Tag: Independent Lens
In radio appearance, ‘Citizen Koch’ filmmakers allege self-censorship in public TV
The filmmakers behind a new documentary briefly discussed their “deeply troubling” experience with public TV in an appearance on public radio’s On Point Wednesday. Tia ...AFI Docs festival screens diverse pubTV films
Public TV was less visible at this year's American Film Institute documentary festival. Yet several of the 10 films that had received ...Independent Lens, WNYC and NPR among pubmedia’s 2012 Peabody winners
Judges in the 72nd annual Peabody competition selected winners as “the best in electronic media for the year 2012,” including PBS programs ...Portrait of a ‘Kind Hearted Woman’ as she finds her voice
Kind-Hearted Woman, David Sutherland's latest documentary series for Frontline is a five-hour story of abuse and triumph for a Native American woman. His meticulous techniques ...Mr. Cao Goes to Washington balances on the bipartisan fence
S. Leo Chiang's latest documentary examines partisanship and race “through the eyes of an idealist centrist who happens to be an Asian-American ...POV captures five of PBS’s nine news and documentary Emmys
PBS topped all the other broadcast networks, as runners-up ABC and CBS each won seven. POV’s “Last Train Home,” a film about Chinese ...Great Expectations exceeds expectations by winning four of PBS’s 11 Creative Arts Primetime Emmys
As a Masterpiece production competing against other miniseries, movies and specials, Great Expectations received Emmys for outstanding achievement in costume design (Annie Symons, Yvonne Duckett), art direction ...Film captures a city in turmoil, recovery
Producers of the documentary As Goes Janesville found themselves, quite by accident, in the midst of three national news stories during filming.Treaty puts indie films in Monday slot
Independent Lens and POV, the PBS series at the center of a dispute about public TV’s commitment to independent film, are moving to Monday nights, ...StoryCorps’ multiplatform production on the anniversary of 9/11 earned a prize for public radio and ...
The Peabody-winning segment aired on NPR’s Morning Edition and featured interviews that had been adapted as animated shorts for PBS’s POV. The award, one ...PBS weighs new night for Indie Lens, POV, after uproar
PBS has agreed to consider “alternative scheduling options” for the independent production showcases Independent Lens and POV, which lost carriage and audience after the network moved ...Indie docs lose viewers, carriage as they’re moved to Thursdays
The shift of Independent Lens from Tuesdays to Thursdays this season has created ratings and carriage woes for the indie-doc showcase.George Foster Peabody Awards for 2009
Producers for public broadcasting — and developers for its websites — received 14 Peabody Awards, announced March 31, 2010 Regarding websites, ...
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