Independent Lens is packing up and heading down to Austin for what’s going to be our busiest SXSW yet. I know, I know, I say that every year. But take a look at what we have in store and you’ll see ...

A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white male-dominated status quo to launch news startup The 19th*. The feature documentary takes the viewer inside the newsroom as a group of ...

Independent Lens, the Emmy-winning ITVS series that airs on PBS stations, has acquired TV and digital rights to Nicholas Bruckman’s latest documentary, Minted. The film, which premiered at the 2023 ...

A powerful examination of immigration and incarceration in the United States, Rodrigo Reyes’s award-winning documentary “Sansón and Me” will kick off the new season of PBS’s Emmy®Award-winning ...

EXCLUSIVE: The spring lineup for the Emmy-winning documentary showcase Independent Lens is looking funky, by design. WE WANT THE FUNK!, “a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music” directed ...

INDEPENDENT LENS is launching the new season of Indie Lens Pop-Up, the long-running screening series that brings people together for community-driven conversations around its thought-provoking ...

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