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Central High Hosts a Social Screening of Daisy Bates
On Friday, we’re hosting a screening of the documentary Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. and will include the participation of filmmaker Sharon La Cruise. Moderated by PBS NewsHour‘s Hari Sreenivasan and featuring filmmaker Sharon La Cruise, the event will take place at this link on Friday, February 3 at 11:30 AM PT/1:30 PM CT/2:30 PM ET. Premiering on Independent Lens this Thursday, the film examines the life Daisy Bates — a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegregate the all-white Central High School in Little Rock in 1957.
The screening will take place exclusively online; you can join for free by signing in with Facebook (or directly on the site) and interact with other viewers, Central High students, La Cruise, and Sreenivasan in real-time, while you watch the film. Viewers can comment, ask questions, take polls, and even express their feelings about what they’re watching through a variety of tools on the site.
This is an entirely new way we’re offering some of our documentary films, and all of us are looking forward to an open, freewheeling conversation on Daisy Bates!
Find more information on Friday’s screening here.
Watch Have You Heard from Johannesburg, On-Air and Online
On Thursday, part three and four of Connie Field’s landmark documentary Have You Heard from Johanessburg will broadcast on Independent Lens. An encore social screening will take place next Thursday, January 26 at 12PM PT / 3PM ET. Click here to participate in the interactive screening.
Episodes three and four: From Selma to Soweto and The Bottom Line chronicles the grassroots campaign that targeted Western corporations doing business with the South African regime.
Join us on Friday for the social screening and feel free to ask questions, take polls, and engage.
New App Lends Viewers Journalistic Independence Over Footage
Condition ONE allows viewers to become completely immersed in the event they are watching. Used primarily for the iPad, the application is the brainchild of Hell and Back Again filmmaker and war photographer, Danfung Dennis.
Read a review of the app here.
Watch the trailer of Hell and Back Again, coming to Independent Lens, after the jump.
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Creating a More Diverse Rolodex: Using Social Media As a Sourcing Tool
On his second day on the job, NPR’s new President & CEO Gary Knell tweeted, “Diversity is essential. We must reflect more of America, be accessible & relevant.” One way NPR is increasing diversity is through social media.
Join NPR and NCME on Wednesday, December 14 at 2PM ET / 11AM PT for a webinar on using social media to increase the diversity of your sources. Luis Clemens from NPR will share best practices and discuss the value of developing more diverse sources in journalism. Register now. Find more info on the presenters below the jump.
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Celebrating Native Language Revitalization
Jennifer Weston — researcher and assistant producer of We Still Live Here – Âs Nutayuneân — discusses some engaging features on an interactive website about language reclamation projects called Our Mother Tongues. Weston helped produce the site and manages the Cultural Survival’s Endangered Languages Program. We Still Live Here – Âs Nutayuneân airs beginning Thursday, November 17 on Independent Lens (check local listings).
After providing nearly three years of research and production assistance for the documentary We Still Live Here – Âs Nutayuneân, Cultural Survival’s Endangered Languages Program, Makepeace Productions, Interactive Knowledge, and ITVS have launched a beautiful and inspiring website called Our Mother Tongues, drawing from Cultural Survival’s network of contacts among more than 300 American Indian language programs nationwide.
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Mary-Louise Parker Says: “Join the Club!”
Trouble rallying friends for book club? Mary-Louise Parker invites indie film lovers across the country to rally during PBS broadcasts of Independent Lens under #ILDocClub on twitter. Join the conversation each week with fresh reactions from viewers and some of the most provocative independent filmmakers on the planet.
Up Next on Independent Lens, Deaf Jam
Founding Series Producer of Independent Lens Lois Vossen, sets up the documentary Deaf Jam by filmmaker Judy Lieff.
The film follows Aneta Brodski, a deaf teen living in New York City, as she discovers the power of American Sign Language poetry. As she prepares to be one of the first deaf poets to compete in a spoken-word slam, her journey leads to an unexpected collaboration.
Remember to participate in the Independent Lens film club, while you watch, under #ILDocClub on Twitter.
Tweetback from Donor Unknown via #ILDocClub
Week two of the new Independent Lens #ILDocClub took off last night on twitter, during the PBS broadcast of Donor Unknown.
Be sure to join the conversation next time you’re watching Independent Lens on PBS. For now, scroll through some of the chatter from this week’s episode, below…
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Filmmaker Isaac Solotaroff on Wham! Bam! Islam!
Director Isaac Solotaroff talks about using Wham! Bam! Islam! and the recently released Hunt For the Noor Stone Interactive game to promote cultural understanding.
The interactive game, Hunt for the Noor Stone, just launched and features an in-depth, standards-aligned study guide for middle school students. The inspiration for the game came from THE 99, the comic book series featured in Solotaroff’s documentary Wham! Bam! Islam! which aired on Independent Lens last week, and is currently streaming for free on PBS.org. BTB caught up with Soloratoff last week to ask — why a game, and why now?
Who are you and what do you do?
My name is Isaac Solotaroff and on my good days I get to work on documentaries and on my bad days I try to figure out how to raise money to make documentaries.
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Tweetback from Wham! Bam! Islam! via #ILDocClub
The 10th season of Independent Lens kicked off last night with filmmaker Isaac Solotaroff’s Wham! Bam! Islam! Fans tuned in to watch the journey of THE 99 creator Naif Al-Mutawa and shared their thoughts online, as part of Independent Lens’ new film club at #ILDocClub.
Be sure to join the conversation next time you’re watching Independent Lens on PBS. For now, scroll through some of the chatter from this week’s episode, below…
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