The News and Documentary Emmy nominations are in and several Independent Lens docs and ITVS-funded films have been recognized. You can find a complete list of all the nominated films after the jump.
Congratulations to the filmmakers!
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Art in the Shadow of Extremism
The Desert of Forbidden Art, airing Tuesday at 10PM on Independent Lens provides viewers with some of the art world’s best-kept secrets.
Stalin consolidated his 1950′s post-war power by declaring all modernist art “decadent” and “bourgeois.” Those caught practicing it were sent to the gulag, or executed.
So archaeologist Igor Savitsky began his heroic quest to save 44,000 pieces of forbidden art from the masters of Russian modernism by squirreling them away in an Uzbek museum, far from the eyes of the KGB.
The Desert of Forbidden Art Opens in New York
Documentary on Russian Art will air April 5 on Independent Lens
The Desert of Forbidden Art, by filmmakers Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev tells the incredible story about a group of visionary Soviet-era artists and one man who risked his life to rescue their work.
Coming to Independent Lens on April 5, the documentary has its theatrical release in New York starting on Friday at the Cinema Village.
For background, check out this recent feature in The New York Times.
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