
The new season premieres October 19, opening with Arthur Jones’ Sundance hit Feels Good Man, followed by Hillary Bachelder’s Represent, an intimate look at three first-time female political candidates as they campaign for different offices. Next is Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip, the directorial debut of the famed HGTV Property Brothers personality. Finally, Belly of the Beast, from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director and producer Erika Cohn, takes viewers behind prison walls for an unflinching look inside the criminal justice system.
“The new season of Independent Lens features a rich variety of films, each telling timely and fascinating stories that raise critically important questions that reflect the times in which we’re living,” said Lois Vossen, Executive Producer of Independent Lens. “This season we explore the most extreme, hateful corners of the internet, as well as what it takes for women to pursue public office. We see the horrors faced by female inmates in today’s correctional system, and exactly what and who is stifling the growth of renewable energy in this country. These impressive films delve deep into the most pressing issues facing our nation, through the eyes of some of the most talented and incisive documentary filmmakers working today.”
There will be plenty more coming, too, in a bold, award-winning slate of films airing on PBS in the Spring which will be detailed here soon.
Independent Lens films have won 25 Emmy Awards, 23 Peabody Awards, five duPont-Columbia University Awards, and have received 10 Academy Award nominations. Independent Lens won the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017 International Documentary Association (IDA) Award for Best Continuing Series.
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