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03/12/2010
About.com: Great Documentaries on Independent Lens in April
Mark your calendars now with reminders to watch the four great documentaries airing on PBS' Independent Lens, Tuesdays at 10 PM EST (check local listings).

03/12/2010
Hispanic Magazine: Confronting a Painful Past From Behind a Camera
As she explored the family’s secrets, [filmmaker Monika Navarro of Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)], edited them into a film that reflects the frailties of every American family.

03/11/2010
The Documentary Blog: ITVS Launches FUTURESTATES: Werner Herzog Voices a Plastic Bag
So…sort of like Demolition Man and Back to the Future 2, only shorter.

03/10/2010
Boise Weekly: Dirt! The Movie and Under Great White Northern Lights
The aptly titled Dirt! The Movie, directed by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow and narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, examines both the importance of soil as a source of fertility and the negative consequences that come from mucking up the dirt we've got--drought, climate change and even war.

03/09/2010
Audubon Magazine: Dirt! The Movie
Toss the tea leaves; we can read our future in dirt—and the outlook is grimy.

03/08/2010
The New York Times: For Web and Public TV, Brief Films That Dramatize Issues
Beginning on Monday, the organization will present a series of brief, fictional films that cast social issues into the future, in the hopes of drawing a younger audience not necessarily interested in public television.

03/08/2010
KABC-TV (Los Angeles): Green Right Now: A Documentary About Egypt’s ‘Garbage People’; a Lesson in Recycling
But this is not a tale of squalor and desperation.

03/07/2010
CBS 5 (San Francisco): Independent Lens
Vice President and Independent Lens series producer Lois Vossen discusses the upcoming broadcasts Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas) and Whatever It Takes.

03/05/2010
The Epoch Times: The Eyes of Me
[Director Keith] Maitland very definitely humanizes his four primary subjects—warts and all. They are not tragic figures of nobility. They are just kids, though in some cases they have major issues.

03/04/2010
Organic Gardening Magazine: The Dirt on Dirt [PDF]
The documentary [Dirt! The Movie] explores this unappreciated and finite resource, and the myriad ways it sustains us even as we take it for granted.

03/02/2010
Hartford Courant (CT): What's on Television
The lives of four students at the Texas School for the Blind in Austin, Texas, are chronicled in Keith Maitland's film The Eyes of Me premiering on Independent Lens; filming for over a year, we see distinct personalities appear, and what they see in their mind animated for the film.

03/01/2010
The Week: Guide to What's Worth Watching [PDF]
This touching documentary [The Eyes of Me] follows four teens through a year at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Austin.

02/28/2010
Columbia Daily Tribune (MO): Picturing a Better Vision
Filmmaker Laura Poitras traveled to Yemen searching for a person who was returning from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

02/27/2010
Lexington Herald Leader (KY): The Art of Recycling
[Dirt! The Movie] is not so much about soil teeming with billions of life forms in each spoonful as it is an effort by an international team of environmental activists to point out that some practices deplete natural resources, and to explain the urgency of the need to develop a "greener" food supply.

02/26/2010
Fort Worth Star Telegram: Lives of Four Blind Teens Fascinate Documentary Maker
"I realized very quickly that I had a lot of misconceptions about what it means to be a blind teen-ager and what blind people's experience was like," [The Eyes of Me director Keith] Maitland says. "Here's a community of teenagers that isn't really understood, if they're thought of at all."

02/24/2010
San Antonio Express News: Seeing What Blind Youth's 'See' in Life
[The Eyes of Me] follows four students at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a public residential school in Austin, for a year. Viewers see the students in class, at work, participating in extracurricular activities and forming friendships.

02/22/2010
Exceptional Parent Magazine: The Eyes of Me [PDF]
The Eyes of Me is an eye-opening film that beautifully depicts four human beings doing the best they can to make it in a difficult world.

02/19/2010
Philadelphia Daily News: The Eyes of Me Transcends Blindness, Encourages Understanding
The Independent Lens program, The Eyes of Me was screened to over 65 cities this month as part of ITVS's Community Cinema.

02/17/2010
MSN.com: The Best Shows on TV You're (Probably) Not Watching
Why pay $10 for a movie ticket when you can watch some of the finest films the cinema has to offer for free -- and from the comfort of your couch.

02/16/2010
United Feature Syndicate: Mine
Geralyn Pezanoski's Mine explores the vital bond between humans and animals, as well as issues of race and class, as demonstrated in the desperate attempts by hurricane victims to find and reunite with their pets.

02/16/2010
Bloomberg Business Week: Paddling Beagle Triumphs Over Katrina’s Canine Catastrophes: TV
[Mine] director Geralyn Pezanoski focuses on several residents who lost their dogs (sorry, no cat tales here), including Malvin Cavalier, whose miniature poodle Bandit was left home alone.

02/16/2010
The New York Times: Mine
In this Independent Lens presentation, Ms. Pezanoski tells the story of some pet owners struggling to find their companions and bring them home —like Malvin Cavalier, who had to leave his dog behind when he sought shelter in the Superdome.

02/16/2010
Mental_Floss: Tonight on PBS: Katrina’s Lost Dogs
It’s a complicated and emotional film, examining a series of pet-related issues that arose after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

02/16/2010
The Pet Show: Mine
Filmmaker Geralyn Pezanoski discusses the Independent Lens program Mine.

02/16/2010
WMNF-Tampa: Talking Animals
Filmmaker Geralyn Pezanoski discusses the Independent Lens program Mine.

02/15/2010
PBS Engage: The Hot List
Home can also be a sentimental feeling, an uplifting hope, or a heartache. This week on PBS, we take you on journeys home, in every sense of the word.

02/15/2010
Aarff.com: Must See Katrina Documentary Airs on PBS
If you ever questioned the strong bond between pets and humans, you won’t ever again after seeing Mine.

02/13/2010
Ottawa Citizen: Bringing Bandit Home
[Mine] is a complicated tale of betrayal, ownership issues, lawsuits and heartache, and examines the strong bond between pets and their owners.

02/12/2010
The Week: Guide to What's Worth Watching: Mine [PDF]
This poignant documentary tells how many of the pets were saved, only to become pawns in heart-wrenching custody battles between their original owners and their new ones.

02/09/2010
Chicago Tribune: P-Star on PBS: The Rise of a Young Rap Star
It's hard to imagine that a teenage girl, who performed raps on nightclub stages at 9 years old, would be anxious about showcasing her rhymes among peers.

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