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(San Francisco, CA)—NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY: Laszlo & Vilmos follows the lives of renowned cinematographers Laszlo Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond from their escape of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary to the present day. An Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, James Chressanthis’s NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY will air nationally on the Emmy®…

(San Francisco, CA)—OBJECTIFIED, by acclaimed filmmaker Gary Hustwit, gives new meaning to the term “intelligent design.” The second installment in Hustwit’s trilogy on design (the first was HELVETICA), OBJECTIFIED examines the hundreds of items we touch and use every day without giving a single thought to the people who created them. Who makes all…

(San Francisco, CA)—The Emmy® Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens announced today that critically acclaimed actress Maggie Gyllenhaal will host the upcoming 2009/2010 season, making her debut when the series premieres on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 10 PM (check local listings). Past seasons of Independent Lens have been presented by…

More information about the program >> (San Francisco, CA) – In 1936, General Francisco Franco led a coup d' etat against the Spanish Republic that gave rise to a brutal civil war. During his long dictatorship, hundreds of people were arrested, executed or disappeared. Today, family members of those who vanished have begun to look for their…

(San Francisco, CA)—Do you have to be a Medici or a Rockefeller to collect art? Not according to Herb and Dorothy Vogel. As the series opener for the 2009/2010 season of PBS’s acclaimed Independent Lens, Megumi Sasaki’s delightful documentary HERB & DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of Herb, a high school dropout and postal clerk, and Dorothy, a…