Press Releases
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Doc, Acclaimed Film about Novelist and ’60s Icon Doc Humes to Have Television Premiere on the Emmy® Award–Winning PBS Series Independent Lens, Tuesday, December 9, 2008, at 10pm
November 5, 2008Visit the companion website >> “He was brilliant. He was one of the few people I have ever met who was essentially, at bottom, more vain, more intellectually arrogant, than I was.” —Norman Mailer “I didn’t know whether to kiss him or kill him!” —William Styron (San Francisco CA)—DOC is an unorthodox portrait of the life and times of the almost…
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Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic, a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of a Grand Opera about Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb
November 5, 2008Visit the companion website >> “Art and science form a combustible fusion in Jon Else’s elegant and wide-ranging WONDERS ARE MANY: The Making of Doctor Atomic. A dazzling case of the right filmmaker attached to the right subject.” —Robert Koehler, Variety “Enthralling … a profound and sorrowful meditation on warfare, the possibility of nuclear…
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Operation Filmmaker to Air Nationally on PBS Series Independent Lens Tuesday, December 30, 2008
November 5, 2008Visit the companion website >> “Fascinatingly complicated … encapsulates the entire situation between America and Iraq.” —Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe (San Francisco, CA)—OPERATION FILMMAKER tells the complex, funny, sad and insightful story about what happens when some well-intentioned Hollywood insiders try to intervene in the life…
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Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway, Produced by East of Doheny, to Have Its Broadcast Premiere on the PBS Series Independent Lens Tuesday, December 23, 2008
November 5, 2008Visit the companion website >> (San Francisco, CA)—Captured in the landmark 1975 Maysles’ Brothers film Grey Gardens, the indomitable Edith Beale and her daughter, Edie, aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, respectively, were revealed to have a most unique and engaging mother-daughter relationship, built upon powerful…
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Narcotic Farm Tells the Fascinating and Untold Story of a Unique Federal Prison and U.S. Public Health Service’s 40-Year-Long Experiment There to Discover a Cure for Drug Addiction
October 8, 2008(San Francisco)—From its opening in 1935, the United States Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, epitomized the nation’s ambivalence about how to deal with drug addiction. On one hand, it functioned as a compassionate and humane hospital, an “asylum on the hill” on 1,000 acres of farmland where addicts could recover from their drug habits. On the other…