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Oscar-Nominated Waste Land Heads to Independent Lens
February 28, 2011Director Lucy Walker attended Sunday night’s academy awards as one of five films nominated for Best Documentary Feature Lucy Walker and the Waste Land crew were on hand for last night’s 83rd Annual Academy Award ceremony in Los Angeles. The award for Best Documentary Feature was eventually dealt out to Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs for Inside Job. As we…
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San Francisco Gets a Peek at Academy Award-Nominated Waste Land
February 18, 2011Filmmaker Lucy Walker attended a screening in SF on Wednesday Lucy Walker’s Oscar-nominated doc Waste Land will have its broadcast premiere April 19 on Independent Lens on PBS, but San Francisco got a sneak peak this week in an exclusive screening and reception. ITVS co-hosted a screening of Waste Land this past Wednesday as the film and its director Lucy…
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ITVS in the News
February 4, 2011A SAMPLING OF COVERAGE FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, CBS NEWS, NPR AND MORE...New York Times: Documentary Drama at the Oscars Instead the contenders are mostly smaller films from lesser-known filmmakers: Waste Land, about the artist Vik Muniz, set against the backdrop of a massive garbage dump in Rio de Janeiro... with most of the feature film and acting…
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Waste Land Nominated for Academy Award
January 25, 2011The nominations for the 83rd annual Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning from the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Los Angeles. Among the nominees for best documentary feature was Lucy Walker's Waste Land, which premiers this April on Independent Lens.The other films nominated for best documentary feature include: Exit through the Gift Shop,…
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Art Films from Independent Lens on Display at TCA
January 7, 2011This weekend, Independent Lens will prominently feature three art-related programs at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in Pasadena, California. Building on the system-wide arts programming initiative led by PBS, the panel presentation represents three of four films to premiere in April 2011 on Independent Lens as part of Artist…