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On the Scene at a War Criminal’s Conviction
August 11, 2010The ITVS-funded film-in-progress Comrade Duch tells the story of the gifted Cambodian mathematician turned mass killer Kaing Guek Eav and the trial to bring him to justice. Filmmaker Adrian Maben was outside the courtroom last month when Duch was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 35 years in prison. When I started to work on…
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Revisiting Sentenced Home and the Case of Many Uch
August 10, 2010Sentenced Home aired back in 2007 on Independent Lens and put a human face on a controversial immigration policy. The film followed three young Cambodian Americans, raised in inner-city Seattle, each of whom faced deportation for mistakes they made as teenagers. Filmmakers Nicole Newnham and David Grabias provide an update on the case of Many Uch, one…
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On the Road: ITVS Represented at DocMontevideo
August 9, 2010Last month, ITVS’s Vice President of Programming Claire Aguilar attended DocMontevideo in Montevideo, Uruguay and filed this report. Montevideo, Uruguay, — a European-style city between Argentina and Brazil — is a unique and surprising place for a television documentary conference. Since Uruguay has been in the news recently — they took a…
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Thunder in Guyana Strikes Global Voices
August 6, 2010How did a 77-year-old Jewish woman from Chicago become the president of a South American country? In Thunder in Guyana, airing this Sunday on Global Voices on PBS WORLD, filmmaker Suzanne Wasserman offers a compelling explanation. Wasserman grew up fascinated by her glamorous cousin Janet, a Chicago native, who at 23 fell in love with a handsome dental…
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New Independent Lens Season Unveiled in L.A.
August 5, 2010Lois Vossen, series producer for Independent Lens, reports from the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Los Angeles. Hello from the Television Critics Association (TCA) Summer Press Tour. The TCA represents 200 journalists who write about television for print and online outlets in the U.S. and Canada. Twice a year, they gather in what Tim…