Independent Lens - Season 4

Independent Lens - Season 4

Season 4

Network
DatesFeb 4, 2003 - Jun 3, 2003
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Episodes

Maggie Growls
Season 4Episode 160 min

Maggie Growls

Feb 4, 2003
Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story
Season 4Episode 260 min

Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story

“Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story,” a wry exploration of the industry in which record producers set amateurs' poems to music and record them (for a fee, of course). Included are interviews with producers, performers, observers and people who have submitted their poems for musical adaptation. And there's a sampling of the results (examples include “Non-Violent Tae-kwon-do Trooper” and “I Am a Ginseng Digger”). Most songs are “in one ear and out the other,” says musician Ellery Eskelin (the son of a song-poem “auteur”). But, he adds, “There's the 10 or 20 percent that are from another planet.”
Feb 11, 2003
On This Island
Season 4Episode 360 min

On This Island

On an isolated Maine island of 350 people, a clash over arts education spins out of control into vandalism and death threats, tearing apart friends and neighbors. Sigourney Weaver narrates this program following a former Broadway producer as he creates a musical to help the community heal its wounds through songs about lobstering, loneliness and the beauty of the sea.
Feb 18, 2003
Downside Up
Season 4Episode 460 min

Downside Up

Since the 1980s, the rural working class town of North Adams, Massachusetts, has struggled to kick-start its economy following the mill closings. This program explores how, with the 1999 opening of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the town has united its blue collar base with visionaries from the art world to reinvent itself in the post-industrial economy.
Feb 25, 2003
Los Trabajadores / The Workers
Season 4Episode 560 min

Los Trabajadores / The Workers

Mar 25, 2003
Chiefs
Season 4Episode 660 min

Chiefs

Apr 1, 2003
Strange Fruit
Season 4Episode 760 min

Strange Fruit

Apr 8, 2003
Bird by Bird with Annie
Season 4Episode 860 min

Bird by Bird with Annie

Apr 22, 2003
Sisters in Resistance
Season 4Episode 960 min

Sisters in Resistance

Apr 29, 2003
Heart of the Sea
Season 4Episode 1060 min

Heart of the Sea

Heart of the Sea is an hour-long documentary about Hawaiian legend Rell “Kapolioka'ehukai” Sunn who died in January 1998 of breast cancer at the age of 47. Known worldwide as a pioneer of women’s professional surfing, in the Islands Rell Sunn achieved the stature of an icon — not only for her physical power, grace and luminous beauty, but for her leadership in a community that loved her as much as she loved it. Named one of Hawai’i’s most influential women of the 20th century by ABC television, Sunn - whose Hawaiian name means Heart of the Sea - was eulogized in the New York Times for having “captured the heart of Hawai’i during a 14-year battle with cancer.”
May 6, 2003
Guns & Mothers
Season 4Episode 1160 min

Guns & Mothers

May 13, 2003
Razing Appalachia
Season 4Episode 1260 min

Razing Appalachia

May 20, 2003
Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer
Season 4Episode 1360 min

Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer

May 27, 2003
Daddy & Papa
Season 4Episode 1460 min

Daddy & Papa

Daddy & Papa is a one-hour documentary film made by producer/director Johnny Symons in 2002, it explores same-sex parenting as seen in the lives of four families headed by male couples. The film also examines the legal, social, and political challenges faced by gay parents and their children.
Jun 3, 2003

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