SPACE: THE LONGEST GOODBYE: Filmmaker Ido Mizrahy, astronaut Cady Coleman, subject Jamey Simpson on new documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/03/2024
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SPACE: THE LONGEST GOODBYE premieres on PBS’s INDEPENDENT LENS on Monday, May 6, and is now available to stream on the PBS app and on PBS’s YouTube channel. Directed by Ido Mizrahy, the documentary examines the effects of long space missions on both the astronauts and the families they leave at home. Mizrahy’s previous projects include the narrative feature THINGS THAT HANG FROM TREES and the documentary GORED. During PBS’s portion of the Winter 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in Pasadena, SPACE: THE LONGEST GOODBYE director Mizrahi, chemist and former NASA astronaut Catherine Grace “Cady” Coleman, who was […]Read On »


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SAM NOW: Filmmaker Reed Harness discusses his family documentary mystery – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/02/2023
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SAM NOW is a multi-award-winning documentary that has its television premiere Monday, May 8, on INDEPENDENT LENS on PBS. Filmmaker Reed Harkness began making short films featuring his younger half-brother Sam Harkness when Sam was eleven. These shorts often featured Sam as the character the Blue Panther. Sam’s mother mother Jois (pronounced Joyce) had divorced Reed and Sam’s father Randy Harkness and remarried. When Sam was fourteen, Jois disappeared. But SAM NOW is not a true crime story. Reed and Sam Harkness set out on a road trip to find Jois when Sam was seventeen. What they found shows family, […]Read On »


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FREE CHOL SOO LEE: Filmmakers and activists Julie Ha, Eugene Yi, Gail Whang and Ranko Yamada on new PBS doc – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/24/2023
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Chol Soo Lee was a young Korean immigrant living in San Francisco’s Chinatown when he was arrested on June 7, 1973, and subsequently convicted, for the murder of Yip Yee Tak. While in prison, Lee was given the death penalty for the killing of a fellow inmate, although Lee claimed self-defense. In June of 1977, reporter K.W. Lee (no relation to Chol Soo), after hearing from young Asian-American activists, began investigating the case for a series of articles in the SACRAMENTO UNION. K.W. Lee found facts that strongly suggested that Chol Soo Lee had been wrongly targeted for the murder […]Read On »


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HAZING: Filmmaker Byron Hurt and survivor Brent McClanahan II on new documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/08/2022
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“Hazing,” the term for initiation rites to college fraternities and sororities, is viewed by many as a stressful but playful rite of passage. Instead, it is often violent, humiliating, sometimes even lethal. HAZING, a documentary by filmmaker Byron Hurt, premieres on PBS’s INDEPENDENT LENS on Monday, September 12. Hurt, who has been through the fraternity system and was both in turn hazed and a hazer, now condemns the practice. In his film, Hurt speaks with survivors of hazing, and with friends and family of those who died. There are cases of beating-caused deaths and paralysis, a drowning none of the […]Read On »


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