{"id":4791,"date":"2012-12-06T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2012-12-18T19:30:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T19:30:04","slug":"its-been-a-great-week-for-independent-lens","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/its-been-a-great-week-for-independent-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Been a Great Week for Independent Lens!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/thompsononhollywood\/academy-reveals-best-documentary-shortlist-invisible-war-house-i-live-in-sugar-man-the-imposter-more\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"btb_oscarshortlist\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beyondthebox.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/btb_oscarshortlist.jpg\" width=\"581\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a week for\u00a0<em>Independent Lens<\/em>! First the Sundance Film Festival\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/thompsononhollywood\/sundance-2013-premieres-doc-lineup-including-before-midnight-stoker-the-east-lovelace\" target=\"_blank\">announced the lineup for 2013<\/a>. Then\u00a0<em>Time <\/em>magazine\u00a0showed <em>The Invisible War\u00a0<\/em>some major love in its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.time.com\/2012\/12\/04\/top-10-arts-lists\/slide\/the-invisible-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTop Movies of 2012<\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s the only documentary on the list!<\/p>\n<p>And now\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/thompsononhollywood\/academy-reveals-best-documentary-shortlist-invisible-war-house-i-live-in-sugar-man-the-imposter-more\">Academy Awards shortlist<\/a>\u00a0is out with some films that are very near and dear to our hearts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentaries Screening Committee has selected a shortlist of 15 films that are contenders for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.\u00a0With more than 126 films in contention for the Oscar, we are over the moon that several of the 15 are\u00a0<em>Independent Lens<\/em>\u00a0films.\u00a0We&#8217;re so proud of our filmmakers!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a list of super strong films. Which five films do you think (or hope) will be nominated on January 10th for the 85th Academy Awards? How many <em>Independent Lens<\/em> films will make it to the red carpet and beyond on February 24? Will we hear the name of one of our beloved films called out that night? Stay tuned! You know <em>we<\/em> will!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here&#8217;s the shortlist:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 25px;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Ai Weiwei\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/ai-weiwei\/\"><em>Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Bully<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Chasing Ice<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itvs.org\/films\/detropia\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Detropia<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Ethel<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>5 Broken Cameras<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Gatekeepers<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itvs.org\/films\/ghetto\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The House I Live In<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>How to Survive a Plague<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Imposter<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itvs.org\/films\/invisible-war\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Invisible War<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Searching for Sugar Man<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>This Is Not a Film<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itvs.org\/films\/waiting-room\" target=\"_blank\">The Waiting Room<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you could vote for just one of these, which would it be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a week for\u00a0Independent Lens! First the Sundance Film Festival\u00a0announced the lineup for 2013. Then\u00a0Time magazine\u00a0showed The Invisible War\u00a0some major love in its\u00a0\u201cTop Movies of 2012.&#8221; It&#8217;s the only documentary on the list! And now\u00a0the\u00a0Academy Awards shortlist\u00a0is out with some films that are very near and dear to our hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1237],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-4791","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-awards"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s Been a Great Week for Independent Lens! - Independent Lens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/its-been-a-great-week-for-independent-lens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s Been a Great Week for Independent Lens! - Independent Lens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What a week for\u00a0Independent Lens! 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