Third World Newsreel is pleased to announce our Fall Evening Seminars. Our first virtual seminars featured a conversation with pioneer indie filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira (now on Vimeo) followed by a talk with Emmy-nominated editor Carla Gutierrez. We continue with Iris Morales, Stanley Nelson, and Ann Bennett.

AND SO I STAYED is an award-winning documentary about survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and spending years behind bars. This is the story of how the legal system gets domestic violence wrong.

Hear from Ann Bennett, a long-time producer/filmmaker whose specialty has been archival research for the many historical documentaries she has worked on for PBS, HBO, and others. How should you go about planning your search, how should you be keeping track, and what's a methodological approach to getting rights - or determining if you need to?

Viewers Like Us, a new podcast hosted by TWN Graduate Grace Lee, documents the growing disconnect between PBS’s founding mission and the increasingly diverse public it was created to serve. This series unearths the rhyming history within the public broadcasting system, explores who gets to tell America’s stories, and envisions what the future could look like if PBS centered a diversity of experiences and perspectives. Following 2020’s intersecting racial and social reckonings across all corners of the country, Viewers Like Us aims to break a decades-long cycle of inertia when it comes to advancing and sustaining true equity and inclusion throughout public media. The podcast stems from provocations raised by series host Grace Lee, a Peabody-winning independent filmmaker who called out PBS’s overreliance on documentarian Ken Burns in a fall 2020 essay for the Ford Foundation, and raised the necessity of more than one lens on America’s multitude of stories.

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