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‘We Want The Funk,’ ‘And So It Begins’ And More Coming To Public Television’s ‘Independent Lens’ This Spring
'Independent Lens' has announced its spring lineup, featuring 'We Want the Funk!,' 'A Thousand Cuts,' 'Free for All: The Public Library' and more.
The documentary, featuring James Brown, George Clinton, Questlove, David Bowie, and Elton John, explores “the funk genre’s influence on contemporary music, fashion, freedom of expression, and its role in the rise of hip-hop.” Scroll for the full spring IL lineup. Her 2020 film A Thousand Cuts chronicled the fight for press freedom by Nobel Peace Prize winner and journalist Maria Ressa, who came under attack during the presidency of right-wing populist leader Rodrigo Duterte. – May 19 – After a long career as a commercial and portrait photographer, mischievous San Francisco artist Michael Jang sat for decades on a hidden treasure of pictures taken in his 20s—both candid celebrity shots and a down-to-earth cross-section of Chinese American family life rarely captured so playfully.
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