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Independent Lens Season 24 Episodes
Season 24 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 2022 - 2023
Episode 1
Hazing
Mon, Sep 12, 2022 120 mins
Filmmaker Byron Hurt investigates the realities of secret hazing rituals in universities. He tries to uncover the extent of what many fresh college students have to go through to belong, including physical and mental pain, embarrassing experiences, and other abuses.
Episode 2
TikTok, Boom.
Mon, Oct 24, 2022 120 mins
Gen Z influencers and experts help dissect the influential social media platform TikTok.
Episode 3
Move Me
Mon, Nov 7, 2022 120 mins
After an accident left dancer Kelsey Peterson paralyzed, she finds new allies within the Spinal Cord Injury community while testing the limits of her recovery, body, and spirit.
Episode 4
Children of Las Brisas
Mon, Jan 2, 2023 120 mins
In Venezuela, amidst a backdrop of poverty, murder, and corruption, the El Sistema youth orchestra offers children hope and the opportunity to pursue a life of art in spite of the harshness of the society around them. Yet the country's spiraling collapse and political repression threatens the musicians' dreams of a better life.
Episode 5
The Big Payback
Mon, Jan 16, 2023 120 mins
An Evanston, Illinois rookie alderwoman led the passage of the first tax-funded reparations bill for Black Americans. While she and her community struggle with the burden to make restitution for its citizens, a national racial crisis engulfs the country. Will the debt ever be addressed, or is it too late for a reparations movement to finally get the big payback?
Episode 6
No Straight Lines
Mon, Jan 23, 2023 120 mins
Five queer comic book artists journey from the underground comix scene to mainstream acceptance.
Episode 7
The Picture Taker
Mon, Jan 30, 2023 120 mins
The vibrant life of Ernest Withers—civil rights photographer, and FBI informant—was anything but black and white. From his Memphis studio, Withers' nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by decades of secret FBI service revealed only after his death. Was he a friend of the civil rights community, or enemy—or both?
Episode 8
Outta The Muck
Mon, Feb 6, 2023 120 mins
The people of Pahokee rise to celebrate family history and football.
Episode 9
Love in the Time of Fentanyl
Mon, Feb 13, 2023 120 mins
As deaths in Vancouver reach an all-time high, the Overdose Prevention Society opens its doors.
Episode 10
Storming Caesars Palace
Mon, Mar 20, 2023 120 mins
Meeting activist Ruby Duncan, who led a grassroots movement of mothers who challenged presidents, the Vegas mob, and everyday Americans to fight for a universal basic income and rethink their notions of the "welfare queen."
Episode 11
Hidden Letters
Mon, Mar 27, 2023 120 mins
The bonds of sisterhood among women in China are drawn together by a once-secret written language, the only script designed and used exclusively by women.
Episode 12
Free Chol Soo Lee
Mon, Apr 24, 2023 120 mins
Sentenced to life for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement, which included Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans, helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside California state prisons, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him.
Episode 13
Matter of Mind: My ALS
Mon, May 1, 2023 120 mins
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neuromuscular disease with an average survival time of 2-5 years from diagnosis. In this intimate exploration, three people with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, bravely face different paths as they live with this progressively debilitating illness.
Episode 14
Sam Now
Mon, May 8, 2023 120 mins
In this coming-of-age documentary about generational trauma, follow Sam Harkness from age 11 to 36 as his middle-class Seattle family is heartbroken and unsure of what to do after his mother suddenly leaves them. Woven together with home movies lovingly crafted by Sam's half brother, director Reed Harkness, witness a boy grow up grappling with the ripple effects of a singular traumatic event.
Episode 15
Silent Beauty
Mon, May 15, 2023 120 mins
In this autobiographical exploration of survivorship, New Orleans journalist and filmmaker Jasmin Mara López unabashedly shares her process of healing from childhood sexual abuse. After Jasmin discloses to her family she'd been abused by her grandfather, she liberates others to come forward in a story of confronting a culture of silence over generational trauma.
Episode 16
Mama Bears
Tue, Jun 20, 2023 120 mins
Even though they grew up as fundamentalist evangelical Christians, these mothers are now willing to risk losing friends, family, and faith communities to keep their kids safe.
