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This week’s financial news is perhaps a good argument against a hybrid digital-and-tangential asset model, but here at Film Independent we’re not worried

From Succession to Mr In Between, the best in television this year offered ingenuity, humour, defiance and hope.

From Bo Burnham to “We Are Lady Parts,” the best in television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope.

The Gotham Film & Media Institute (The Gotham)  announced the winners of the 31st Annual Gotham Awards at a ceremony held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on November 29.

We love a season preview, dont get us wrong. But when the question youre asked most frequently is "What should I be watching right now?" looking to the future has

LaTonya Myers (Credit: Yoni Brook) LaTonya “T.” Myers, Activist and Bail Navigator, Defender Association  Formerly incarcerated person-turned-activist and the first-ever Bail Navigator for the Defender Association of Philadelphia, a position to help those arrested navigate the bail review system.  Prior to joining the Defender Association, Myers’s life was upended while she sat in jail saddled with a $1,500 bail that she couldn’t afford to pay. She’d been in and out of the system fo...

Review: In ‘Philly D.A.,’ a Reformer Prosecutes the System The gripping PBS documentary series is a richly detailed look at what happens when an idealist gets actual power. “Philly D.A.” tracks the reform efforts of Larry Krasner, center, a civil rights lawyer turned district attorney in Philadelphia.Credit...Yoni Brook/PBS Philly D.A. NYT Critics Pick “Philly D.A.,” a new documentary series from “Independent Lens” on PBS, never steps inside a courtroom. ...

PHILLY D.A., PREMIERING APRIL 20, 2021 Docuseries set in the office of the Philadelphia District Attorney over course of three years follows unapologetic reformer Larry Krasner and his team as they transform the criminal justice system from the inside “Philly D.A.” marks INDEPENDENT LENS’ most ambitious episodic project to date   PBS’s Emmy-Award winning documentary anthology series INDEPENDENT LENS announced that “Philly D.A.”, a groundbreaking docuseries from PBS and ITVS, will p...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Even before the 2020 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, attempts at criminal justice reform were beginning to take root, including in Philadelphia with the 2017 election of civil rights attorney Larry Krasner as