371 productions

Monday, March 23, 2015 3:00 pm

Chicago Cultural Center - GAR Hall and Rotunda

77 East Randolph Street

Chicago, IL

The Indie Caucus, along with WTTW, WNET, PBS, POV, Independent Lens, and ITVS, will be in Chicago for the third and final stop in the National Listening Tour for Independent Films on PBS.

Hosted by
Kartemquin Films,
371 Productions,
Chicago Film Office, and
City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events

Make your voice heard on the last stop of the PBS Listening Tour in Chicago. This is your chance to help set the priorities and share ideas around strengthening viewership, distribution, and community engagement of independent film.

It's our final chance to be heard. We need YOU to be there and to speak up. Please rsvp here: https://pbslisteningtourchicago.eventbrite.com

If you are in or around Chicago, please join this important conversation.

Watch As Goes Janesville tonight on PBS

October 8, 2012 12:02 pm

We hope you will join us in watching As Goes Janesville tonight at 10pm on PBS Independent Lens.

The New York Times' rave review for the film calls it "an up-close view of one of the meanest and most dramatic chapters in recent American politics: the battle over collective-bargaining rights for Wisconsin state employees and the subsequent effort to recall the Republican governor, Scott Walker, from office." The version you'll see tonight is the streamlined cut made for TV, which the Times' Mike Hale says "has a narrative drive unusual for a 60-minute television documentary, pulling us along like a political thriller."

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As Goes Janesville demo is major news

May 11, 2012 7:53 pm

The documentary story of the day is also the political story of the day. A scene in Brad Lichtenstein and Nicole Docta’s As Goes Janesville has been making waves across the media since it was released Thursday evening, as part of a longer "demo" for the soon to be completed film.

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