Adrienne Becker

CEO, Co-Founder at Level Forward

Girl Callin'

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Level Forward

The film follows an American woman anthropologist working in Iraq for The Human Terrain System, a real-life military initiative created to bridge the "cultural divide," who befriend a Muslim-Iraqi woman but has to choose between her friendship and her loyalty to her country.

Human Terrain

A Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.

Mountains

Clemence returns home after dropping out of college with a newly diagnosed mental illness.

The Year Between

An examination of how the nude female body is hypersexualized, under attack and exploited on and off screen in Hollywood.

Body Parts

An inspiring look at Alderman Robin Rue Simmons' fight to redress the wrongs of "redlining" and the legacy of slavery through a groundbreaking reparations program in Evanston, Illinois.

The Big Payback

Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented communities and universal challenges found across America. The series has been awarded numerous Emmys and Peabodys, and has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards.

Independent Lens

Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home.

Topside

A look at Los Angeles's Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, nuns who challenged the patriarchal conventions of the Catholic Church 50 years ago and are still taking a stand today.

Rebel Hearts

To pay for her education, and the chance of a better life, a young woman joins a dangerous scrap metal crew.

Holler

Doretha goes out for her evening drink at her local watering hole when a news story dredges up old memories.

Doretha's Blues

Inspired by the headline-dominating kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst in 1974, this atmospheric drama is a fictionalized re-imagining of her time in hiding, from the perspective of Jenny, a political activist assigned to take care of her.

American Woman

In June 2019, arranger and composer Kim Scharnberg gathered sixty-six of the finest trumpet players in Los Angeles and New York City to record a new version of "Shine," the anthem written by Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Pena, two student survivors of the Parkland, FL mass shooting.

Instrument of Hope

Disillusioned Jack works the night shift at a freezing facility where people choose to halt their lives. One night, he meets Jo, a terminally ill girl being unfrozen early due to lack of funds.

Jack and Jo Don't Want to Die

Sara's bachelorette party is all shots and cigarettes, until she and her maid of honor, Marie, get a call to report for active duty that threatens the wedding plans.

Wingmen

Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.

Tower

It's one thing to be a girl in a sea of boys, discussing topics that girls are generally not expected to know about: computer science and engineering, pneumatics and computer assisted design. But that was the experience of a few girls at Bronx Science High School who had decided to be bold, and join the school's robotics team just a few years ago.

Iron Maidens

What happens when ambition blinds morality? For three long years a struggling documentary filmmaker tries to unravel the poetic allure behind suicideand for three long years he has failed. But now, with a new subject to couple with his deranged sense of determination, he will stop at nothing to "witness with the lens that ultimate decision that is made in those fin...