Ken Pelletier

Producer, Entrepreneur, Technologist, Photographer, Musician

Breaking the News chronicles the tenacious efforts of female and nonbinary journalists as they build a journalism "startup" to highlight perspectives left out of mainstream media.

Breaking The News

The story of two Chinese women trying to balance their lives as independent women in modern China while confronting the traditional identity that defines but also oppresses them.

Hidden Letters

A documentary about Cuban scat musician Francisco Fellove.

El Gran Fellove

Fight for Areng Valley

In a country where eligible men greatly outnumber women, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China's most sought-after dating coaches in what may be their last-ditch effort to find love.

The Dating Game

For seven years, award-winning Chinese-American filmmaker Nanfu Wang followed Rosa Maria Paya, daughter of the five time Nobel Peace Prize nominated activist, Oswaldo Paya, in Rosa's fight for democracy.

Night Is Not Eternal

A journey through the beloved world of children's picture books, led by three contemporary stars of the new "golden age" of kids' lit, using, archival access, untapped insights, and stop-motion paper animation to explore timely new work.

Story & Pictures By

Elvis of Cambodia is a feature length documentary film, which celebrates the life and legacy of beloved Cambodian Singer, Sinn Sisamouth.

Elvis of Cambodia

A poet composes a cinematic love letter to his grandmother as his homophobic aunt and drag queen uncle wage war over her estate in Hokes Bluff, Alabama.

Socks on Fire

After a young Chinese student goes missing on an American university campus, her family travels to the U.S. for the first time, hoping to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.

Finding Yingying

The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.

The Apollo

A rag-tag group of undocumented youth - Dreamers - deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.

The Infiltrators

Exploring the subversive political activism and lovesick connection of Michael and Eleanora Kennedy, who represented a who's who of the 1960s' politically subversive class.

Radical Love

This award-winning documentary chronicles the dramatic upbringing of boxing prodigies Kenneth Sims Jr. and Destyne Butler Jr., and their aspirations of surviving on the dangerous South Side of Chicago to achieve boxing glory.

Ringside

After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

One Child Nation

When two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house, they embark on a magical-realist journey in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind.

306 Hollywood

Journalism icon Gay Talese reports on Gerald Foos, the owner of a Colorado motel, who allegedly secretly watched his guests with the aid of specially designed ceiling vents, peering down from an "observation platform" he built in the motel's attic.

Voyeur

When Bryan sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller.

Icarus

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

The mystery surrounding the Salvator Mundi, the first painting by Leonardo da Vinci to be discovered for more than a century, which has now seemingly gone missing.

The Lost Leonardo

Two midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, defy strict ethnic divisions to work side by side in a makeshift clinic in western Myanmar, providing medical services to the Rohingya of Rakhine State.