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Articles by Lysa Heslov
Soul Food Junkies
Filmmaker Byron Hurt grew up eating lots of soul food: grits and scrambled eggs covered with cheese, buttered biscuits smothered with gravy, bacon, collard greens seasoned with ham hocks, fried pork chops, macaroni and cheese, deep-fried chicken, fried fish, barbecue chicken and ribs, candied yams coated with cinnamon and brown sugar, and other delicious but fatty foods right out of the black southern tradition. MORE Both of his parents are from Milledgeville, Georgia, a small southern town.
The House I Live In
For the past 40 years, the war on drugs has resulted in more than 45 million arrests, $1 trillion dollars in government spending, and America’s role as the world’s largest jailer. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available than ever.
Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky
Archival Materials Provided by Appalshop Associated Press The Berry Center Tanya Berry Griffin Cardwell Dos Vatos Films The Bob Edwards Show/Sirius XM Film Archive Getty Images Mark Musick & The Institute for a Small Planet National Public Radio NBC Film Archives David Peterson Photography University of Kentucky US Department of Agriculture Wendell Berry reading from his works: A Timbered Choir Imagination in Place Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy Window Poems The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry...
What Lies Upstream
In the unsettling exposé What Lies Upstream, investigative filmmaker Cullen Hoback travels to West Virginia to study the unprecedented loss of clean water for over 300,000 Americans in the 2014 Elk River chemical spill. There he uncovers a shocking failure of regulation from both state and federal agencies and a damaged political system where chemical companies often write the laws that govern them.
When God Sleeps | Rock-Doc About Iranian Musician Shahin Najafi Who Lives in Hiding | Independent Lens | PBS
Would you risk your life for what you believe in? When God Sleeps is a rap-punk-rock documentary about Iranian musician Shahin Najafi, who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death, incensed by a rap song that focuses on the oppression of women and human rights abuses. Risking his life every time he steps on a stage, Shahin refuses to stop performing.
The Kill Team | American War Crimes in Afghanistan | Independent Lens | PBS
The Kill Team goes behind closed doors to tell the harrowing story of Specialist Adam Winfield, a 21-year-old infantryman in Afghanistan who — with the help of his father Chris — attempted to alert the military to heinous war crimes being committed by his platoon. Tragically, his father's pleas for help went unheeded. Once Adam’s fellow soldiers got wind of what he'd done, they threatened to silence him — permanently. MORE Forced to choose between his conscience and his own survival, Spc.
Winnie | Film About Overshadowed South African Activist Winnie Mandela | Independent Lens | PBS
Most globally known as the wife of Nelson Mandela, the overshadowed Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is one of the most misunderstood and intriguing of contemporary female political figures. Her rise and seeming fall from grace in South Africa bear the hallmarks of epic tragedy.
The Force | Inside the Oakland Police Dept. During a Time of Upheaval | Independent Lens | PBS
At a powder keg moment in American policing, The Force presents a fly-on-the-wall look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson, Missouri, and an explosive sex scandal. MORE Filmmaker Pete Nicks embedded with the department over the course of two years to follow OPD’s serial efforts to recast itself.
Community Engagement & Educational Outreach
Community Engagement and Educational Outreach is a key component that sets NET apart from its commercial television and radio counterparts. Community Engagement and Educational Outreach extends the impact of NET’s television and radio broadcasts by providing access to educational materials and collaborative activities.
Unrest | Filmmaker Documents Struggles with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (M.E.) | Independent Lens | PBS
Filmmaker Jennifer Brea was a Harvard PhD student soon to be engaged when she was struck down by a mysterious fever that left her bedridden. As her illness progressed she lost even the ability to sit in a wheelchair, yet doctors insisted it was "all in her head." Unable to convey the seriousness and depth of her symptoms to her doctor, Jennifer began a video diary on her phone that eventually became the powerful and intimate documentary, Unrest.
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