Carrie Lozano

Carrie Lozano has played a lot of important roles in the documentary field. Until not long ago she headed the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film and Artist Programs. Before that, she designed and directed the International Documentary Association’s Enterprise Fund. Her gig right now is heading up ITVS, the Independent Television Service, which, among other things, funds and distributes public TV docs, and brings us the long-running, much-decorated PBS series Independent Lens. All her experience puts her smack in the middle of a lot of the conversations going on in the documentary world about cinema, journalism, and about the role of both in a democracy, and we talk about all that and more. More about Carrie here. 

Note: In this episode, we mention the fact that one of my favorite films of 2022, Reid Davenport’s “I Didn’t See You There,” is not streaming. Reid tells me he hopes to have it available on iTunes and Amazon on 1/10/24. Highly recommended!

Films mentioned in this episode:

I Didn’t See You There (2022), Dir. Reid Davenport

The Day After Trinity (1981), Dir. Jon Else

The Devil Never Sleeps (1994), Dir. Lourdes Portillo

Oppenheimer (2023), Dir. Christopher Nolan

Other mentions:

Independent Lens

Fault Lines

Independent Television  Service (ITVS)

Frontline

POV

America Reframed

Firelight Media

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Special thanks for helping make this series happen: Sara Archambault, Florence Barrau-Adams, Jon Berman, Ben Cuomo (music), Jax Deluca, Pallavi Deshpande, Nancy Gibbs, Kathleen Hughes, Caroline Kracunas, Laura Manley, Alexis Pancrazi, Liz Schwartz, Jeff Seelbach, Lindsay Underwood (logo/graphics)

This episode was supported by a fellowship at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.