Lois Vossen

Lois Vossen is the founding and Emmy Award-winning series producer of Independent Lens. In eight seasons, Independent Lens has received 4 Emmy Awards including a Primetime Emmy, 2 Best Documentary and Outstanding Arts & Cultural Documentary Emmy awards, and been nominated for 9 additional Emmy Awards. It has also been honored with 6 Peabody Awards, and 2 DuPont Awards, among other honors. Vossen was the director of broadcast, distribution & communications at ITVS and oversaw the launch of more than 250 films on public television. Prior to ITVS, she was associate managing director of the Sundance Institute, Sundance Labs Manager, and programmed Sundance Cinematheque at the Sundance Resort. Vossen worked with director Philip Kaufman on China: Wild East and has served on the jury at SXSW, DOCNZ (New Zealand Documentary Festival), Toronto International Film Festival, among others.

Airing on PBS prime time for nine months each year, the Emmy award-winning series Independent Lens is a film festival in your living room. Past films include YOUNG@HEART, ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM, WORDPLAY, CHICAGO 10, CRIPS & BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA, AN UNREASONABLE MAN, BILLY STRAYHORN: LUSH LIFE, END OF THE CENTURY: THE RAMONES, HELVETICA, KING CORN, THE ORDER OF MYTHS, DIRT! THE MOVIE, and GARBAGE DREAMS.