Independent Lens Series Producer
ITVS
LOIS VOSSEN is the founding and Emmy Award-winning series producer of Independent Lens. In its first eight seasons, Independent Lens received 4 Emmy Awards including a Primetime Emmy, 2 Best Documentary and Outstanding Arts & Cultural Documentary Emmy awards, 6 Peabody Awards, and 2 DuPont Awards, among other honors. Previously, Vossen was 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 (Turner Broadcasting) and has served on the jury at SXSW, DOCNZ (New Zealand Documentary Festival), Toronto International Film Festival, among others. Independent Lens titles include ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM, WORDPLAY, CHICAGO 10, CRIPS & BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA, END OF THE CENTURY: THE RAMONES, HELVETICA, KING CORN, THE ORDER OF MYTHS, DIRT! THE MOVIE, GARBAGE DREAMS, YOUNG@HEART, MARWENCOL and WASTE LAND.