Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris dishes on her favorite way to unwind, in a newly released interview from 2019 with the late activist Ady Barkan. "What I do to decompress is I cook," then-Sen. Harris tells Barkan in the video, which posted to YouTube this morning. "So let me tell you…

Independent Lens, the Emmy-winning ITVS series that airs on PBS stations, has acquired TV and digital rights to Nicholas Bruckman's latest documentary, Minted. The film, which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Festival, explores the boom-and-bust fortunes of NFTs (non-fungible tokens), a market that…

EXCLUSIVE: Not Going Quietly, the award-winning documentary about progressive activist Ady Barkan and his battle with ALS, will begin streaming on Hulu this Friday. Nicholas Bruckman directed the film, which won the audience award and a special jury award at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, earned three IDA Awards…

Each day progressive activist Ady Barkan, who is battling the debilitating and incurable disease ALS, faces a difficult reality: "I got a lot to say and not a lot of time left to say it in." Barkan, 37, makes that observation in Not Going Quietly, the new documentary about his life and work that opens today in…

EXCLUSIVE: POV, PBS’ showcase of independent nonfiction films, has acquired Nicholas Bruckman’s Not Going Quietly and added the documentary to its season 34 lineup. Centered on disabled activist Ady Barkan, Not Going Quietly debuted at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival and won its Audience Award for Documentary Feature and…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Nicholas Bruckman’s Not Going Quietly, with plans to release the film in theaters on August 13. The documentary, which won the Audience Award and Special Jury Recognition for Humanity in Social Action at SXSW, offers an intimate and…

EXCLUSIVE: Progressive activist Ady Barkan's political group is known as "Be a Hero." It's a motto he lives by, to judge from the documentary Not Going Quietly, which is making its world premiere in competition at the SXSW Film Festival. At age 32 the Yale Law School-educated public interest attorney was diagnosed…

Ady Barkan will address the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday evening — a prime speaking slot that reflects the influence and prominence of someone who Politico called “the most powerful activist in America.” Diagnosed with ALS in 2016, Barkan is also the subject of a new documentary, Not Going Quietly…