Some very exciting news here. PBS just announced the Fall line-up for Independent Lens and they’ll be showing D tour in all its glory on November 10!

Obviously, huge news for us and it’s so exciting to be in the company of such great films!

Visit the Independent Lens web site to find specific airing times in your town.

Sometimes science just melts your brain and gives hope to thousands of people at a time.

A transplant surgeon who completed an unprecedented eight-way kidney swap this week said Tuesday he believes such intricate, multistate exchanges can drastically reduce the number of patients waiting for eligible donors.

“We finally beat the ‘Grey’s Anatomy‘ record for domino transplants,” Montgomery joked at a news conference hours after the last in a series of surgeries was completed Monday night. “We hope this creates a movement that encourages other transplant centers to adopt the model we used

Read the full article here via Yahoo!:   Kidney transplant record achieved

D tour just won Best Music Doc at the 2nd annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival!  We’re listed here along with some other winners…

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Jason Molina recently spoke to Pitchfork about his band’s new album, Josephine, and how it loosely is a tribute to Evan Farrell.

Pitchfork: The press material describes Josephine as sort of a concept album about the death of Evan Farrell.

JM: That’s how we loosely have been describing it, mostly because people need a reference point. It’s not really a tribute record. A lot of the ideas in that record were things that I had worked with Evan on a lot, and he was going to be of course a major part of the new record.

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