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Riding the Tiger’s TWO SPIRITS wins the PBS audience award

After breaking all records for audience engagement in the history of PBS-Independent Lens, TWO SPIRITS  received the Audience Award as the highest-rated film of the 2010-11 season by online voting and other measures of audience support!

Thousands of meaningful conversations emerged online as the film was screened 1,495 times across 140 stations from June 14-29th, 2011.

Over 150 nonprofit partner organizations participated in special screenings attended by over 50,000 people in 100 cities nationwide. In nineteen days 5,000 people commented on the film and over 2 million read about it on Facebook.

Independent Lens blog:  Audience Award Winner Two Spirits Was a Community Effort

indieWIRE blog: Two Spirits Receives the Audience Award from PBS-Independent Lens

TWO SPIRITS airs nationally on PBS/Independent Lens in June of 2011.

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TWO SPIRITS is “riveting,” says LA Weekly, “. . . a crash course on Navajo history and culture while illuminating the struggles of Martinez, whose detailed murder and mother’s grief are devastating.”

TWO SPIRITS nominated for the Fund for Santa Barbara’s Social Justice Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

TWO SPIRITS highlighted the British Film Institute’s LGBT Film Festival in London and was nominated for the CHE Film Award.

TWO SPIRITS received the Monette-Horwitz Award.