Lois Vossen
Independent Lens Executive Producer

Lois Vossen is the founding executive producer of Independent Lens on PBS. Each season, the series co-produces and presents 25-30 original feature documentaries, shorts, journalism videos with legacy journalism outlets, and docuseries including Philly D.A. Independent Lens has received 27 Emmy Awards, 28 Peabody Awards, 11 duPont Columbia Journalism Awards, 10 Academy Award nominations, and was honored with the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2022 International Documentary Association (IDA) Award for Best Continuing Series, along with 5 additional nominations. 

Vossen was on the Television Academy Board of Governors and continues to serve on the Academy’s executive DEIA Committee. She’s a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and has been a juror for DOC New Zealand, Toronto International Film Festival, Shanghai International Festival, SXSW, Palm Springs International Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, among others. Prior to her work at ITVS, Vossen was Associate Managing Director of the Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Labs. 

Documentaries that Independent Lens has co-produced and supported include If Dreams Were Lightning, When Claude Got Shot, The Longest Goodbye, Writing With Fire, One Child Nation, Hazing, Belly of the Beast, I Am Not Your Negro, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution, Newtown, TOWER, Black Memorabilia, Best of Enemies, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges & Universities, among many others.