Lois Vossen is the founding executive producer of Independent Lens, a multiplatform series on PBS. Independent Lens funds, co-produces and presents 22 original documentaries each season along with about 20 short docs on PBS Voices digital channel, journalism videos with legacy journalism partners, and docuseries including Philly D.A., A Lion in the House, and Have You Heard From Johannesburg (the last two both Primetime Emmy Award winners).

Independent Lens documentaries have received 25 Primetime and News & Documentary Emmy Awards, 23 Peabody Awards, 6 duPont Columbia Journalism Awards, 10 Academy Award nominations, and the series was honored with the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017 International Documentary Association (IDA) Best Series Award, along with 3 additional nominations.

Previously, Lois was Associate Managing Director of the Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Labs. She has served on the jury of DOC New Zealand, Toronto International Film Festival, Shanghai International Festival, SXSW, Palm Springs International Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival. She serves on the Television Academy Board of Governors Executive Committee, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

Independent Lens co-produced feature documentaries include Try Harder!, One Child Nation, I Am Not Your Negro, Belly of the Beast, When Claude Got Shot, Always in Season, Bedlam, TOWER, Trapped, (T)ERROR, Newtown, The Invisible War, The House I Live In, Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution, Best of Enemies, The Trials of Muhammad Ali, among many others.

updated 3.22.21