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Documentary Channel Honors Female Filmmakers with "Her Take" This March

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This March, Documentary Channel (DOC) honors female filmmakers with "Her Take." A remarkable blend of unforgettable stories told by some of the most exceptional women in documentary film, every night of "Her Take" promises to enlighten, inform and inspire. The special line-up begins with the US television premiere of filmmaker Gulcin Gilbert's "Pink Skies" (March 3, 8 pm ET/PT), an inspiring film that follows a group of courageous women, many of whom are cancer patients and survivors, as they attempt the World Record All-Women's Skydiving Formation to raise money for breast cancer.

Other US television premieres in the line-up include "The Price of Sex" (March 10, 8 p.m. ET/PT) an eye-opening investigation into the netherworld of sex trafficking and abuse from director Mimi Chakarova; filmmaker Joan Braderman's "The Heretics" (March 17, 8 p.m. ET/PT), the exhilarating inside story of the New York feminist art collective that produced "Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics;" "Atomic Mom" (March 24, 8 p.m. ET/PT), director M.T. Silvia's unique exploration of two women, both mothers, and their very different experiences of the atom bomb; and director Gillian Armstrong's "Love, Lust & Lies" (March 31, 8 p.m. ET/PT), the fifth of Armstrong's unprecedented series about the lives, hopes and dreams of three lively, working-class girls since they were fourteen-years-old in 1976.

The complete "Her Take" schedule is as follows (all times ET/PT):

"HER TAKE" SCHEDULE

    --  "Pink Skies" - Saturday, March 3 (8 p.m.)
    --  "Gathering Remnants"  - Saturday, March 3 (10 p.m.)
    --  "The Price of Sex" - Saturday, March 10 (8 p.m.)
    --  "Holy-Water Gate: Abuse Cover Up in the Catholic Church" - Saturday,
        March 10 (9:30 p.m.)
    --  "The Heretics" - Saturday, March 17 (8 p.m.)
    --  "Polar Opposites" - Saturday, March 17 (10 p.m.)
    --  "Atomic Mom" - Saturday, March 24 (8 p.m.)
    --  "All Over But To Cry" - Saturday, March 24 (10 p.m.)
    --  "Love, Lust & Lies" - Saturday, March 31 (8 p.m.)
    --  "Ferry Tales" - Saturday, March 31 (10 p.m.)

Documentary Channel is primarily available through satellite television services DISH Network (Channel 197) and DIRECTV (Channel 267).

About Documentary Channel®: Documentary Channel (DOC) is the USA's first 24-hour television network exclusively devoted to documentary films and the independent documentary filmmaker, providing viewers with round-the-clock opportunities to see fascinating, eclectic and award-winning documentary films of all lengths and genres. For more information on DOC, visit the network website at www.documentarychannel.com, in addition to www.facebook.com/DocumentaryChannel or www.twitter.com/doc_channel.

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SOURCE Documentary Channel