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Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
With insight and levity, COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER chronicles the various stages of a mother's Alzheimer's Disease and the evolution of a daughter's response to the illness. The desire to cure the incurable-to set right her mother's confusion and forgetfulness, to temper her mother's obsessiveness-gives way to an acceptance which is finally liberating for both daughter and mother. Neither depressing nor medical, COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER...
Publisher
Brown Planet Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We All We Got captures the poetic language of the streets: police helicopters flying over the city, music popping out of cars, people talking shit on the street corners, ambulances on the run, and preachers hollering for the violence to stop after another young man is senselessly gunned down in the streets of Chicago.. In the context of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the country’s recent focus on youth violence, police brutality, poverty and...
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Facing scorching temperatures, 19-year-old Andy Payne, a small-town Cherokee boy, takes home the gold after winning a grueling 3,422-mile foot race designed to bring attention to the newly constructed Route 66 Highway. The race recounted in this Emmy-nominated film became one of the wildest promotion schemes in history, allowing Andy to win enough money to marry his girl and keep the family farm.
5) Backyard
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
The result of McElwee turning his camera on his family and their neighbors, the film is a humorous and poignant look at odd moments in a genteel Southern town.
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When you hear the phrase "Native American music" you may not think of tubas, trumpets, and Sousa marches. Yet, this rich musical tradition has long been a part of Native American culture...Experience the Native American music scene like never before and get an inside look at contemporary Indian life in this unexpected and engaging half-hour documentary, Sousa on the Rez: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum.
8) Corpus
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
CORPUS is a moving tribute to Selena, the Tejana superstar gunned down in 1995 at the age of 23 as she was on the brink of blockbuster crossover fame. While the story of her murder, which was filled with sex, glamour and betrayal, caught the attention of many outside the Chicano community, this film moves well beyond the sensational to present a nuanced feminist analysis of Selena's story.. Award-winning filmmaker Lourdes Portillo (SEÑORITA EXTRAVIADA,...
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Today, North Koreans are breaking down the barriers to discover the true horrors of the gulag state. Following the journey of a small group of secret filmmakers, this doc shows the viewer what life is really like under the new leader Kim Jong Un, highlighting the contrast of the starving homeless children on the streets to the glittering life of the elite in Pyongyang. We are shown the secret trade in USBs, cell phones and DVDs, which are transforming...
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Central European immigrants brought polka music to America in the mid-19th century but the people in the O'odham Indian nations in Arizona's Sonoran desert have made the mixture of accordions, saxophones and percussion all their own...Taken from the word baila, which means dance in Spanish, Akimel and Tohono people have created waila, a form of music that embodies polka and Mexican tejano, cumbias and Norteno. And one family, the famous Joaquin Brothers,...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In this insightful short documentary, body acceptance activists Keena and Jessica speak candidly about growing up overweight, and the size discrimination they have faced. "While I have all the confidence in the world, I’m told every day that my body is revolting." Jessica turns heads in the street—for both her striking fashion, and larger than average body. Keena is the heaviest she has ever been—and the happiest. Brought together by social...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Albertina Carri’s THE BLONDS is a look at Argentina’s recent history from the perspective of a generation forced to mourn those of whom they have no recollection. Carri, who lost her parents to Argentina’s brutal military junta when she was three years old, travels through Buenos Aires with her crew to unravel the factual and emotional mysteries of her parents’ life, disappearance and death. Traces of Carri’s family emerge, colored by sharply...
13) My Name Is Salt
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Year after year, Sanabhai brings his family to a seasonal saline desert in Gujarat India, where they harvest what they proudly proclaim to be the world's whitest salt, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Hardship and exploitation loom large in this film, but director Farida Pacha lets this speak for itself, instead fixing her gaze on the poetry and ritual of Sanabhai and his family's existence. Exquisite camerawork...
Publisher
Pro Doco
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An urban and social Geography program that looks at what makes cities liveable and what impacts on liveability. Includes Melbourne which was rated the World’s most liveable city in 2015. Criteria for liveability are discussed using Australia’s capital cities and a selection of small towns as case studies. A good way to compare and contrast other Western cities such as those in the USA and Europe with one of the World’s most highly urbanised...
15) Jeepney
Publisher
Perinspire Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This documentary visualizes the richly diverse cultural and social climate of the Philippines through its most popular form of mass transportation: vividly decorated ex-WWII military jeeps. Following jeepney artists, drivers, and passengers: Gerry drives a jeepney that reflects his reverence for nature and tradition; Manny grew up near a US military base and watched the jeepney transform as he did while working abroad; and Lhudz continues the woodcarving...
16) Chen Village
Publisher
Empty Mind Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When you first arrive at Chen village, you are struck by how unremarkable it is. Set in the remote countryside of central Henan, it appears to offer very little. That is until you check one fact. 3,000 people live in Chen Village. 2,500 practice Tai Chi Chuan. In China it is known simply as Taiji village. Although a poor village surrounded by farms, it is the birthplace of Tai Chi Chuan and one of the most significant locations in Martial Arts. “I’ve...
Publisher
Yangon Film School
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Founded by Anglo-Burmese filmmaker Lindsey Merrison in 2005, the Yangon Film School (YFS) is a Berlin-based non-profit organisation that was created in order to support and encourage a burgeoning community of young media workers in Myanmar. Since its first pioneering residential workshop in 2005, the trainings, and the cinematic output, have gone from strength to strength...YFS regularly brings together experienced filmmakers from around the world...
18) Bali Indonesia
Publisher
Pro Doco
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Complements our other program made in 2002 "Bali Traditions and Tourism”. Focus area Geography and Tourism. Looks at benefits of tourism and more deeply at negative effects of tourism than the earlier program, especially inappropriate development, traffic, air,water and visual pollution, poor waste disposal practices. The rest of the program focuses on those working outside the tourism industry in villages and rice cultivation. Includes the cooperative,...
19) My Life in China
Publisher
Projectile Arts
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
My father fled the Cultural Revolution in 1966. After risking his life to get to America, he started our family in Boston. But when his restaurant went bankrupt and my mom got sick, he began to feel like he’d failed at the American Dream.. A story of migration is passed down from father to son, as we retrace the precarious steps he took in search of a better life. Ultimately asking the question, what does it mean to be both Chinese and American?....
20) Precious
Publisher
Yangon Film School
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A short documentary observing some of the people involved in the – often risky – business of gemstone extraction in Myanmar..A fascinating and well-crafted insight into a line of work that is almost synonymous with Myanmar. The way the film compares to of the countrie's precious natural resources – rubies and children – is wonderfully philosophical...Goethe-Institute Myanmar Documentary Award Jury
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