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Spring 2010 Releases
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New Releases from the
Fanlight Productions
Collection

  • The Bicycle - Fighting AIDS with community medicine in Malawi. (new January, 2010)

  • Drawing From Life - A half-hour film that goes inside a group therapy workshop for people who have attempted suicide more than once. (new January, 2010)

  • Hand-Held: - A documentary anthology on health and homelessness, and a frank and invaluable resource for anyone interested in how media and medicine can work together to change lives. (new January, 2010)

  • The Interventionists - A mental health nurse and a police officer ride the streets of the inner city in an unmarked police car, responding to 911 calls involving what are officially called "emotionally disturbed persons" (EDP). (new January, 2010)

  • Karen RefugeesKaren Refugees: Fleeing Burma’s Forgotten War - A courageous band of "backpack medics" slips through the jungle, avoiding army checkpoints, to deliver medical supplies and care to their people, the Karen minority of Burma. (new January, 2010)

  • Making Mothers - Profile of the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, D.C. which primarily serves and is likewise staffed by the African American community. (new January, 2010)

  • Not Just a Bad Day - Living under the shadow of one of the most commonly misunderstood and misdiagnosed mental illnesses - bipolar dIsorder. (new January, 2010)

  • The 7 Interventions of Filmmaker-in-Residence - The story of a groundbreaking project in media intervention at an inner-city hospital. What happens when documentary filmmaking, photoblogs, digital storytelling and more are used to investigate complex health issues? (new January, 2010)

  • Art Safari - Meet the superstars of the Contemporary Art World, including Matthew Barney, Takashi Murakami and Sophie Calle, in this playful series of 8 films, along with "art geek" Ben Lewis, as he travels the world in search of great art, and art that might be great. (new January, 2010)

  • Earth Keepers - Takes viewers on a global quest to meet key visionaries working to solve environmental and social problems. (new September, 2010)

  • Food DesignFood Design - A look inside the secret chambers where designers and scientists are defining your favorite mouthful of tomorrow. (new January, 2010)

  • Grand Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to turn Paris into the model super-metropolis for the 21st century, and plenty of world-class architects would like the job. (new February, 2010)

  • Henry Miller - An intimate and revealing look at Henry Miller, and his life and work through this program from the archives that originally aired on television in Quebec in 1969. (new January, 2010)

  • Jack Kerouac - A charming program from Quebec television 40+ years ago. Jack Kerouac talks about his childhood, writing On the Road and the origin of the word "beat." (new January, 2010)

  • Paris, 19th Century - Architectural historian François Loyer, an expert on 19th-century Paris, examines the foundation of the modern city in Georges-Eugène Haussmann's massive "renovation" of the 1860s. (new February, 2010)

  • Paris Ring - The story of the road round Paris, the most significant 'redevelopment' project in Paris since Haussmann's time. (new February, 2010)

  • Rabbit à la Berlin - 2010 Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Short Subject (new September, 2010)

  • Stolen Art - In New York City in 1978, an unknown Czech artist by the name of Pavel Novak held an exhibit entitled Stolen Art. (new January, 2010)

  • TaggedTagged - Playful, smart and engaging, TAGGED stealthily taps into a widespread sense of unease raised by the technological development of human implanted microchips. (new January, 2010)

  • This Way Up - Near Jerusalem, the construction of the separation wall continues, a few feet from a senior citizens' home. (new January, 2010)

  • Three Songs about Motherland - A film about collisions between the past, present, and future in three Russian cities today. (new January, 2010)

  • Views on Vermeer - 10 contemporary artists and writers invite us to discover or re-discover the painter's work, and to appreciate it in new ways. (new February, 2010)

 

Fall 2009 Releases
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  • Agustín's Newspaper - Journalism students at the University of Chile embark on an investigation of El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile. (new September, 2009)

  • The Battle for the ArcticThe Battle for the Arctic - As the polar ice caps shrink, an international contest for control of the Arctic, is escalating. (new September, 2009)

  • Black Sun - A history of the esoteric ideas and myths that served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideology and inspired Adolf Hiter. (new September, 2009)

  • In Search of Memory - The life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel. (new September, 2009)

  • The InheritorsThe Inheritors - An immersion in the daily life of children in Mexico who, with their families, survive only by their unrelenting labor. (new September, 2009)

  • Lotman's World - The story of Yuri Lotman (1922-1993), little-known - except maybe in Estonia! - pioneer of semiotics. (new September, 2009)

  • The Moving Earth - A chronicle of the revolution that shaped the world as we know it, made by Galileo, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe to Newton. (new September, 2009)

  • The Nine Lives of Norodom Sihanouk - The life story of Norodom Sihanouk, by turns Cambodia's King, Prime Minister, Prince, Head of State for Life, Exile, and Prisoner. (new September, 2009)

  • Oedipus in China - Over the last ten to fifteen years, the development of psychoanalysis in China reflects the changing needs of a society that is just learning how to express personal feelings. (new October, 2009)

  • Secret Museums - For millenia erotic art has been created, often by some of the world's best-known artists. But it is rarely on public display. (new September, 2009)

  • Seeds of Hunger - A global investigation into the evolving nature of food production, and the crisis it may portend. (new September, 2009)

  • War and Love in KabulWar and Love in Kabul - Hossein's and Shaima's love is a story about honor, tribal laws, disgrace, fear, and hope for change in a war-ravaged Afghanistan. (new September, 2009)

  • The World's Next Supermodel - Asia, Brazil or Western Europe - which will be the world's next economic superstar? (new September, 2009)

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