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The Shaman’s Apprentice: The Search for Knowledge in the Amazon rainforest (2001:54 mins.)
Produced by Miranda Smith and Abigail Wright. Narrated by Susan Sarandon.
Dr. Mark Plotkin, an ethnobotanist, races to document and preserve the ancient healing knowledge of Amazon Indians from extinction. The forest is disappearing and with it many medicines and the tribal shamans – healers and encyclopedias of rain forest botany. The story of one scientist’s quest to document and save this endangered life and culture. For information and resources: www.mirandaproductions.com |
@2001 Miranda Productions, Inc. |
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The Edge of America: Struggling for Health and Justice (2004:56 mins.)
A National Association of County and City Health Officials (NAACHO) production.
This film explores how three rural communities in Arizona, Montana, and North Carolina struggle to survive injustices such as poverty, inadequate housing, discrimination, ineffective immigration policy and lack of public transportation and health care. It shows the challenges for rural life impacted by national trends and policies and offers a window into rural life and introduces people who make rural America their home. |
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No Loitering (2001; 57 mins.)
A film by Ellen Frankenstein.
An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to find their way and make sense of the world around them. The film weaves together video shot by teens and by the filmmaker, as they work together to make a film and create expressive outlets for youth in the community. Set in the town of Sitka, Alaska, home to a large Alaska Native population, the video chronicles the creativity, concerns and dreams of youth growing up today. For information and resources: http://www.efclicks.net/ |
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Goodbye Baby (2005: 58 mins.)
A film by Pat Goudivs.
As the number of adoptions from Guatemala to the U.S. continues to rise dramatically, so does the controversy. What adoptive parents see as an act of love, others view with deep suspicion. Director Pat Goudvis, herself the mother of two children adopted from Guatemala examines the ramifications that money, private lawyers, media coverage and women’s rights have on the adoption process. |
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Global Villages: The Globalization of Ethnic Display (2005; 59 mins.)
A film by Tamar Gordon.
A film about ethnic theme parks in China and Japan and the politics of theme park representation. While having fun together, tourists and performers also collaborate in the production of heritage, nation and world. Moving between five sites in two countries—weaving together performances, interviews and interactions-- Global Villages captures the different narratives of globalization and identity that shape the experiences of ethnic minorities and foreign nationals as they perform for tourists. www.globalvillagesmovie.com |
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Tumaini Letu (2006 20 mins.)
A film by Natalie Halpern.
Tumaini Letu (Our Hope) is a film about the lives, struggles, and indomitable spirit of three women left to care for Kenyan AIDS orphans. Rasoa Kivairu is raising ten grandchildren; Anna Khautu is a single mother of five who lost her husband to AIDS; and Anna Aredo has taken in four nephews. With limited resources but great resolve they must overcome many challenges to ensure these orphans grow up healthy and have a chance at a better future. www.aed.org/ourhope |
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Leper: Life Beyond Stigma (2002; 23 mins.)
A film by Ellen Bruno.
An intimate glimpse into a community of lepers in a remote village in Nepal. Villagers speak of how, after much struggle and hardship, they build new lives for themselves, recreating family and community in the context of this disease. Their poignant and revealing stories offer heartfelt reflections on societal fears and aversions to sickness, bodily differences, and death. Educational and film resources at: www.brunofilms.com/resources.html |
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A Days Work, A Day’s Pay (2001: 57 mins.)
A film by Kathy Leichter and JSkurnik
The experiences of three welfare recipients in New York City from 1997 to 2000 as they participate in the largest welfare-to-work program in the nation. When forced to work at city jobs for well below the prevailing wage and deprived of the chance to go to school, these individuals decide to fight back, demanding programs that will actually help them move off of welfare and into jobs. A film that highlights the real-life impact that social policy has on human beings and the effort required for poor and working people to transform themselves from victims of the System to fully empowered citizens who take control of their own lives. For further information: www.mintleafproductions.com
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| Sacrifice (1998: 50 mins.)
A film by Ellen Bruno.
Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighboring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients, and the police. Sacrifice examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a personal crisis born of economic and political repression. For more information: www.brunofilms.com/resources.html
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B.A.T.A.M: (2005: 33 mins.)
A film by Liam Dalzell, Per Erik Eriksson, Johan Lindquist.
B.A.T.A.M. tells the contrasting stories of a young factory worker and a prostitute living through dramatic transformation on the Indonesian island of Batam. As the booming economy is flooded with impoverished migrant workers, the experiences of these two women illuminate the ways in which multinational capitalism and migration interact in the shadowlands of globalization. |
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Garifunas Holding Ground (2002: 11 mins.) and When the River Meets the Sea
(2004:14 mins.)
Produced by and for the Afro-indigenous Garífuna population of Honduras.
Politically and economically marginalized for their race and unique culture and history, the Garifuna community in Honduras has faced further devastation in the deadly wake of Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Garifunas Holding Ground details the struggle against an illegal highway that is destroying crops, old-growth forest, and the water supply. When the River Meets the Seafocuses onthe after-effects of Hurricane Mitch and the ongoing neglect by the Honduran government, with an emphasis on the voices of women and youth in the community. A production of Witness: www.witness.org in partnership with the Comité de Emergencia Garífuna de Honduras. |
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Los Trabajadores (2001:48 mins.)
A film by Heather Courtney
Through the words of immigrant workers and the families they’ve left behind, the film tells the stories of workers at an Austin, Texas, day labor site. It places their struggles and contributions in the context of the City’s economic development, and reveals the impact of globalization on their lives. Educational Resources available at: www.pbs.org/independentlens/theworkers/film.html |
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Behind the Labels (2001, updated 2003: 45 mins.)
Produced and directed by Tia Lessin. Narrated by Susan Sarandon.
Lured by false promises and driven by desperation, thousands of Chinese and Filipina women pay high fees for jobs in garment factories on the Pacific island of Saipan- which despite being a U.S. territory is exempt from federal minimum wage and certain immigration laws. The clothing they sew, bearing the "Made in the USA" label, is shipped duty- and quota-free to the U.S. for sale of The Gap, J.Crew, Polo, and other retailers. Powerful hidden-camera footage, along with the garment workers' personal stories, offers a rare and unforgettable glimpse into indentured labor and the workings of the global sweatshop-where fourteen-hour shifts, payless paydays, and lock-downs are routine. A production of Witness: www.witness.org |
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Goa Under Seige (1999:30 mins.)
Directed by Gargi Sen, Magic Lantern Foundation, India.
An investigation of the impact of the development of large-scale tourism on the hosts: on their ecology, economy and culture. Through the case study of Goa, a tourism hot-spot in India, the film examines the different kinds of tourists who visit Goa, the consequence of their visit, incidences of violations and the protests by citizens of Goa. and attempts to understand why the people are unhappy when tourism is generally seen as one of the best industries to earn profits and bring in foreign exchange to the country. |
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A Matter of Respect (1992: 30 mins.)
A film by Ellen Frankenstein.
The portrayal of a diverse group of people expressing their culture and identity and honoring their ancestors way of life through teaching language, harvesting and preparing traditional foods, restoring community cemeteries and dancing, carving and weaving. In this stereotype-breaking documentary about the meaning of tradition and change people speak frankly about the challenges they face balancing their lives in two cultures. A young drummer and dancer guides tourists through a museum, a silver carver/disc jockey talks about his love both of rock and roll and traditional carving, and a Tlingit elder teaches children at a summer fish camp. For information and resources: http://www.efclicks.net/ |
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