All the Right Stuff (25 Min)
Friday 10:30 a.m.
This is a video about kids, malls, media and
money. The position of youth in our consumer economy is
explored in this hip-hop style documentary. With poor job
prospects and little access to the political process,
teenagers come to see themselves primarily as consumers,
a self-image marketers are only to happy to encourage and
exploit.
National Film Board of Canada (1997, VHS) Rental: $50
Purchase: $195Beauty
Leaves the Bricks (46 min) Thursday 3:30 p.m.
"Beauty Leaves the Bricks" presents
four young women struggling with the demands of children,
husbands, parents and careers. They explore how living in
poverty affected their life choices and brought them to
where they are today.
Media Projects, Inc. (1995, VHS) Rental: $50 Purchase:
$199
Brainstorm (53 min) Friday 1:30
p.m.
"Brainstorm" gives a general overview
of the devastating disorder depression, and shows the
danger of not recognizing it. It interviews people who
have suffered directly or indirectly from depression,
such as the author William Styron and the director Jane
Campion. It covers a wide range of treatments currently
in use.
Filmakers Library (1996/97, VHS) Rental: $75 Purchase:
$350
Confessions of a Rabid Dog (48
min) Thursday 12:15 p.m.
An honest and gritty portrait of the heroin
scene. The video tracks the director's experiences,
starting from his own introduction to the drug
"scene" all the way through to his own
treatment and his new life without drugs.
National Film Board of Canada (1997, VHS) Rental: $65
Purchase: $225
Defending Our Lives (41 min)
Saturday 3:15 p.m.
"Defending Our Lives" exposes the
magnitude and severity of domestic violence in this
country. This video features four women imprisoned for
killing their batterers and their terrifying testimonies.
Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc. (1993, VHS) Rental: $45
Purchase: $150
Dying is Not an Option:
Thinking About Suicide (58 min) Friday 12:00 p.m.
This video encourages viewers to understand the
signs of suicide, and to remember that even in periods of
despair, there is help for depression and suicidal
feelings. The second half of the video allows viewers to
hear from Dr. Barry Garfinkel, expert in adolescent
depression.
Human Relations Media (1996, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase:
$189
Fear of Intimacy: An
Examination of Withholding Behavior Patterns (52 min)
Saturday 9:30 a.m.
"Fear of Intimacy" is a deeply moving
video program exploring the reasons why many men and
women find it difficult to sustain closeness, love and
friendship in their most intimate relationships. In this
compelling documentary, clinical psychologist and author,
Robert Firestone, Ph.D., together with the participants
in the videotaped seminar on relationships, uncover the
basis of intimacy and describe ways of challenging
patterns that cause distress in relationships.
The Glendon Association (1997, VHS) Rental: $30 Purchase:
$100
First Break (48 min) Friday
2:30 p.m.
This compelling new documentary explores the
impact of a first episode - or "first break" -
of mental illness on three young adults and their
families. Most films on mental illness focus on adults
and their families; this film daringly traces the toll of
mental illness on adolescents or young adults.
National Film Board of Canada (1997, VHS) Rental: $65
Purchase: $225
For a Moment in Time:
Discovering Affective Attunement (23 min) Saturday 9:00
a.m.
Attunement occurs when two individuals focus
upon one another, have the same subjective feelings, and
experience a sense of "oneness." This resonance
provides emotional validation, lets us know we are not
emotionally alone, and helps us develop self-esteem. This
video extends the work of Daniel Stern and has importance
for researchers and practitioners working in attachment,
intimacy, emotional development, and parent-child
relationships.
Communications Media, Univ. of Calgary (1997, VHS)
Rental: $60 Purchase: $195
Glimmer of Hope (53 min)
Saturday 4:45 p.m.
A portrait of one family learning how to heal
after a loved one is brutally murdered. By meeting the
killers, they can ask questions that plague them, hear
the killer's version first-hand and bring monstrous acts
and their perpetrators into human focus - all in the hope
of coming to terms with inexpressible grief and loss. The
compelling process of victim/offender mediation comes to
life in this moving documentary.
National Film Board of Canada (1997, VHS) Rental: $80
Purchase: $250
Green Chimneys (95 min)
Thursday 1:15 p.m.
This video focuses on three disturbed, inner
city boys who are given the opportunity to heal at
"Green Chimneys", a farm/therapy facility in
Brewster, N.Y. The philosophy of Green Chimneys is that
troubled children can be reached by being given the
responsibilty of caring for animals. The film follows the
efforts of social workers, psychologists and staff as
they help the children deal with their emotional turmoil.
Filmakers Library (1997, VHS) Rental: $75 Purchase: $295
Guts, Gumption, and Go-Ahead:
Annie Mae Hunt Remembers (24 min) Thursday 3:00 p.m.
"Guts, Gumption, and Go-Ahead"
portrays the self-determination and indomitable spirit of
Annie Mae Hunt. In her own words, Annie Mae tells the
story of how she achieved her goal of personal and
economic independence.
Media Projects, Inc. (1992, VHS) Rental: $50 Purchase:
$199
Hans J. Eysenck: Rebel with a
Cause (30 min) Friday 5:30 p.m.
Roberta Russell, author of "R.D. Laing and
Me: Lessons in Love" explores the latest findings in
human conditions with the influential authorities in the
vanguard of contemporary thought. Russell interviews the
most quoted psychologists - and the most controversial.
Find out what Eysenck really thought about effective
psychotherapy.
Penn State Media Sales (1996, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase:
$49
Kid Nerd (45 min) Friday 11:00
a.m.
An offbeat, sometimes juicy, look back at
nerdhood by adults who have come to terms with their
nerdiness. Bullies, sports, the prom, the freedom that
comes with college and adulthood: this fast-paced film
with its rockin' soundtrack and clever use of stock
footage finally lets the nerds have their say.
National Film Board of Canada (1997, VHS) Rental: $60
Purchase: $225
Love Taps (21 min) Saturday
2:45 p.m.
A powerful drama about teens, relationships and
dating violence. Designed as a discussion starter, this
video focuses on two teen couples who are caught in
abusive relationships - one young man physically abuses
his girlfriend, and the other relationship shows how
verbal abuse can corrode self-esteem.
National Film Board of Canada (1996, VHS) Rental: $60
Purchase: $200
Miniskirted Dynamo (55 min)
Saturday 12:30 p.m.
One of the biggest dilemmas facing modern women
is balancing motherhood and a career. This film gives an
intimate view of the funny and frustrating sides of
growing up the daughter of a high-achieving mother who
had time for everything but her kids.
Filmakers Library (1996, VHS) Rental: $75 Purchase: $350
Moral Development I: Concept
and Theory (29 min) Friday 8;00 a.m.
This video explains the concept of morality and
defines key terms fundamental to most moral codes, and
helps viewers know how those values are developed
throughout childhood and adolescence.
Magna Systems (1998, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $90
Moral Development II: Learning
to be Moral (29 min) Friday 8:30 a.m.
This video covers the emergence of moral
behavior from early infancy through adolescence. It also
shows the roles that parents, society, schools and other
institutions play with emphasis upon developing a
detailed understanding of how moral development is
nurtured and stimulated.
Magna Systems (1998, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $90
Motherlove (58 min) Saturday
1:30 p.m.
By filming four mothers and daughters of
contrasting age, class and family dynamics, the filmmaker
captures certain traits that almost all mother/daughter
relationships have in common, such as the mother's desire
for the daughters safety versus the daughters need for
independence.
Filmakers Library (1996, VHS) Rental: $75 Purchase: $295
No Real Winners: Sexual
Harassment in Academia (40 min) Saturday 4:00 p.m.
The engaging points of view and experiences of
victims and the accused are captured to provoke dialogue
among faculty and administration in colleges. Designed to
get the audience to raise questions about how sexual
harassment pertains to them, it is part of an intensive 2
1/2 hour sexual harassment workshop.
Durrin Productions, Inc. (1995, VHS) Rental: N/A
Purchase: $499
Packing Heat (50 min) Saturday
11:30 a.m.
This documentary profiles women of an emerging
gun culture, from self-styled guru Paxton Quigley, to a
university psychology professor who spends her weekends
at the gun club. Lively and informative, this documentary
looks at why women want to carry firearms, and at the
ethical and practical implications of a gun in every
purse.
National Film Board of Canada (1996, VHS) Rental: $80
Purchase: $295
Psychotherapy with Gay and
Lesbian Clients: Diversity (46 min) Friday 4:45 p.m.
Lesbians and gay men who are "people of
color" must manage conflicting allegiances with
divergent social worlds. Three recognized professionals
offer empirical and clinical perspectives on multiple
discrimination and culture specific issues for African
American, Asian American, and Latino gay/lesbian clients.
A cross-cultural therapy session demonstates treatment of
culture-bound issues.
Buendia Productions (1995, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase:
$125
Responding to Loss (66 min)
Friday 3:30 p.m.
"Responding to Loss" can be
effectively used to educate both future and current
schoolteachers and counselors. This proactive program
gives adult leaders the necessary tools to have a plan of
action for the inevitable event of a crisis in the school
community. Higher education institutions use this program
to incorporate training about crisis management in
teacher education curriculum so these future leaders will
have specific training on grief and loss.
South Carolina Educational Television (1997, VHS) Rental:
N/A Purchase: $70
Rough Side of the Mountain (57
min) Thursday 10:00 a.m.
In the last 20 years mining companies and
factories have closed leaving behind rural communities
with crumbling infrastructures, unemployment, and
inexperience in self-governance. "Rough Side of the
Mountain" documents the efforts of citizens to
rebuild their communities in two company towns in
southwest Virginia: Ivanhoe and Trammel. "Rough
Side" looks at community organizing and economic
development while exploring the complexity of Appalachian
communities, economic issues, exploitation, women's
leadership and democracy.
Appalshop Marketing and Sales (1997, VHS) Rental: $90
Purchase: $295
Sad, Angry, Lonely, and Scared:
The Masks of Depression (30 min) Friday 1:00 p.m.
This video helps teens recognize the signs of
depression, which can often be hidden in teenagers, or
manifest itself as anger, irrational behavior,
delinquency and secretiveness.
Human Relations Media (1997, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase:
$189
Scant Sanity (12 min) Thursday
12:00 p.m.
This video provides an imaginative, animated
treatise on the nature of identity. Imagining himself as
a character in the midst of a job interview, the animator
deconstructs the various answers to the question - who am
I really?
National Film Board of Canada (1996, VHS) Rental: $50
Purchase: $139
The Exceptional Child I:
Building Understanding (29 min) Friday 9:15 a.m.
This video explores understanding the
differences in the intellectual, communication, sensory,
behavioral and physical areas, as well as the child with
multiple and severe handicapping conditions. In addition,
this video focuses on the changing and evolving
perspective that society has held on exceptional
children.
Magna Systems (1998, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $90
The Exceptional Child II:
Focusing on Nurturing and Learning (29 min) Friday 9:45
a.m.
In this video, viewers are introduced to the
range of programs that are available for educationally
exceptional children and their families. It also
emphasizes the importance of involving and supporting
parents, as well as promoting the idea of inclusion.
Magna Systems (1998, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $90
The Other Angels (56 min)
Thursday 11:00 a.m.
War nurses are often referred to as angels by
their military patients. "The Other Angels"
profiles American civilian nurses who volunteered in 1967
for duty in primitive, understaffed and poorly supplied
Vietnamese hospitals caring for wounded civilians the
crossfire of war. The film also gives graphic examples of
why so many who served in Vietnam, whether civilian or
military, brought the war home with them in the form of
PTSD.
The Other Angels Productions (1995, VHS; also available
in 16mm film, Beta SP, & 3/4")
Rental: N/A Purchase: $39
Untold Desires (53 min)
Saturday 8:00 a.m.
"Untold Desires" highlights the
struggle that people with disabilities face in their
quest to be recognized as sexual beings. The film allows
these people to speak about issues which confront them,
such as privacy, the right to have sexual relationships,
and the right to have children. It offers positive images
for people with disabilities.
Filmakers Library (1995/97, VHS) Rental: $75 Purchase:
$350
Voices About Relationships (46
min) Saturday 10:30 a.m.
"Voices About Relationships" is a
revealing exposure of the key issues within couples that
interfere with each partner's ability to relate closely.
Participants in the video identify thoughts or
"voices" toward themselves assimilated in
childhood. As they challenge their negative thoughts and
stereotypic thinking, they are able to free themselves of
restrictive behaviors and destructive ties.
The Glendon Association (1995, VHS) Rental: $30 Purchase:
$100
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