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41) Deej
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
After spending his early years in foster care, without access to language, DJ Savarese (“Deej”) found not only a loving family but also a life in words, which he types on a text-to-voice synthesizer. As he dreams of college, he confronts the terrors of his past, society’s obstacles to inclusion and the often-paralyzing beauty of his own senses. In this first-of-its-kind collaboration between a veteran filmmaker and a nonspeaking autistic, Robert...
Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In a search for their identity, a group of adolescents discover they all share the same sperm donor. Filmed over 8 years, the children bond as the mystery of their biological father deepens. Future People explores the intricacies of nature vs nurture and our shared innate drive to know oneself through lineage.
43) Mothertime
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (60 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
MOTHERTIME is a personal video diary that takes us on a corporeal journey in parenting via a small portable Go-Pro camera. Worn by both mother and child, or left on any surface and turned on and off remotely, the camera over the period of a year and a half captures a real-time, sensorial journey spanning the frenetic to mundane. Set primarily amidst scenes at home, the film explores the whimsical, ordinary, sometimes claustrophobic repeating loops...
Author
Formats
Description
Rachel Sherman teaches sociology at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. She is the author of Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels.
A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their wealth and place in society
From TV's "real housewives" to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"?...
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
America has always been a land of extremes, but it is as polarised today as it's ever been. Travelling through its states, this timely documentary explores the influences that are changing the face of American culture. Meeting artists, musicians, locals and leaders, rich and poor, it takes a look outside of the political maelstrom at the complex dynamics and divides playing out at a grassroots level. What will become of the land of the free?
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
These eight amputees all have remarkable stories to share about perception and embracing a new version of themselves - the challenges they've faced and what they've gained through their limb loss.
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
We meet nine empowered women who talk about what it's like to be a lesbian, the fascination and fetishisation of what they do in the bedroom, and what life is like when your world isn't centred around men.
48) Black Boys
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
BLACK BOYS illuminates the full humanity of Black men and boys in America. An intimate, inter-generational exploration, Black Boys strives for insight to black identity and opportunity at the nexus of sports, education, and criminal justice. Speaking with an array of figures — ranging from educators, athletes, journalists, activists, parents, and youth — the documentary explores the body, mind, voice, and heart of Black boys and the double edged...
49) Where Are We?
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman set out on the open road through unfamiliar lands - in their own country. Having spent most of their lives on America's coasts, they piled into a van and interviewed ordinary people they met along the way. At a time when the country was sharply divided over the Iraq War and LGBTQ+ issues, WHERE ARE WE? remains a timely document about trying to find common ground and a moving, funny, and important...
50) Carne (Flesh)
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (12 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.
51) Critical Mass
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Things aren't looking too good for the world's population; as we multiply at an alarming rate there is not enough food, space... or sense. With the planet bursting at the seams the intelligence and physiological traits that make us human are now crucial to mankind's survival. This intelligent film interweaves a fascinating 1960s rat experiment with a slick snapshot of today's urban jungle. As a number of disturbing parallels emerge, you can't help...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Through personal stories, photographs and videos, people across America share their firsthand stories of how the global coronavirus pandemic has affected their lives, our nation, and how it has brought us all together.
53) Omar & Pete
Publisher
Nomadic Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
OMAR & PETE are determined to change their lives. Both had been in and out of prison for more than 30 years – never out longer than six months. This intimate and penetrating film follows these two long-time friends for several years after what they hope will be their final prison release. In that time, their lives take divergent paths as one wrestles with addiction and fear while the other finds success and freedom through helping others.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The experience of child poverty against the backdrop of the pandemic and increasing racial tensions. Set in Ohio, follow children and their families navigating issues of poverty, homelessness, race and new challenges due to COVID-19.
55) Digitalkarma
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In a remote village nestled in the foggy hills of northern Bangladesh, Rupa fights against a predetermined destiny. With only a bike, a camera and her knowledge, she defies traditions and tries to make a place for herself in her community. When a twist of fate hits her family, Rupa’s freedom is threatened. Will she be able to maintain the fragile balance between the expectations of her loved ones and her own dreams?
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (35 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
70 percent of Australian marriages will experience an affair, according to Sexual Health Australia - but not all will be found out. This group bravely take a seat to face some harsh questions sent in from the public.
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Despite over 200 years of migration history, many Chinese-Australians continue to feel othered, still having to prove that they belong. We meet 8 Chinese-Australians, all with very different stories.
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (249 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Asking the most outrageous and uncomfortable questions to uncover the truth behind what it's like for marginalised and misunderstood Australians.
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Ex-Footballers Willie Mason, Ian Roberts, Dean Widders and Dan Jackson join Todd Carney, Brock McLean and Jude Bolton to shed the media-trained responses and get real about the game they love - with all its complexities.
60) Finding Home
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The remarkable story of four foster youth preparing for life outside the foster care system. Summer, 17 and transgender, yearns to be adopted. Glorianna, 19 and an artist, struggles to live on her own after spending 12 years in a residential care facility. Jaloni and Kalonji, 18-year-old twins, grew up in poverty, but become star athletes and scholars with the help of two loving adults.
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