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Selling Sex
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Date Issued: 2015
Contributors: Meredith Ralston
Abstract: Selling Sex is a fifty minute documentary about an online escort named Megan whose life's mission is to educate people about the value of sex work. With her down to earth attitude and open style, she befriends the filmmaker, an anti-prostitution activist, and takes her on a journey through the world of middle class sex work. Megan calls out our hypocrisy and prudishness about sex and shows… more
Advanced Style
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Contributors: Lina Plioplyte
Abstract: Advanced Style examines the lives of seven unique New Yorkers whose eclectic personal style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging.From IMDB.
Cinema's First Nasty Women Vol. 1_ Queens of Destruction
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Contributors: Al E. Christie, André Heuzé, George Albert Smith, Lewin Fitzhamon, Romeo Bosetti
Abstract: Rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres. Cinema's First Nasty… more
Cinema's First Nasty Women Vol. 2_ Doubles and Dopplegangers
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Contributors: Florence Turner, Jay Hunt, Jean Durand, Marcel Perez, Romeo Bosetti
Abstract: Rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres including slapstick comedy,… more
Cinema's First Nasty Women Vol. 3_ Gender Adventures
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Contributors: D. W. Griffith, James Young Deer, Richard Wallace, Sidney Olcott, Wallace McCutcheon
Abstract: Rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres. Cinema's First Nasty… more
Cinema's First Nasty Women Vol. 5
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Contributors: Al Christie, Edwin Carewe
Abstract: Rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres. Cinema's First Nasty… more
Cinema's First Nasty Women vol. 4_ Phil for Short
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Abstract: Rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres. Cinema's First Nasty… more
Curative Ayurveda
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Contributors: Gita Desai
Abstract: At once an inspirational journey and a definitive resource, the film weaves together the history and essence of Ayurveda with a detailed examination of the underlying philosophy and its unparalleled ability to harmonize our inner and outer world. A life in perfect balance!With contributions from the world's leading thinkers and practitioners amidst locations of intoxicating beauty, what… more
Cyber Seniors
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Contributors: Saffron Cassaday
Abstract: A humorous and heartwarming feature documentary, CYBER-SENIORS adds to the important international conversation about the growing generation gap. Focusing on a group of senior citizens who take their first steps into cyber-space under the tutelage of teenage mentors, the film expertly renders a thought-provoking look at a spirited group of men and women who are enriched by digitally re-connecting… more
Duty Free
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Contributors: Sian-Pierre Regis
Abstract: After a 75 year-old mother gets fired from her job, her son takes her on a bucket-list adventure to reclaim her life. As she struggles to find work, he documents a journey that uncovers the betrayals plaguing her past and the economic insecurity soon to shape not only her future, but that of an entire generation.From IMDB
Framing Agnes
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Contributors: Chase Joynt
Abstract: FRAMING AGNES turns the talk show format inside out in response to media's ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.From IMDB more
Grow Old Along with Me_ The Poetry of Aging
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Contributors: Anne Macksoud, John Ankele
Abstract: Through many diverse faces (from artists and actors to an opera singer and a Buddhist nun), this DVD takes the viewer on a poignant, engaging journey that shows aging, itself, as an ongoing creative process that fully unravels only when we embrace the richness that the "later half" of our lives can bring.With grounded honesty, these older adults address their creativity, intimacy, being… more
HipHoperation
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Contributors: Bryn Evans
Abstract: Hip Hop-eration is the world's oldest dance crew with an average age of 80 years old. Follow them on their journey from their roots in Waiheke, to the World Hip Hop Championships in Las Vegas. more
Hope in Heaven
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Contributors: Meredith Ralston
Abstract: In the Philippines, prostitution is not just lucrative business – it's an industry. Hope in Heaven, by filmmaker Meredith Ralston, examines the country's sex trade and the young women it traps. Seen through the eyes of two idealistic female students and a male university professor, the film captures two years of Mila's life and the people who befriend her, the poverty and squalor… more