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Back to the Roots: Kastom Gaden
directed by Larry Thomas, 1961- (New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization), 2008), 24 mins
A short film on the re-introduction of traditional farming practices in the Solomon Islands.
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directed by Larry Thomas, 1961- (New Caledonia: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization), 2008), 24 mins
Description
A short film on the re-introduction of traditional farming practices in the Solomon Islands.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Larry Thomas, 1961-, Rita Narayan, fl. 2011
Author / Creator
Larry Thomas, 1961-
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization)
Speaker / Narrator
Rita Narayan, fl. 2011
Topic / Theme
Global Indigenous Perspectives, Solomon Islander, Non-governmental organizations, Food supply, Ecology, Solomon Islanders, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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©2008
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Behind the Fence
directed by Lindsay Branham, fl. 2010; produced by Jonathan Olinger, fl. 2016, RYOT (Los Angeles, CA: RYOT, 2016), 9 mins
"Behind the Fence" looks inside the 5x5 square mile camp that imprisons the Rohingya muslim minority in Myanmar, and investigates the extremist Buddhists who propagate virulent anti-Muslim sentiment across the country.
Behind the Fence profiles Abul, a husband who does everything he can to try to help his sick w...
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directed by Lindsay Branham, fl. 2010; produced by Jonathan Olinger, fl. 2016, RYOT (Los Angeles, CA: RYOT, 2016), 9 mins
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"Behind the Fence" looks inside the 5x5 square mile camp that imprisons the Rohingya muslim minority in Myanmar, and investigates the extremist Buddhists who propagate virulent anti-Muslim sentiment across the country.
Behind the Fence profiles Abul, a husband who does everything he can to try to help his sick wife, Barbulu, a twelve-year-old boy whose future is diminished due to the constraints of living in this open air prison, and U Wirathu,...
"Behind the Fence" looks inside the 5x5 square mile camp that imprisons the Rohingya muslim minority in Myanmar, and investigates the extremist Buddhists who propagate virulent anti-Muslim sentiment across the country.
Behind the Fence profiles Abul, a husband who does everything he can to try to help his sick wife, Barbulu, a twelve-year-old boy whose future is diminished due to the constraints of living in this open air prison, and U Wirathu, the Buddhist leader of the 969 movement who stokes public support for restrictive laws that have rendered the Rohingya stateless in their own land.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
360VR
Contributor
Jonathan Olinger, fl. 2016, RYOT
Author / Creator
Lindsay Branham, fl. 2010
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
RYOT
Topic / Theme
Rohingya
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2016 Oath Inc
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Beyond the Wall
directed by Mikkel Cantzler, fl. 2018 and Mikkel Keldorf, fl. 2014; produced by Mikkel Cantzler, fl. 2018, RYOT, RaFILM and Mikkel Keldorf Media (Los Angeles, CA: RYOT, 2018), 7 mins
The Northern Triangle' region in Central America is among the most deadly places on Earth. Meet the people fleeing the area and follow them on the most dangerous journey of their life towards the US border.
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directed by Mikkel Cantzler, fl. 2018 and Mikkel Keldorf, fl. 2014; produced by Mikkel Cantzler, fl. 2018, RYOT, RaFILM and Mikkel Keldorf Media (Los Angeles, CA: RYOT, 2018), 7 mins
Description
The Northern Triangle' region in Central America is among the most deadly places on Earth. Meet the people fleeing the area and follow them on the most dangerous journey of their life towards the US border.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
360VR
Contributor
Mikkel Cantzler, fl. 2018, RYOT, RaFILM, Mikkel Keldorf Media
Author / Creator
Mikkel Cantzler, fl. 2018, Mikkel Keldorf, fl. 2014
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
RYOT
Topic / Theme
Immigration and emigration
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2018 Oath Inc
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Brooks: The City of 100 Hellos
directed by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008; produced by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008, Brandy Y Productions (Canada: Brandy Y Productions, 2011), 47 mins
The documentary Brooks – The City of 100 Hellos by Canadian filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk gives us a rare glimpse into the lives of many of the new immigrants, refugees and temporary foreign workers that have moved to Brooks, Alberta, Canada. It also explores the challenges they face and looks at how long-time reside...
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directed by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008; produced by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008, Brandy Y Productions (Canada: Brandy Y Productions, 2011), 47 mins
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The documentary Brooks – The City of 100 Hellos by Canadian filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk gives us a rare glimpse into the lives of many of the new immigrants, refugees and temporary foreign workers that have moved to Brooks, Alberta, Canada. It also explores the challenges they face and looks at how long-time residents of Brooks feel about the new immigration in their community.The documentary is set in Brooks, Alberta, a western Canadian city know...
The documentary Brooks – The City of 100 Hellos by Canadian filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk gives us a rare glimpse into the lives of many of the new immigrants, refugees and temporary foreign workers that have moved to Brooks, Alberta, Canada. It also explores the challenges they face and looks at how long-time residents of Brooks feel about the new immigration in their community.The documentary is set in Brooks, Alberta, a western Canadian city known for its farming, cowboys and oil patch workers. About 10 years ago the local meat packing plant, XL Foods Lakeside Packers Inc., starting bringing over and employing about 2,000 workers from across the world; some temporary foreign workers, others new immigrants and refugees in Canada.Many don’t speak English and have come to Brooks to make about $14 an hour, paying for their lives here in the city but also supporting their families back home.The new immigrants have physically changed this traditional cattle ranching city. Schools teaching English as a second language have been popping up across town as well as different multicultural churches, a mosque and ethnic stores. It is now believed that over 100 languages are spoken in Brooks.“Brooks is unique,” says Brooks Mayor Martin Shields. “It was basically 14,000 in population who changed in 10 years from basically one culture, one language to representing as many as 60 to 70 different countries with many languages and dialects.”
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008, Brandy Y Productions
Author / Creator
Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Brandy Y Productions
Speaker / Narrator
Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008
Topic / Theme
Employment opportunities, Immigrant life, Immigrant populations
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011 Brandy Yanchyk
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Claiming Space in the Conversation
(New York, NY: WSJ, 2018), 18 mins
Morgan DeBaun, founder and CEO of Blavity Inc. and Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult" and "Real American" speak with WSJ Editor Andrew LaVallee about how we can change the narrative about race in 2018."
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(New York, NY: WSJ, 2018), 18 mins
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Morgan DeBaun, founder and CEO of Blavity Inc. and Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult" and "Real American" speak with WSJ Editor Andrew LaVallee about how we can change the narrative about race in 2018."
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Panel discussion
Contributor
Andrew Lavallee, fl. 2005, Morgan Debaun, 1990-, Julie Lythcott-Haims, 1967-
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
WSJ
Topic / Theme
Race and culture
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2018 Knowledgemotion Ltd
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CNN Special Report, Secret State: Inside North Korea
produced by Cable News Network (CNN), in CNN Special Report (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2017), 41 mins
With tensions near boiling point and most Americans now banned from visiting North Korea, CNN cameras go inside the secretive nation to places few outsiders have ever seen. Reported by CNN international correspondent Will Ripley – who has been to North Korea 15 times in the last three years.
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produced by Cable News Network (CNN), in CNN Special Report (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2017), 41 mins
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With tensions near boiling point and most Americans now banned from visiting North Korea, CNN cameras go inside the secretive nation to places few outsiders have ever seen. Reported by CNN international correspondent Will Ripley – who has been to North Korea 15 times in the last three years.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Cable News Network (CNN)
Author / Creator
Will Ripley, 1981-
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Cable News Network (CNN)
Series
CNN Special Report
Person Discussed
Kim Jong-un
Topic / Theme
North Korea and International Relations, Economics, Politics & Policy, Law, Anthropology, Geography, North Koreans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2017 Cable News Network
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Compañeras
directed by Elizabeth Massie and Matthew Buzzell; produced by Elizabeth Massie and Matthew Buzzell (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2009), 1 hour
Musically stunning and emotionally compelling this film follows a group of Latina musicians as they break the gender barrier to perform mariachi music in America with passion and gusto. Long the purview of male musicians, the 12 member Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles was the first all female mariachi band. Since the...
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directed by Elizabeth Massie and Matthew Buzzell; produced by Elizabeth Massie and Matthew Buzzell (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2009), 1 hour
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Musically stunning and emotionally compelling this film follows a group of Latina musicians as they break the gender barrier to perform mariachi music in America with passion and gusto. Long the purview of male musicians, the 12 member Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles was the first all female mariachi band. Since their inception in 1994, other female groups have been formed who perform professionally, expanding the popularity of the music, which is...
Musically stunning and emotionally compelling this film follows a group of Latina musicians as they break the gender barrier to perform mariachi music in America with passion and gusto. Long the purview of male musicians, the 12 member Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles was the first all female mariachi band. Since their inception in 1994, other female groups have been formed who perform professionally, expanding the popularity of the music, which is an important part of their cultural heritage. Along with a brief history of mariachi music, the film interweaves portraits of the women who often find their personal lives conflict with their desire to be full-time musicians. The issues raised are universal to women everywhere: how to balance family life with career, how to achieve equal pay, and how to deal with emotional conflict. Companeras offers rich material for discussion as well as engaging performances! High School College Adult
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Performance
Contributor
Elizabeth Massie, Matthew Buzzell
Author / Creator
Elizabeth Massie, Matthew Buzzell
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Revolution and Protest context, Music and Social Change, Mexican-American, Gender status, Women's issues, The Arts, Ethnography, Latinos
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2009. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Discovering Dominga
directed by Patricia Flynn, fl. 2002; produced by Patricia Flynn, fl. 2002, Jaguar House Films (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 2002), 57 mins
This unforgettably dramatic and powerful documentary relates the extraordinary story of a young Iowa housewife who discovers she is a survivor of one of the most horrific massacres in Guatemalan history, committed in 1982 against Maya Indian villagers who resisted a dam project funded by the World Bank. The film f...
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directed by Patricia Flynn, fl. 2002; produced by Patricia Flynn, fl. 2002, Jaguar House Films (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 2002), 57 mins
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This unforgettably dramatic and powerful documentary relates the extraordinary story of a young Iowa housewife who discovers she is a survivor of one of the most horrific massacres in Guatemalan history, committed in 1982 against Maya Indian villagers who resisted a dam project funded by the World Bank. The film follows her remarkable journey of transformation and discovery as she returns to Guatemala in search of her heritage and ultimately join...
This unforgettably dramatic and powerful documentary relates the extraordinary story of a young Iowa housewife who discovers she is a survivor of one of the most horrific massacres in Guatemalan history, committed in 1982 against Maya Indian villagers who resisted a dam project funded by the World Bank. The film follows her remarkable journey of transformation and discovery as she returns to Guatemala in search of her heritage and ultimately joins efforts to bring the perpetrators of the massacre to justice and to promote peace and reconciliation in her native country.Dominga Sic Ruiz was nine years old when, during the bloody Guatemalan civil war, she escaped while paramilitary and army forces murdered her mother and 76 other women and 107 children in the Maya village of Rio Negro. She was eventually adopted and grew up in small-town America, where she became a "normal" teenager named Denese and later married. She buried her past so deeply it became transformed in adulthood into doubts and nightmares, until events brought her to face the truth.Beautifully photographed in Iowa and amid the stunning landscapes of the Guatemalan highlands, the film follows her emotional reconnection with lost relatives, with a rich indigenous culture, and with the violent history in which her beloved adopted country -- the United States -- played a sinister role. Dominga joins the Maya community in the dangerous effort to demand the exhumation of a clandestine mass grave, and later provides testimony in a landmark genocide case, thus becoming part of a global grassroots struggle for justice and human rights."Discovering Dominga" is a compelling and inspiring story that will engage student interest and provoke reflection and discussion in a wide variety of courses in Latin American studies, cultural anthropology, Third World studies, human rights, women's studies, American history and studies, and sociology. It was produced and directed by Patricia Flynn and co-produced by Mary Jo McConahay for the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with KQED with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Patricia Flynn, fl. 2002, Jaguar House Films
Author / Creator
Patricia Flynn, fl. 2002
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
Berkeley Media
Topic / Theme
Civil war, Peace processes, Criminal justice, Survivors, Guatemalans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2002 Berkeley Media
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Facing the Future
directed by Leonard A. Lies, 1955-; produced by Dream Catchers Films (Pittsburgh, PA: Dream Catchers Films, 2016), 12 mins
In Uganda, gender violence is a serious, hidden problem as a means of solving domestic disputes, jealousy feuds, business, and political differences. Knives, guns, and physical attacks are the most commonly used weapons, but the most horrific weapon is acid. A hired killer purchases acid for less than {dollar}1.00...
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directed by Leonard A. Lies, 1955-; produced by Dream Catchers Films (Pittsburgh, PA: Dream Catchers Films, 2016), 12 mins
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In Uganda, gender violence is a serious, hidden problem as a means of solving domestic disputes, jealousy feuds, business, and political differences. Knives, guns, and physical attacks are the most commonly used weapons, but the most horrific weapon is acid. A hired killer purchases acid for less than {dollar}1.00 and will throw a bottle of acid onto a person’s face and body with the intent of disfiguring and disabling the victim forever. Repor...
In Uganda, gender violence is a serious, hidden problem as a means of solving domestic disputes, jealousy feuds, business, and political differences. Knives, guns, and physical attacks are the most commonly used weapons, but the most horrific weapon is acid. A hired killer purchases acid for less than {dollar}1.00 and will throw a bottle of acid onto a person’s face and body with the intent of disfiguring and disabling the victim forever. Reported acid attack victims in Uganda number at around five hundred, though thousands are undocumented and remain hidden in their villages outside of public view. Twelve acid attack survivors refused to remain hidden and isolated. Through the encouragement of Hanifa and Ritah, both acid attack survivors, they all met for the first time on June 25, 2014, in a small village in Uganda. This was the first time they removed their scarves, veils, and masks in public and shared their stories of survival and hopes for the future. The film "Facing the Future" captured this momentous day as each survivor bravely faced the camera to tell their story. They talked about their former lives, recalled their brutal attacks, and how they survived the painful journey back to recovery. They also spoke about the reasons behind such brutal attacks. Most of all, the film captures the survivors’ dreams and hopes for their future, and shows their strength and desire to regain their dignity and human rights.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Dream Catchers Films
Author / Creator
Leonard A. Lies, 1955-
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Dream Catchers Films
Topic / Theme
Women's rights, Social activism and activists, Survivors, Gender-based violence
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2016 Louis A Picard / Pauline Greenlick & Dream Catchers Films Inc
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Finding Edge Road
directed by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008; produced by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008 (Canada: Brandy Y Productions, 2015), 52 mins
This documentary by Canadian filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk explores how the small city of Lieksa in Eastern Finland is dealing with a recent influx of new immigrants from Somalia and Iraq. The newcomers have moved to vacant council apartments on a street called “Edge Road.”Lieksa’s population is aging and with it...
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directed by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008; produced by Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008 (Canada: Brandy Y Productions, 2015), 52 mins
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This documentary by Canadian filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk explores how the small city of Lieksa in Eastern Finland is dealing with a recent influx of new immigrants from Somalia and Iraq. The newcomers have moved to vacant council apartments on a street called “Edge Road.”Lieksa’s population is aging and with its high unemployment rate of twenty percent. many locals are concerned that immigrants will take their jobs or live off government benef...
This documentary by Canadian filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk explores how the small city of Lieksa in Eastern Finland is dealing with a recent influx of new immigrants from Somalia and Iraq. The newcomers have moved to vacant council apartments on a street called “Edge Road.”Lieksa’s population is aging and with its high unemployment rate of twenty percent. many locals are concerned that immigrants will take their jobs or live off government benefits. Residents are also concerned about newcomers not integrating into Finnish society and learning the language, a prerequisite for getting a job in Finland.This change in demographics has caused tensions in the community and led to an increase in racist attacks.The film explores both points of view showing those who see immigration as a positive force and those who are threatened by it. Finding Edge Road was shot over three years by Canadian filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008
Author / Creator
Brandy Yanchyk, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
Brandy Y Productions
Topic / Theme
Conflict of interests, Racism, Immigrant populations, Finnish
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2015 Brandy Yanchyk
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