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Dear New Day Films customers:
We’re pleased to offer you two new films this spring and another film newly out on DVD
In this Spring 2004 issue of the New Day Films e-newsletter you’ll find:
NEW FILMS -- Teens talk frankly about bullying & a Nevada town investigates a cancer cluster.
NEW DVD -- How can art revitalize a community?
DISCOUNTS -- How to get 10-15% off at http://www.newday.com
NEWS & HONORS -- What’s new from your favorite filmmakers?
NEW FILMS
LET’S GET REAL
by Debra Chasnoff, Helen S. Cohen & Kate Stilley
Name-calling and bullying have reached epidemic proportions in schools today. Let's Get Real gives young people the chance to speak up in their own words about the real issues behind the problem. With amazing courage and candor, the students featured in Let’s Get Real discuss racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, disabilities, religious differences, sexual harassment and more. From the youth who are targeted to the students who pick on them to those who find the courage to intervene, Let’s Get Real examines bullying from the full range of perspectives. This poignant film educates audiences of all ages about why we can no longer accept name-calling and bullying as just a normal rite of passage. Recommended for students in grades six through nine and all adults who work with or care for them.
"Riveting…Though much has been written and produced (on bullying) since the Columbine shootings, what sets Let’s Get Real apart is the students’ voices…They are impossible to ignore." -- San Francisco Chronicle
VHS/ 35 minutes, with study guide
Institutional price: $249
High school/public library/community group price: $99
Rental price: $75
FALLON, NV: DEADLY OASIS
by Amie Williams
Since 1999, sixteen children have been diagnosed with leukemia in the small, Navy town of Fallon, Nevada. Three children have died. This film probes the loaded question of a “cancer cluster” through the eyes of the children and their parents, who challenge medical, government and military experts, desperate for answers to what has turned the "oasis in the desert" into a nightmare place to live.
Due to recent medical advances, for the first time in history, the town of Fallon may be able to provide much-needed answers to the impact environmental hazards can have on health. While kids undergo excruciating spinal taps and parents break down, the community is stretched to the breaking point.
An ITVS/Lincs Production with KLVX-PBS Las Vegas
Festivals
The Hot Springs International Documentary Film Festival
**Lake Arrowhead Film Festival, Best Documentary**
Hazel Wolfe Environmental Film Festival, Seattle
Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, Nevada City
Singapore International Film Festival
Special screening
Capitol Hill, U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Health, Washington, D.C.
VHS/60 minutes
Institutional price: $175
High school/public library/community group price:$75
Rental price: $50
NEW ON DVD
DOWNSIDE UP
Nancy Kelly’s award-winning film about a town revitalized by an art museum is now out on DVD. For the same price as the VHS, the Downside UP DVD has digital video and audio and eight chapter stops.
DISCOUNTS
Take 10 percent off by ordering two of our films and 15 percent off for ordering three or more films. The discount applies to our entire collection, but in April, we’re highlighting films about city planning, transportation and community economics. We hope you’ll sample the following films:
The Chicago Maternity Story (60 min.)
Women fight for the survival of a home-birth center
Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street (58 min.)
The award-winning documentary about community vision, struggle, and change
Home Economics: a documentary of suburbia (47 min.)
An ethnographic look suburban sprawl
The Last Pullman Car (56 min.)
The fight to stop the closing of the Pullman factory
Made in Brooklyn (55 min.)
Urban manufacturing and the future of our cities
Metropolitan Avenue (58 min.)
Women fighting for a Brooklyn community
Taken for a Ride (52 min.)
Why Does America Have the Worst Public Transit in the Industrialized World, and the Most Freeways?
Tango 73: A Bus Rider's Diary (28 min.)
A street-level view of public transit woes
HONORS & SCREENINGS
DADDY & PAPA
Johnny Symons' film about gay fathers has been nominated for Outstanding Documentary at the 15th Annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards. The Taiwan Association of Visual Ethnography will screen the film throughout Taiwan this spring and members of Iceland's parliament are screening it to craft legislation on gay adoption.
THE COLLECTOR OF BEDFORD STREET
Alice Elliot’s film about a disabled man and his community received a Christopher Award, honoring programs that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit." The Video Librarian recently called the film "a striking, moving, beautiful glimpse into the life of a man with less brains, perhaps, but more heart than most... "
STYLE WARS
Tony Silver’s definitive film on hip hop culture will screen at more than 20 college campuses this spring at film festivals and as part of a hip hop film event sponsored by Toyota Scion. Campuses will include the University of Minnesota and Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
Sarah Feinbloom's documentary about American teenagers, spirituality and freedom of religion, screens this April at the First Annual Artivist Film Festival in Hollywood’s Egyptian Theater and at the American Academy of Religion’s 2004 Annual Meeting in November. The School Library Journal recently said What Do You Believe? is "an outstanding documentary, a magnificent undertaking...the dialogue is from the heart."
IT’S ELEMENTARY: TALKING ABOUT GAY ISSUES IN SCHOOL
The Philadelphia public school district recently gave each of its 300 schools a copy of Debra Chasnoff and Helen S. Cohen’s film about whether and how gay issues should be discussed in schools. "This video was chosen over others because of the way it frames the issues facing gay and lesbian people," said school district manager Janey Tedesco. "The voices of the students provide a reality check for those who believe that elementary-age children are 'too young' to discuss this issue."
NO LOITERING
Check out the new study guide for Ellen Frankenstein’s stereotype-breaking film about (and by) Alaskan teenagers defining their world.
YIDL IN THE MIDDLE
Marlene Booth's film about growing up Jewish in Iowa will be broadcast as part of City University of New York - CUNY-TV's - "Celebration of 350 Years of Jewish Life in America."
WOMEN OF THE WALL
Faye Lederman’s film about a feminist prayer group in Jerusalem recently screened at the Middle East Studies Association conference in Anchorage, Alaska, and at the Miami Jewish Film Festival.
TANGLED ROOTS
Heidi Schmidt Emberling's film about having a German father and Jewish mother has screened in continuing education programs at synagogues around the San Francisco Bay Area, including Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco, Oakland's Hadassah chapter, the Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center and Temple Beth El and Peninsula Temple Sholom on the Peninsula. The film also aired on the Jewish Broadcasting Network in Chicago.
LETTERS NOT ABOUT LOVE
Jacki Ochs’ poetic dialogue between an American and a Russian poet will screen in competition at the Crossroads Film Festival in Jackson, Mississippi from April 1-4.
TALES FROM ARAB DETROIT
Filmmaker Joan Mandell is currently finishing an epilogue to her film, revisiting six Arab Detroiters to see how they’ve been impacted by 9/11. The epilogue will be added to the film later this year. Joan has lectured widely since 9/11, including stints at the University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada) and the University of Michigan .
ANYTHING YOU WANT TO BE
Liane Brandon's classic comedy about sex-role stereotypes will be featured at the Donnell Media Center of the New York Public Library on March 25th to celebrate Women's History Month. Another of Liane’s films, Betty Tells Her Story, is the subject of an article entitled "Historians of the Self: Restoring Lives, Revising Identities" by Elliot G. Mishler, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. It will appear in April in the journal Research in Human Development.
NO DUMB QUESTIONS
Melissa Regan’s child’s-eye view of transgender transformation was featured on several college campuses, including Ohio State University, during the November 20th Transgender Day of Remembrance. "An invaluable tool for diversity education and raising consciousness about transgender issues,” said Benjamin Davidson, Director, LGBT Resource Center, Stanford University. Said Library Journal: "Any public and any academic library collection (especially a gender studies or social work collection) would be enriched."
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