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Nanjing: Japan, The Emperor Memory and Oblivion and The Army A Film by Michaël Prazan A film by Kenichi Watanabe

The Nanjing On August 15, 1945, the Japanese people Massacre was a heard the voice of their Emperor for the series of war first time. In an unprecedented radio crimes commit- broadcast at the end of World War II, ted by Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced the surren- troops in der of Japan. China’s capital JAPAN, THE EMPEROR AND THE during the second Sino-Japanese War. ARMY investigates the Emperor’s role NANJING: MEMORY AND OBLIVION before that day, and after the war. It exam- uses archival footage and photos, inter- ines how Japan’s post-war demilitariza- views with Chinese survivors and eyewit- tion (and the Emperor’s “demotion” to the nesses, former Japanese soldiers, and both level of a “mortal”) continues to resonate Chinese and Japanese government offi- today—in Japanese politics, national cials, historians and lawyers, to document identity and cultural influence on the the events of “The Rape of Nanking” and international stage. to show how the interpretation of this It provides much-needed context for history has become politicized. understanding the resurgence in Japanese Till today the history of the 1937 “Rape of nationalism, its roots in the American Nanking” is a point of contention management of its post-war occupation, between China and Japan. How is it seen and the challenges and limitations of in each country, and can a shared memory Japan’s pacifist constitution and the coun- ever be constructed? try’s evolving role on the world stage. “A remarkable documentary... retraces with ★★★½ “Informative and thought-provoking, precision the unfolding of events... gives a this is highly recommended.” frightening example of the manipulation of —Video Librarian history.”—Télérama 90 minutes | color | 2009 53 minutes | color | 2006 Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $398 Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $390 now $348 JAPAN JAPAN No More Hiroshima! Heart of the Country Directed by Martin Duckworth Directed by Leonard Kamerling A National Film Board of Canada Production Education Advisor William Parrett Introduces the “hibakusha,” anguished The story of an 2000 Award of Commendation, survivors of the Hiroshima atomic blast, extraordinary Society for Visual Anthropology who fear their experiences will be ignored and principal of a 2000 Film Festival, others will suffer the horrors of nuclear war. rural school in American Anthropological Hokkaido, Japan, Association “Strongly recommended for all programs hat strive to who is driven by 2000 Film Festival, bring current generations to the resolution (carved in his passion for Association for Asian Studies stone on the memorial to the victims of that first atomic educating the heart as well as the mind. 58 minutes | color | 1997 blast) that ‘The error will not be repeated.’ All libraries.” Sale/DVD: $298 —C. Ebenreck, Choice “The visual impact, the characters, the calm pace and 26 minutes | color | 1984 Sale/DVD: $248 now $195 cumulative experience of the children, the school and teachers, Yasutomo and the community are terrific ... A gem.”—Professor of Education Merry White, Boston Japan’s Peace Constitution University, author of The Japanese Educational Challenge Directed by John Junkerman Produced by Yamagami Tetsujiro Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies 2006 Film Festival, Explores the A Film by Michel Quinejure Association for Asian Studies origins of Japan’s Best Documentary, 2005 Constitution in A profile of the Japanese 2007 Film Festival, Kinema Jumpo Awards the ashes of war, architect noted for his use of Association for Asian Studies Best Documentary, 2005 and the signifi- inexpensive construction 2004 Architecture and Urbanism Japan Film PEN Club Awards cance of its materials, such as cardboard Film Festival 70 minutes | color | 2005 famous peace tubes, used in prefab hous- 52 minutes | color | 2000 Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $348 clause, Article 9, ing adopted by the UN High Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $348 and the debates surrounding it, in the 21st century. Commission for Refugees. “Recommended.”—Educational Media Reviews Online “The film shows the initiatives “Powerful!”—Professor Peter Frost, Williams College, of an architect in action who for Education About Asia proposes another way of thinking about housing, an architecture that responds to When Mrs. Hegarty Came to Japan the new needs of contemporary society.” —2004 Architecture and Urbanism Film Festival Catalog A Film by Noriko Sekiguchi

When Noriko Sekiguchi went to Australia to study International Relations she spoke little The Written Face English, but quickly befriended Joyce and Jack Directed by Daniel Schmid Featuring Tamasaburo Bando Hegarty, who became her “second parents.” After Jack died, Joyce expressed a desire to visit Japan. Offers an insight “A visual delight! A poetic meditation into the Japanese on femininity as seen through the WHEN MRS. HEGARTY COMES TO JAPAN is a Kabuki star world of Japanese performing arts.... penetrating examination of cross cultural existence Tamasaburo THE WRITTEN FACE is sure to provoke and exchange. Filled with quirky juxtapositions, Bando, one of the discussion on many levels.” generational gaps, and diverse outlooks on life, the last (and greatest) —Education About Asia film is Noriko’s search for her own identity, shaped “Offers unique insight into Japanese defenders of this 2001 Film Festival, culture.”—Teaching Tolerance by two worlds, as well as Mrs. Hegarty’s immer- ancient and disappearing performing tradition. Association for Asian Studies sion into an alien culture. 58 minutes | color | 1992 89 minutes | color | 1995 Sale/DVD: $298 Sale/DVD: $348

2 ICARUS FILMS SEE PAGE 15 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION 3 KOREA PHILIPPINES Back to the Soil Celso and Cora A Film by Kwon Woo-jung A Film by Gary Kildea

“Demonstrates how difficult it is, even The classic ethnographic film. An intimate portrait of 1984 Biennial Film Prize Winner, for well-educated and determined a young couple and their two children living in a Royal Anthropological Institute individuals, to displace the massive squatter settlement in the Philippines’ capital, Manila. (UK) Grand Prize, 1983 influx of cheap agricultural commodi- “A vivid depiction of the human condition... The viewer London Film Festival ties in the world economic order. aches to make a difference, to do something for these Highly recommended.” people, who have been brought to life by the skill and Best Feature Documentary, 1983 —Educational Media Reviews Online Chicago Film Festival empathy of the filmmaker. Public and college library 2005 Yamagata Documentary audiences will find much to ponder in this look at how 109 minutes | color | 1983 Sale/DVD: $398 now $348 Film Festival (Japan) the other three-quarters of the world lives.” 2005 Green Film Festival (Korea) —William Ward, Booklist A young Korean couple leaves the city to become 2004 Seoul Independent farmers. They struggle to survive economically Film Festival from the land, while trying to balance their politi- Chain of Love 84 minutes | color | 2004 A Film by Marije Meerman Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $348 cal activism and family life. A film about the Philippines’ second largest export “A comprehensive look at one of the TAIWAN product—maternal love—and how the interna- consequences of the global econ- tional trade in love and care affects the women omy...appropriate for any level of HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-hsien involved, their families, and families in the West. higher education.” A Film by Olivier Assayas —Anthropology Review Database The acclaimed filmmaker of the masterpiece “An excellent and timely documen- Flowers of Shanghai, Hou Hsiao-hsien returns to the tary that focuses on important gender haunts of his youth to talk to childhood friends aspects of work in the global econ- and discuss his films. omy.”—Asian Educational Media “This is extremely valuable information that should inter- Service’s ‘News and Reviews’ est not only critics and fans of Hou’s films, but also film 2003 Award of Excellence, historians who wish to trace the development of Society for Visual Anthropology Taiwanese cinema or find patterns shared by independent 2003 Film Festival, National filmmaking with distinctive regional or national identities. Women’s Studies Association 91 minutes | color | 1996 [The film] helps us understand the autobiographical 2003 Film Festival, Sale/DVD: $348 elements in... his early films, as well as the melancholy Association for Asian Studies yearning, hidden beneath the childhood innocence, for a 50 minutes | color | 2001 home and nation forever lost.”—Professor Gang Gary Xu, Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $348 University of Illinois at Urbana, for the Asian Educational Media Service’s ‘News and Reviews’ People Power A Film by Ilan Ziv From Courtyard House to Block Apartment PEOPLE POWER is a comprehensive examination of “★★★★[4 Stars—Highly A Film by Wynette Yao the use of active non-violence as a means to achieve Recommended] A compassionate and major social reforms. It focuses primarily on the fall literate look at people trying to escape Examines the impact of rapid industrialization on of Pinochet in Chile, the first Palestinian “intifada,” fear and mobilize for their rights... Ziv traditional Chinese housing styles and ways of living. and the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos and the reminds viewers that there are no easy “With an excellent eye for detail [Yao] contrasts tradi- “People Power” revolution in the Philippines. answers to complex issues, and that is tional rural clan (lineage) houses with modern urban why his highly personal program is apartments in Taipei, Taiwan... Although almost any commendable.”—James E. Reppert, general audience should find this video interesting, it is Video Rating Guide for Libraries 23 minutes | color | 1987 most appropriate for college courses in urban sociology, 52 minutes | color | 1989 Sale/DVD: $248 now $195 Sale/DVD: $298 Chinese area studies, religion, and social-cultural anthropology.”—C.F. Emmons, Choice 4 IcarusFilms.com CALL TOLL FREE: 800 876 1710 5 PAPUA NEW GUINEA INDONESIA Advertising Missionaries Shadow Play A Film by Chris Hilton & Gauthier Flaunder A Film by Chris Hilton “Groundbreaking... presents new Follows the mission of a traveling theater evidence that international anti- company (hired by an advertising Communist forces, including the U.S., agency), to bring the consumer revolution to the helped bring down the Sukarno people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea. regime.”—Asian Pages “A classic among ethnographic films...The strength of 2003 Film Festival, this production lies in its ability to raise... critical issues Association for Asian Studies 1997 Margaret Mead having to do with the encounter of subsistence village 55 minutes | color | 2002 Sale/DVD: $390 now $348 Film Festival life with the complexities of a hegemonic consumer ethos.”—Pacific Studies 1997 Bilan du Film Ethnographique, Musée de l’Homme “An excellent basis for class discussion, and for building 52 minutes | color | 1996 students’ analytic skills.”—Thomas B. Stevenson, With recently declassified documents and inter- Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $298 Anthropology Review Database views with Indonesians, offers a startling new interpretation of the events that shaped modern Senso Daughters Indonesian history and changed the destiny of A Film by Noriko Sekiguchi Southeast Asia.

Investigates the Japanese army’s mistreat- ment of New Guinean women and CAMBODIA “comfort girls” during World War II. The Nine Lives of Norodom Sihanouk “Chilling! [The film] attains its most subtle brilliance A Film by Gilles Cayatte precisely by allowing the New Guineans to speak for themselves.”— David Desser, Education About Asia By turns Cambodia’s Best of Category, 1991 “Unforgettable! Never sensational or offensive; instead... King, Prime Minister, San Francisco Film Festival [the film] uses interviews in which a common human Prince, Head of State for Best Documentary, 1990 desire for dignity can be seen. Through the contrasting Life, Exile, and Prisoner, Melbourne Film Festival images and voices of the Japanese and Melanesians, this is the life story of 54 minutes | color | 1989 these memories become the stuff of history.” Norodom Sihanouk, Sale/DVD: $298 — David D. Buck, Editor, Journal of Asian Studies which is inextricable from the modern history of Cambodia. SOLOMON ISLANDS “Nourished by rich eyewit- 52 minutes | color | 2008 Since the Company Came ness accounts and based on Sale/DVD: $390 A Film by Russell Hawkins solid archival work. A histor- ical and geopolitical lesson more than the portrait of an 2001 Award of Commendation, In the Solomon Islands extensive logging forces the outmoded monarch, at once odious and Society for Visual Anthropology Haporai people to confront social, cultural and fascinating.”—Télérama 20 01 American ecological disintegration. Anthropological “The film has significant pedagogical value in Association Film Festival anthropological, ecological, and economic instruction… We come to see that the manner of exploitation, which 2002 Association plays on vulnerabilities within traditional societies to the for Asian Studies Film Festival pressures and promises of westernization, has not changed much in the last century.” 52 minutes | color | 2000 Sale: $348 now $298 —Keith Prufer, Dept. of Anthropology, Auburn University, for Anthropology Review Database

6 ICARUS FILMS SEE PAGE 15 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION 7 VIETNAM VIETNAM Agent Orange Kim’s Story: The Road from Vietnam A Film by Masako Sakata A Film by Shelley Saywell

A look at the long-term effects, on U.S. soldiers, The story of Kim Phuc, 2000 Film Festival, the Vietnamese people, and the environment of the subject of perhaps National Women’s Studies Vietnam, of the spraying of Agent Orange on the most famous Association Vietnam during the Vietnam War. photograph of the “A remarkable film... Sakata’s moving film brought back Vietnam War—a story to me memories of the Vietnam War, the war of my of the personal and generation, with great poignancy and power.” public healing of —Roger Pulvers, The Japan Times wounds from this century’s longest, most Special Prize of the Jury, 2008 divisive war. Paris International Film Festival 66 minutes | color | 2007 “A memorable portrait of an admirable woman whose 48 minutes | color | 1996 Sale/DVD (Chaptered) : $298 body scars are daily reminders of the war that she Sale/DVD: $298 cannot forget but claims to forgive”—Booklist First Kill A Film by Coco Schrijber Time of the Locust 2003 Film Festival, National Compellingly brings out the contradictory feelings A Film by Peter Gessner Women’s Studies Association that war evokes—fear and anger, but also seduc- Critically exam- Special Prize, Prix de la Critique, 2002 Rotterdam tion, fascination and excitement. With Michael 1967 Tours Festival of Short Films Film Festival Herr (Apocalypse Now, Dispatches). ines American involvement in First Prize, Protest Film Jury, 2002 Cinema du Reel “Highly Recommended! Profoundly moving. A compel- Vietnam 1966 Manheim Film Festival (Paris) ling portrait of the effect of warfare on the combatant. A through a Golden Dove Award, 1966 52 minutes | color | 2001 excellent teaching aid to explorations of human conduct Sale/DVD: $348 compilation of Leipzig Film Festival and capabilities. As well, this film could really force American, 1966 San Francisco serious introspection by those who may be sure they Japanese and Film Festival could never take a life.” Vietnamese combat footage. One of the first “anti- 13 minutes | b&w | 1966 —Educational Media Reviews Online Vietnam War” films. Sale/DVD: $175

Gao Rang (Grilled Rice) Wandering Souls A Film by Claude Grunspan A Film by Boris Lojkine

2003 Notable Video for Adults, The story of the North Vietnamese combat camera- Thirty years after the end of the war against the 2007 Film Festival, Video Round Table, men who filmed the Indo-Chinese & Vietnam United States, three Vietnamese combat veterans Association for Asian Studies American Library Association Wars. Today, much of the footage these cameramen undertake a search for the missing remains of their 84 minutes | color | 2005 2002 Film Festival, and their comrades shot is disappearing. The cost dead comrades. Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $398 Association for of preserving and storing the film is too expensive. Asian Studies “Paying homage to the casualties of the Vietnam War, in Their history (and an important part of ours) is this case the Vietnamese themselves, this film magnifies Editor’s Choice, being “recycled,” for a few bits of silver. the spiritual function of the cinema.” Giant Robot Magazine “Compelling... [GAO RANG] has significant value for —Les Inrockubtibles 52 minutes | color | 2000 Sale/DVD: $348 scholars of Vietnam.” “Beautifully filmed, edited and produced... an excellent ­ —Professor of Sociology Jack Harris, Hobart and William resource.”—Educational Media Reviews Online Smith Colleges, for the Asian Educational Media Service’s ‘News and Reviews’

8 IcarusFilms.com CALL TOLL FREE: 800 876 1710 9 LAOS PAKISTAN From Opium to Chrysanthemums Against My Will A Film by PeÅ Holmquist & Suzanne Khardalian A Film by Ayfer Ergun

The Hmong, in Southeast Asia and America— The stories of three women who took refuge struggling to preserve essential aspects of their at the Dastak women’s shelter in Pakistan, culture, while coping with the enormous changes founded to help women fleeing abusive and forced upon them. murderous families. “Highly Recommended. Tells the story of the Hmong in “Outspoken and poignant. The film does an excellent Thailand, Laos and the U.S., the challenges of breaking job of conveying the horror and humanity of the lives of from the opium economy in Asia and the hopes of these women. The combination of footage from the 2005 Film Festival, maintaining a survivable Hmong culture within the shelter, the legal office and scenes and interviews from National Women’s Studies 2002 Film Festival, radically different social fabric of America.” Kubra’s village and family make AGAINST MY WILL a Association Association for Asian Studies —Educational Media Reviews Online very powerful statement against ‘honor killings.’” 2004 Film Festival, 75 minutes | color | 2000 —Al Jadid, A Review & Record of Arab Culture and Arts Association for Asian Studies Sale/DVD: $348 50 minutes | color | 2002 Sale/DVD: $348 SOUTH ASIA Dishonored Division of Hearts A Film by Sigrun Norderval & Gard A. Andreassen A Film by Satti Khanna & Peter Chappell The story of Mukhtar Mai, whose demands for Ordinary people from Pakistan, India, justice after being raped, led to an historic series and Bangladesh recount their tumultuous of legal proceedings in Pakistan, and media experiences after the 1947 British subdivision of coverage worldwide. colonial India. “The film’s focus...does an exceptional job of showing “Tells the survivors’ stories in graphic and realistic the intricacies of legal proceedings in Pakistan and how descriptions and visuals. Recommended.” gender inequality, politics, religion, and activism influ- —Landers Film & Video Reviews ence these proceedings.” “Poignant... an interesting video well worth viewing by —Asian Educational Media Service (Spring 2011) 52 minutes | color | 2007 57 minutes | color | 1987 Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $348 Sale/DVD: $298 South Asian scholars and students.” —W.W. Reinhardt, Choice INDIA BANGLADESH Dam/Age: A Film with Arundhati Roy That’s Why I’m Working A Film by Aradhana Seth A Film by Maarten Schmidt & Thomas Doebele Traces renowned, prize winning writer Arundhati Roy’s bold and controversial campaign against the A look at child labor in Bangladesh, a primary Narmada dam project in India. school in Dacca, and some of the working children who attend it. “A moving, vividly potent film about the destructive effects of corporate greed and unchecked globalization, “Illuminates multi-faceted and often contradictory as well as the story of one woman’s bold, admirable views by correctly depicting the broad dimensions of decision to place the needs of her country above her 2005 Film Festival, National the child labor issue in context. This film links these own. [DAM/AGE] effectively combines Roy’s compas- Women’s Studies Association crucial issues with sociocultural, economic, and sociopo- sionate testimony with urgent documentary footage of 2001 Film Festival, litical aspects from a multidisciplinary perspective.” 2004 Film Festival, Association for Asian Studies the people and places that would be devasted by the American Sociological Association —Asian Educational Media Service 2000 Film Festival, Narmada project’s completion. Highly Recommended!” 2004 Film Festival, Middle East Studies Association —Video Librarian Association for Asian Studies 53 minutes | color | 1999 50 minutes | color | 2002 Sale/DVD: $298 Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $348

10 ICARUS FILMS SEE PAGE 15 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION 11 INDIA INDIA I for India Litigating Disaster A Film by Sandhya Suri A Film by Ilan Ziv

A chronicle of immigration, from the Sixties to the December 3, 1984. Bhopal, India. The worst chemi- present day, as seen through the eyes of one Asian cal disaster of all time. How has Union Carbide family and their 40 years worth of Super 8mm manipulated the US and Indian legal systems for home movies. 20 years to avoid facing justice? “Sandhya Suri’s moving documentary about her family’s “Highly Recommended! Chronicling one of the worst immigration experiences... shows how rich and difficult industrial disasters in world history, this documentary the issue of ‘Indian-ness’ is for both Indians with rela- raises a series of important questions... Eyewitness 2005 Annual Conference on Charles C. Guggenheim Emerging tives abroad and overseas Indians.” testimonies provide a vivid picture of the human suffer- South Asia (University of Wisconsin) Artist Award, 2006 Full Frame —Eric Hung, Film & History ing caused by the gas leak at the Union Carbide 2005 Midwest Conference on Documentary Film Festival plant.”—Educational Media Reviews Online Asian Affairs 70 minutes | color | 2005 52 minutes | color | 2004 Sale/DVD: $348 Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $39 Kumar Talkies No Silence in this Court A Film by Pankaj Rishi Kumar A Film by Elisabeth Dubreuil

In Kalpi, a small city in northern India, Kumar The story of the Open Court, a popular, alternative Talkies is the only movie theater in town. This film legal system in the Indian state of Gujarat. juxtaposes life in the village, with the world of “A delightful film that can be enjoyed on many levels. It rebellion and romance on the silver screen. successfully tells the story of this alternative justice “A remarkable documentary exposition of the role of system, while at the same time giving a view of Indian cinema as an entertainment device in India. This is village life. It also gives much needed attention to the documentary film at its best, telling a variety of stories condition of the adivasis, presenting their lives in a 2001 Film Festival, in ways that are both recognizable and counterintuitive, sensitive yet honest way. It could easily be used for a Association for Asian Studies entertaining and poignant.”—Politics and Culture high school social studies class or in a number of under- graduate courses on India, including introductory 52 minutes | color | 2001 2001 Film Festival, Sale/DVD: $348 Society for Cinema Studies surveys, cultural anthropology, sociology, or indeed, criminal justice. A fine film.” 1999 Indian National Award for Best Audiography —Professor of South Asian History Karl J. Schmidt, Missouri Southern State College, for the Asian 76 minutes | color | 1998 Sale/DVD: $398 Educational Media Service ‘News and Reviews’ The Last Market Still, the Children are Here A Film by Shuchen Tan Directed by Dinaz Stafford Produced by Mira Nair Documents the efforts of the multinational corpo- A portrait of the Garo people of India, for whom ration Philips to reach the more than five billion cultivating rice is a way of life and worship, this potential consumers among the world’s poor, the film not only describes an indigenous culture, but “bottom of the economic pyramid.” But can profit- the essential nature of humanity. ability fight poverty? The film features an inter- view with C.K. Prahalad, Professor of Corporate “Highly Recommended. This exceptionally well-produced Strategy at the University of Michigan and author documentary provides an engrossing portrait of a... of the global best-seller, The Fortune at the Bottom culture in transition. Produced in association with the 2007 International Documentary of the Pyramid, and its focus is on Philips’ efforts International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 85 minutes | color | 2003 Film Festival Amsterdam in India. this is a beautifully photographed and edited field Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $348 48 minutes | color | 2007 study. Excellent.”— Educational Media Reviews Online Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $348

12 IcarusFilms.com CALL TOLL FREE: 800 876 1710 13 CHINA Seeds of Hunger The dGenerate Films Collection NEW A Film by Yves Billy & Richard Prost Icarus Films is proud to be the exclusive distributor of The dGenerate Films Collection of A global investigation into the evolving nature of contemporary independent film from mainland China. Founded in 2008, dGenerate Films is food production, and the crisis it may portend. dedicated to acquiring and promoting visionary content, fueled by transformative social change “Attractive and useful film that can be effectively and digital innovation. The collection now includes over 40 films, including (For example!) utilized as a teaching tool in courses on economic devel- BEIJING BESIEGED BY WASTE—Wang Jiu-liang travels to more than 500 landfills, opment and international economic relations.” documenting Beijing’s unholy cycle of consumption. —Leonardo Reviews GAI SHANXI AND HER SISTER—One woman’s brutal ordeal as a “comfort woman” for Best Documentary, 2009 the Japanese Army during World War II. Bourges International Festival of Environmental Films Complete information And for information on 52 minutes | color | 2008 Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $390 on all of the the narrative, feature documentary films in films—including the new The dGenerate Films film by Tibet’s leading Women of the World Collection is at filmmaker Pema Tseden, A Film by Marie France Collard OLD DOG —go here Focusing on Levi Strauss & Co., examines the relocation of factories from Western countries to http://www.icarusfilms.com/subjects/dgendoc.html http://www.icarusfilms.com/subjects/dgennarr.html nations like Indonesia, the Philippines, and Turkey, where low wages are the rule and employee rights are nonexistent. INDIA “Informative... Exposes the treatment of garment Anand Patwardhan production employees. The viewer will learn of the conditions which plague these women daily: low wages, Icarus Films has long distributed the films of Anand Patwardhan. An award- 2004 Film Festival, strenuous schedules, ambiguous contracts, and the winning filmmaker who has been making political documentaries for three National Women’s Studies constant threat of job loss due to company relocation decades, he has relentlessly pursued diverse and controversial issues that are 2003 Film Festival, and/or closure.”—Educational Media Reviews Online at the crux of social and political life in India. For more information about Association for Asian Studies Anand Patwardhan and the ten films of his that we distribute, visit this page 53 minutes | color | 2000 Sale/DVD: $348 on our website: http://www.icarusfilms.com/filmmakers/patw.html

The World’s Next Supermodel Ordering Information A Film by IJsbrand van Veelen Please refer to Order Numbers on all Orders. Asia, Brazil or Western Europe—which will be the Sales: DVDs are “leased for the life of world’s next economic superstar? the DVD.” “This work is simply outstanding. … Though the debate Previews: DVDs may be previewed for becomes slightly pointed at times, the arguments are purchase consideration by established made in a constructive manner. The content is very well video libraries. structured, with consistent ‘outlined’ text headings, Ordering: Submit all orders by purchase such as ‘Crisisproof?’ used for each of the three models. order, on official institutional letterhead, or pay in advance of shipping. 48 minutes | color | 2009 This is an excellent work for anyone interested in exam- Sale/DVD (Chaptered): $348 ining present economic models and forecasting the state of the global economy by 2020. Highly 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Email: [email protected] Recommended.”—Michael Coffta (Business Reference Brooklyn, NY 11201 Web: www.IcarusFilms.com Librarian, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania), Tel: (718) 488-8900 | (800) 876-1710 Educational Media Reviews Online Fax: (718) 488-8642 14 IcarusFilms.com 15 PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID Ripon Printers 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 www.IcarusFilms.com (800) 876-1710

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