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Healthcare, Mental Health,Disabilities, Aging, Ethics, and Diversity www.fanlight.com • (800) 876-1710 • Fanlight Productions 1 Welcome to the 2010 Supplement to c o n t e n t s the Fanlight Productions Media Catalog! 3 Aging anlight was founded by independent filmmakers to create a bridge between 4 Cancer / Genetics the producers of educational media and the audiences that rely on their 5 Children’s Health work. Our award-winning collection continues to educate, motivate, and 6 Coping with Illness in Children entertain audiences around the world. FOver the past twenty-eight years, the healthcare and educational media mar- 7 Crime & Corrections / Addictions kets have undergone many changes, but our mission has not changed: to locate 8 Cross-Cultural Issues and select the most creative, relevant, effective, and up-to-date programming on 9 Developmental Disabilities / Autism the subjects that our clients care about and count on Fanlight to deliver. 10 Disabilities For updates about our newest video and DVD releases, announcements about 12 Gender & Sexuality / Women's Health upcoming events, news about our producers, and special discount offers, sign up for our E-Newsletter: go to our website and click on "Join Email List," enter your 13 Grief / Death & Dying email address, and sign up today. 14 Nursing / Healthcare / Public Health PLEASE NOTE: This supplement includes all of our new releases for 2008 15 Psychology / Mental Illness and 2009, as well as some others of our most popular titles. To view our complete collection, visit our website, or call to request our 2008–09 catalog. VISIT OUR WEBSITE to keep up-to-date on our latest releases, take advantage of discounts To place orders by mail, fax or online: and special offers, or sign up for our email newsletter. To order online, with a credit card or P.O. number, visit our website: www.fanlight.com We accept PAYMENT via Master Card, VISA, For questions about an order, shipment, or payment: American Express, and institutional purchase Phone: (800) 876-1710 • E-mail: [email protected] orders. Domestic SHIPPING is $10 on most orders.

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Best New Aging in America: seller Positive Images of Aging The Years Ahead From Terra Nova Films and the Release By Julie Winokur and Ed Kashi Association for Gerontology in Higher Education By 2010 there will be more Americans over 55 than under 18 for the first time. But old age isn’t what This compilation DVD enables instructors and dis- it used to be. Aging in cussion leaders to America offers an often utilize 14 different surprising glimpse into video segments, the real lives of those three to five min- who are reaching their utes in length, each “golden” years in the of which reflects on first part of the twenty- a positive aspect first century. We’re in- of aging. The chap- troduced to aging athletes, activists, wranglers and tered DVD structure offers instant access to any of Alzheimer’s & New strippers, and to inmates growing old in our nation’s the segments, which can be shown individually or Release prisons – and to two rural West Virginia men whose together, and can be incorporated into a classroom African Americans: exceptional friendship has helped them to brave the lecture or PowerPoint. The clips highlight changing Echoes from the Past loss, grieving and isolation of old age. perceptions of aging, intimacy, family ties, grandpar- From Campbell Productions enting, creative aging, and other topics. ➤ International Health and This compelling documentary examines the high Medical Media Awards 56 Minutes, DVD $169 incidence of Alzheimer’s disease in the African Order No. CW-515 American com- ➤ Silver Images Film Festival munity through 56 Minutes, DVD or VHS $199 the experiences of Order No. CW-441 Grey, Black and Blue: families who are Nursing Home Violence providing care for From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation a loved one with Caring at the End of Life Best this devastating seller When elders and their families worry about patient dementia. It inter- By Ben Achtenberg, with abuse in long-term care, they are usually thinking Christine Mitchell, RN, FAAN sperses information from health professionals on about abuse or neglect by staff. But recent studies diagnosis, treatment, genetic factors, financial con- Central to this documentary is the case of a coma- suggest that elders cerns, and caregiver stress. tose patient, whose family and healthcare team are in nursing homes in conflict over how long to continue with the treat- may have more to 27 Minutes, DVD or VHS $159 ments which are keeping him alive. In making deci- fear from their fel- Order No. CW-516 sions about his care, low residents. The they confront disturb- CBC’s concealed ing ethical questions cameras expose The Healing Arts: about patient auto- the reality of what New Pathways to Health nomy vs. the needs of is happening and what is being done – or more often By Ben Mayer, for The Healing Arts Initiative the family, about who not done – about it. This unique program uses the arts in an innovative is in a position to judge 26 Minutes, DVD $219 treatment approach for people living with chronic, what another person Order No. CW-498 disabling physical and would want, about the role and impact of faith, and emotional challenges. about the certainty or fallibility of medical judgment. Featured are a writer The DVD also includes two 15-minute companion Breathe Easy who teaches memoir films for further study. By Keith Parish writing to a group of pa- ➤ CINE Golden Eagle When 78-year-old tients living with cancer – and to their caregiv- ➤ Silver, Houston International Film Festival Lois Perelman’s Em- physema became ers; a dancer who helps 45 Minutes, DVD or VHS $249 severe, she was residents of a Vermont veterans’ home use their Order No. CW-328 devastated at the bodies’ memories to recapture the joys of everyday thought that she life that they may have lost touch with; and a com- would have to carry poser who teaches people with mental illness or an oxygen tank physical and developmental disabilities to use a around for the rest of her life. Today, active and capa- computer program to create complex and original ble, she teaches people to see the person behind the musical pieces. plastic tubes. “I don’t feel like a young person,” she ➤ International Festival of Films on Art says, “because I’m not young. I’m just in good shape. I’m seventy-eight, and I feel terrific.” ➤ Picture This Disability Film Festival ➤ National Mature Media Awards 28 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 Order No. CW-471 8 Minutes, DVD or VHS $129 Order No. CW-483 www.fanlight.com • (800) 876-1710 • Fanlight Productions 3 CANCER / GENETICS

Facing Ovarian Cancer: The Caregivers A Woman’s Guide By Open Eye Pictures By Kay Stammers It’s hard to imagine anything more devastating than Roughly one in every to be told that someone you love has an aggressive hundred women will form of brain cancer. Many family members who have develop ovarian cancer, received this news which usually occurs in have soon after been women over the age of thrust into the unex- 45, though it can occur pected role of care- in younger women as giver, helping their well. Known as a “silent loved one to cope killer” because its symptoms may be vague and non- with and understand specific, it is often not diagnosed until it’s too late the diagnosis, and to follow an unmapped course through a complex and for effective treatment. The highly practical chapters In The Family New of this ground-breaking program are designed for unfamiliar medical system. This remarkable documen- By Joanna Rudnick Release women who have just been diagnosed with ovarian tary follows several patients and their caregivers as cancer, for their families and friends, and for the phy- they face an array of challenges. At the age of 27, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick tested positive for the BRCA gene, sicians and nurses who work with them. “A very important tool for residents. It reminded a familial mutation that drastically increases the ➤ Platinum Award, Worldfest Houston us that when we hear physicians discussing a patient with a brain tumor, there is an entire odds of getting breast and ovarian cancer. “The ➤ New York Festivals, Bronze World Metal family that is being impacted.” last thing I wanted to do — Aimee Vasta, MGI Pharma was talk about it,” she 120 Minutes, DVD $299 says, “so I did everything Order No. CW-502 46 Minutes, DVD $249 Order No. CW-504 possible to forget that I was basically a ticking time bomb.” Yet a few Chasing the Cancer Answer years later, she chose From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Angela’s Journey From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to confront the painful Television host Wendy Mesley had followed all the decisions she faced by Cancer Society’s rules for healthy living, but she Angela is a young mother of two small children. documenting her own still got sick. “I can accept She’s bright, attractive and instantly likeable – and journey through the un- that I have cancer, but I she has terminal breast cancer. This compelling predictable world of can’t accept how com- documentary follows predictive genetic test- mon it is,” she says. “The Angela as she visits ing. Her choices were number of people get- her cancer specialist stark: whether to remove ting cancer is wrong. Our and explores treat- her healthy breasts and failure to do better fight- ment options, while ovaries, giving up the possibility of bearing children, ing this disease is wrong. dealing with her chil- or face a very high risk of dying of cancer. Either We need to be wiser about the world we are creating.” dren and issues of option would have a powerful impact on her quest With the focus on drugs and finding the ever-elusive body image, loneli- for a loving relationship. “While trying to figure out cure, she asks, are we ignoring the importance of ness, and romance. Angela’s goal was to demystify how to have a relationship and live with this crazy prevention through environmental protection? cancer, by being frank about her experiences, includ- information,” she says, “I looked to other women for ing difficult medical procedures. But it was also a answers. In the Family captures a time when science 44 Minutes, VHS or DVD $199 way to reach out to those closest to her, and to help Order No. CW-479 can tell us how we will likely die, but not what to her children face the future. do about it.” ➤ Western Psychological Association ➤ Silverdocs Film Festival 49 Minutes, VHS or DVD $199 ➤ Milan International Film Festival Order No. CW-480 83 Minutes, DVD $289 Order No. CW-509

ABOUT IN THE FAMILY… “A sensitive, provocative, and important film that bravely challenges the stigma and secrecy associated with familial disease, while defending the rights of all to genetic information and equitable health care.” — Elizabeth Edwards, Breast Cancer Survivor

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Good Food/Bad Food Cafeteria Confidential By Allie Light, Irving Saraf, and Nancy Evans From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Too many children watching too much television, Despite public atten- omnipresent ads for fast foods and high-fat snacks, tion to the issue of vending machines in childhood obesity school cafeterias, busy and the demand for schedules, lack of phys- better nutritional ical activity, the decline standards, if you’ve of family meals – it’s a been in a high school perfect recipe for over- cafeteria lately, you weight kids. In a clear, may have noticed that, in most schools, not much has accessible, and often changed. High school student Allison Ewell decided humorous way, Good Food / Bad Food educates and that enough was more than enough, and set out to motivates parents, teachers and policy makers to take do something about it. action to protect children’s health. Montaña de Luz New 11 Minutes, DVD $149 By Matthew Leahy and Elisa Stone Release ➤ International Health & Medical Media Order No. CW-497 On a Honduran mountainside overlook- Competition ing vast fields of sugar cane, a six-year-old ➤ National Health Information Awards Let Them Eat Cake boy named Marlon dreams of becoming an artist. Twelve-year-old Inri dreams of attending univer- 31 Minutes, DVD or VHS $219 By Lisa Kaselak Order No. CW-429 sity. Little Yorleni simply Against the backdrop of the “Texas Cupcake Con- dreams of having a fam- troversy,” this humorous, engaging documentary ily. Meet the children of takes a close look at The Weight of Obesity... the Montaña de Luz or- the processed food phanage, their lives a a balanced reality industry and at the living testament to the By Mickey Freeman ways that junk food beauty and innocence of Obesity is second only to smoking as the leading and beverages are childhood in the face of cause of preventable deaths in the United States. marketed to children adversity beyond their years. Minority and low-income communities have been – a factor believed Honduras has the highest rate of AIDS in Central the hardest hit. Ironi- to be a major con- America, and its saddest victims are children and cally, in the midst of this tributor to today’s epidemic of obesity. Is banning youth. Born to women who are HIV positive, they epidemic, American junk food in schools a “big brother” move to destroy not only bear the burden families are chronically our way of life? of the disease them- undernourished. This ➤ Student Academy Awards Nominee selves, but many will documentary takes an soon be orphaned, often accessible, non-clinical ➤ National Health Information Awards abandoned to the streets. approach that commu- 33 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 At Montaña de Luz nicates the serious consequences of obesity, while Order No. CW-458 (Mountain of Light) they also offering strategies for change. find love, care, education, companionship – and most importantly a place where ➤ National Social Science Association they will not be scorned and discriminated against. Conference At one time the project was thought of as a hospice, ➤ International Health & Medical where most residents would eventually die, but Media Competition new anti-retroviral medications mean that these children have a future. The building that was once 57 Minutes, DVD or VHS $249 Order No. CW-432 planned to be the morgue is now a busy and happy computer center. ➤ Crystal Heart, Heartland Film Festival ➤ Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF OBESITY… ➤ Women in Film Festival, Vancouver “Insightful and important, this film looks at the complex 40 Minutes, DVD $229 Order No. CW-514 issues behind the obesity epidemic in America, which is rapidly becoming our number one public health problem.” — Dr. Andrew Weil, author and Director, Program in Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona

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Training Parent Facilitators The Chemo Ate My Homework By Martha Curley By Craig Leake While understanding the pain and frustration that Kids with cancer are kids first. In between their parents experience at being parted from a child surgeries, radiation, and chemotherapy, they want about to undergo CPR or an invasive procedure, and need to continue many clinicians fear that allowing parents to be with the things that present in emergency make up their ordi- and acute care units nary lives – and one will be distracting or of those things is disruptive. A multi- school. At St. Jude disciplinary group at Children’s Research Children’s Hospital Hospital in Tennes- Boston have devel- see, a brave, dedicated, and exceptionally skilled corps oped an innovative of teachers help to give young patients a measure of Best program to train selected staff members to support normalcy amidst the pain and fear that goes with No Fears, No Tears seller parents in such situations. At the core of the training their illnesses. But not all the kids make it, and teachers By Leora Kuttner, PhD, for process are intensely realistic simulations in which must develop the emotional strength to cope with the Canadian Cancer Society staff members interact with specially trained actors their grief and carry on with those who do. In this film from the mid-1980’s, eight courageous who portray the parents. Produced for the Cardio- children with cancer, aged three to twelve years old, ➤ CINE Special Jury Award vascular Critical Care Nursing Program at Children’s demonstrated a variety Hospital Boston. ➤ Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival of ways in which the natural abilities of the ➤ Silver Award, Worldfest Houston 27 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 mind can be enlisted Order No. CW-485 26 Minutes, DVD $249 to help ease physical Order No. CW-486 pain. With the support Precious Lives, Meaningful Choices of parents and caregivers, they showed how From the University of Calgary Difficult Conversations hypnosis, behavioral distraction and visualization Teaching & Learning Centre in Pediatric Palliative Care methods, and breathing techniques could make the By David Browning, MSW, BCD, Among children with multiple special needs are disease itself, as well as the long series of uncomfort- and Elaine C. Meyer, PhD, RN some whose medical conditions will severely limit able or painful tests and treatments, bearable. their potential lives. Their families struggle to give Demonstrates an innovative approach to training them the best pos- 28 Minutes, DVD or VHS $129 Order No. CW-286 healthcare professionals to respond to the psycho- sible quality of life social needs of very ill while knowing that children and their par- the time they have No Fears, No Tears – Best ents. Specially trained is limited. In this seller actors portray the par- film four families 13 Years Later ents of a comatose share their experi- By Leora Kuttner, PhD five-year-old who has ences. Among the Thirteen years later, Kuttner revisits seven of the same been rushed to the challenges their parents discuss are finding and train- children, to explore the long-term impact of having hospital after a near- ing care assistants; dealing with caregiver turnover; learned as a child how drowning. The responses of the health care team coping with medical staff unfamiliar with these rare to deal with fear and (two young clinicians) are observed by their teachers conditions; meeting the needs of the family’s other pain. These now young and peers on closed-circuit television, and reviewed children; and, most of all, dealing with constant un- adults still vividly recol- in a conference in which all take part, including the certainty about when the end will come. lect their painful child- parent/actors. hood experiences, but ➤ National Health Information Awards ➤ Silver Award, Worldfest Houston they also describe how 41 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 learning to master the 23 Minutes, DVD $199 Order No. CW-464 Order No. CW-506 pain has affected their lives today. Their stories dramatically challenge prevailing myths about childhood pain, demonstrating the power of hypnosis, imagery, breathing and distraction, and proving that children ABOUT NO FEARS, NO TEARS – 13 YEARS LATER… can learn to actively help themselves through taxing medical treatments. “An exquisite resource for professionals, parents, 47 Minutes, DVD or VHS $199 and children with cancer. It is rare that professionals Order No. CW-277 and parents are permitted to hear from survivors on such a personal level.” — Eleanor G. Pask, MScN, EdD, Childhood Cancer Foundation

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Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear Givin’ It Up By Eva Wunderman By W.R. Stanton; produced Methamphetamine, or “crystal meth” as it is some- by Susan Kraus & Robert Gil times known, is the third most abused street drug This disturbing documentary enters the world of three in the world, and has convicted juvenile sex offenders between the ages become the drug of of 15 and 17 (two choice for teenagers in male, one female), small towns across all of whom were North America. Highly themselves sexually addictive, cheap, and abused when they easy to get, meth can were younger. Their cause psychosis, per- victims were as young manent brain damage, and even death. Crystal Fear, as four. It offers a rare Crystal Clear documents a year in the lives of three glimpse into the reality of adolescent sex offenders, A Sentence for Two families devastated by this powerful, seductive drug. and of the professionals who are working to end the New By Randi Jacobs Release The program sheds light on a rapidly growing prob- cycle of sexual exploitation. A Main Point Production lem that affects communities of all sizes across for Reading Specialists Educational Association. Pregnancy inside this Oregon prison Canada and the United States. for women is anything but a joyous ➤ Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film Festival celebration of new life. Women who deliver their ➤ Gold Remi Award, Worldfest Houston ➤ American Psychological Association babies in prison have ➤ American Women in Radio and Television few options; if they can’t 29 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 find a family member to Order No. CW-491 45 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 care for the infant, they Order No. CW-473 will need to place it in foster care, or choose Are the Kids Alright? adoption. In any case, By Karen Bernstein and Ellen Spiro Not A Game the newborn will be By Eva Wunderman With unprecedented access to families, to the courts, separated from its mother at birth, with a very real Cheap, easy to get, and highly addictive, crystal meth and to psychiatric and correctional institutions, this possibility that the two will never be reunited. has become the drug of choice in many areas, not searing documentary Christina, Trisha and Kristin are pregnant, and only for teenagers, but follows several fami- are facing years behind bars. Their newborns will face for younger kids as well. lies to document the an uncertain future. This provocative film tragic results of a The women share the issues a stark warning to catastrophic decline personal details of their young people of all ages, in the availability of pregnancies, incarcera- but is especially aimed appropriate mental tion and deliveries as at those pre-teens and health services for children and adolescents at risk. they struggle with the younger children who From everyday family and developmental stresses to agonizing search for might be influenced by older kids to “experiment.” severe, clinical mental illness, families are struggling safe and healthy homes Engaging classroom scenes show students learning to get the supports they need, but there is very little for their babies – and as one plan after another and practicing ways of dealing with peer pressure, help available to them. falls apart. By contrast, at Bedford Hills Correctional including “refusal skills,” expressing the film’s overall Facility in New York, a study of the development of ➤ United Nations Association Film Festival message that “you have a choice.” babies during their first year of life inside a prison ➤ Picture This Disability Film Festival environment may have a major impact on planning ➤ Special Jury Award, Worldfest Houston to better meet the needs of incarcerated women and ➤ 11 Minutes, DVD or VHS $119 Merit Award, Superfest their babies. Order No. CW-474 57 Minutes, DVD or VHS $269 ➤ Order No. CW-428 Northwest Film & Video Festival ➤ Emory University Workshop on Women, Incarceration and Human Rights ABOUT GIVIN’ IT UP… 58 Minutes, DVD $249 Order No. CW-512 “The film puts a human face on sex abuse. I’ve never seen anything like this before.” — David Fair, Philadelphia Department of Human Services “A must-see film for people who want to take a real-life look at this important issue.” — Maria Testa, New York Independent Film Festival

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Best Best The Culture of Emotions seller Community Voices Worlds Apart By Harriet Koskoff By Jennie Greene & Kim Newell By Maren Grainger-Monsen, seller This cultural competence and diver- This innovative video offers a window into the MD, and Julia Haslett sity training program explores the variety of ways challenges and rewards of cross-cultural healthcare. A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural the diverse cultures of Community Voices uses cancer as a lens to explore Healthcare: These unique trigger films follow America understand mind the many ways that patients and families faced with critical medical de- and body – and the dis- differences in culture, cisions, as they navigate their way through the health orders to which mind race and ethnicity care system. Filmed in and body are subject. It affect health and the patients’ homes, neigh- is designed to introduce delivery of health- borhoods and places of cultural competence and care services. Draw- worship, as well as hos- diversity skills to clini- ing on the insights pital wards and commu- cians and students in psychiatry, psychology, social of nurses, doctors, nity clinics, Worlds Apart work and counseling, medicine and nursing. outreach workers, medical interpreters, and patients provides a balanced yet from a fascinating range of backgrounds, it helps to penetrating look at both ➤ First Place, National Council integrate cultural awareness and skill building into the patients’ cultures and the culture of medicine. on Family Relations training programs for all health professionals. This series is an invaluable tool for raising awareness ➤ International Health and about the role sociocultural barriers play in patient- ➤ International Health and Medical Medical Film Competition provider communication and in the provision of Film Competition healthcare services for culturally and ethnically 58 Minutes, DVD or VHS $299 Order No. CW-361 ➤ American Medical Writers Association diverse patients. ➤ Association of American Medical Colleges ➤ Silver Award, HeSCA The Angry Heart 69 Minutes, DVD or VHS $269 ➤ Silver Hugo, INTERCOM/Chicago Order No. CW-329 By Jay Fedigan 47 Minutes, DVD or VHS $399 African Americans die from heart disease at dis- Order No. CW-912 proportionately higher rates than those of white Karen Refugees: Americans. 45-year-old Keith Hartgrove has already Fleeing Burma’s Forgotten War Hold Your Breath experienced two heart From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation attacks and quadruple By Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD, bypass surgery. Together The Karen are a Christian ethnic group who have and Julia Haslett with a number of experts, been persecuted for years by the military junta of First summarized in the he analyzes the impact of Burma. An estimated 100-150,000 Karen refugees acclaimed Worlds Apart factors including depres- have fled and are series, the story of Mo- sion, stress, diet, smoking, now living in camps hammad Kochi’s dramat- and other lifestyle issues, across the border in ic race with death further but makes clear that, for African Americans, such Thailand – some for unfolds in this haunting factors are inseparable from racism, and from the more than 20 years. documentary, which chro- discrimination, poverty, segregation, substandard The Department of nicles the frustrations that can arise between patients, education, and day-to-day tensions which racism State has recently families, and healthcare providers, and the sometimes engenders. waived restrictions life-threatening consequences of miscommunication. preventing Karen resettlement in the United States. Mr. Kochi faces possible death from stomach cancer. ➤ Best Documentary, New Hampshire Film Expo This documentary looks at the situation inside Burma As they treat the disease, his American doctors try to ➤ International Health and Medical Film and Thailand, before following one Karen woman and comprehend his faith and respect his viewpoints, but Competition her family as they embark on the journey from Burma cultural and linguistic confusions complicate the to North America. course of his treatment. 57 Minutes, DVD or VHS $219 Order No. CW-331 21 Minutes, DVD $199 ➤ Chicago International Documentary Festival Order No. CW-496 ➤ Wilbur Award, Religion Communicators Council ➤ Silver Remi Award, Worldfest Houston ABOUT WORLDS APART… 58 Minutes, DVD or VHS $289 “Moves beyond data to put a human face on disparities in Order No. CW-456 health care. The film allows us to create solutions to facilitate cultural competency among health care workers, policy makers and educators.” — Elizabeth A. Williams, National Conference for Community and Justice

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How I Am (Wie Ich Bin) Positively Autistic New By Ingrid Demetz, Caroline Leitner, From the Canadian Broad- Release and David Mazza casting Corporation “I’m like a hermit on an island,” is the way Patrick Is autism a disability, a mental disorder, or Wanker describes his just a difference? Since the early 1990's, an autistic life with autism in rights movement has challenged accepted views of this beautifully filmed autism, and worked documentary. With the to change how the dreams and fears of a world sees people teenager, but wisdom with autism. Meet beyond his years, Pat- people at the fore- rick takes us into his front of this move- emotional world through the words he painstakingly ment, and find out types into his computer. what they see as the positive aspects of living with autism. Children of the Stars New ➤ 2009 ALA Notable Video for Adults By Alexander Haase Release 21 Minutes, DVD $189 and Rob Aspey 49 Minutes, DVD $249 Order No. CW-519 Order No. CW-505 Hundreds of thousands of families in China are affected by autism. In a society with Two Worlds – One Planet little understanding of developmental disabilities, Boy in the World By Gail Levin, Ann Reinking, parents face hostility, discrimination, and extreme By Jessica Jennings and Penny Kadmon, MD and O. Robin Sweet financial hardship. For many three and four-year-olds, learning how to Five-year-old Feng Jia An upbeat look at students attending a private Wei does not speak live in the world begins in the preschool classroom. day school specializing in youth with Asperger Children with developmental disabilities are no and is often violent; he syndrome, high- does not seem even to exception. Ronen, a functioning autism, young boy with Down recognize his parents. and pervasive de- He has been rejected syndrome, attends a velopmental disor- fully inclusive early from the local schools, der. These students and his parents’ careers have been destroyed because childhood education perceive the world center that demon- of his constant need for care and attention. Facing differently and they what appears to be a hopeless future, they say that strates what it really learn differently as means for a child to be they are seriously considering suicide. well. The school offers an academic curriculum that In Beijing, a small school called Stars and Rain included, and the positive effects on everyone involved: is challenging, structured, and nurturing in its approach classmates, parents, teachers, and community. offers a program of behavioral techniques that might to fostering growth, responsibility and independence. enable their son to make enough progress to be ➤ Emmy Winner for Outstanding Photography ➤ Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival accepted in school. 44 Minutes, DVD or VHS $199 62 Minutes, DVD $249 ➤ Breaking Down Barriers Festival, Moscow Order No. CW-488 Black & White, Order No. CW-499 ➤ Sprout Film Festival 49 Minutes, DVD, $249 Lest We Forget: Silent Voices The Boy Inside Order No. CW-507 By Mark R. Lyons; A Partners for By Marianne Kaplan Community Living Production The often harrowing story of the filmmaker’s son, The stories of people with developmental disabilities Adam, a 12-year old with Asperger syndrome, Song of Our Children By Beret E. Strong and John Tweedy – once labeled “mentally defective” – who were sent during a tumultuous year in the life of their family. away to state institu- Adam’s condition Four memorable chil- tions. The film looks makes life in seventh dren, from preschool at the lifelong impact grade a minefield, age to high school, of institutionalization where he finds him- exemplify what “edu- not only on those who self misunderstood, cational inclusion” spent decades in these isolated, and bullied. means, and what it human warehouses, He often says or does takes to make it work. but also on the par- the wrong thing and Their teachers have ents and siblings left behind – and on the pioneering ends up in tears or in fights with other classmates. discovered new ways advocates who put lives and careers in jeopardy to of teaching, their parents have learned new ways ➤ bring about change. Best of 2007, Video Librarian of thinking, and the children have discovered that ➤ Sprout Film Festival ➤ CINE Golden Eagle they all have something to teach one another. 42 Minutes, DVD $249 47 Minutes, DVD or VHS $279 ➤ Cine Golden Eagle Order No. CW-490 Order No. CW-449 58 Minutes, DVD or VHS $199 NOTE: DVD Includes Audio-Described Version Order No. CW-482

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Pushin’ Forward Kiss My Wheels By Izumi Tanaka By Miguel Grunstein and Dale Kruzic Growing up poor and Latino in Chicago, James Lilly Follows a nationally-ranked junior wheelchair bas- dreamed of becoming a professional athlete, but he ketball team through got sidetracked into the world of drugs and gangs. a season of training At the age of fifteen, he and tournament com- was shot in the back petititon. “This is the and paralyzed, but even one place they go that didn’t put an end to where they have his involvement in drug wings,” says their dealing and fights. Four coach – also a wheel- years later he was at- chair user. “Whether it’s a flat tire or a leaking cath- tacked and nearly killed. eter, we can deal with it. It is not embarrassing; it is This time, when he recovered, he began to turn his life a part of life.” And we do see them deal with some More Than Horseplay New around. Now, he helps others to do the same thing. difficult issues, from gender conflicts to injury, illness, Release James works to help inner city school kids stay and thoughts of death. By Veronica Sive and on the right track by sharing his story, and by talking Sarah Barton ➤ YALSA Choice, American Library Association about one thing that helped him move on – wheel- This unusual film explores chair racing. James had won multiple gold medals 56 Minutes, DVD or VHS $249 the intersection of ther- for the US, but the victory he coveted most was the Order No. CW-367 apy and social science, Sadler’s Ultra Challenge in Alaska – the world’s lon- NOTE: DVD Includes Audio-Described Version while offering a joyous gest wheelchair race: 267 miles of dramatic terrain look at the experiences from Fairbanks to Anchorage in six days! This is an of three children with outstanding discussion tool for educators and law Mister Spazzman cerebral palsy as they enforcement personnel working with teens at risk. By Suzanne Girot and Renato Frota grow in self-confidence ➤ Picture This Disability Film Festival and physical capability through “hippotherapy,” an At 40, Robert Golds- increasingly popular form of physiotherapy involving ➤ Silver Remi, WorldFest Houston borough fell out of a horseback riding. tree and broke his Researchers set out to see if they could measure 39 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 neck, becoming a Order No. CW-463 the physical and emotional benefits of riding for chil- quadriplegic. A musi- dren with various levels of cerebral palsy. They recruited cian and activist be- NOTE: DVD Includes Audio-Described Version more than ninety children and their families. More fore the accident, he Than Horseplay focuses on Lachlan, aged eleven; expresses his frustra- Georgia, five; and Angus, who is just four years old. Best tions and passions through the music he writes Phoenix Dance By the end of the study the children are visibly riding seller using a voice activated computer. Poignant, funny, By Karina Epperlein with confidence and sheer joy as they experience the sometimes downright raunchy, his songs weave closeness and warmth provided by the horses – as A month after renowned dancer together the themes of his life today: faith, sex, well as the caring and supportive staff. Homer Avila discovered that the pain in his hip was politics, lovers, friends, family, and caretakers. cancer, his right leg and most of his hip were ampu- ➤ Finalist, National Disability Awards, Australia tated – but he refused to ➤ Western Psychological Association give up dancing. Through 27 Minutes, DVD $199 47 Minutes, DVD or VHS $219 Order No. CW-513 interviews, rehearsals Order No. CW-478 and performances, Phoenix Best Dance follows the evolu- When the Brain tion of a dance created seller for Avila by choreographer Goes Wrong Alonzo King. Both 16 and By Jonathan David & 22-minute versions are included. Roberta Cooks A series of provocative ➤ Academy Awards, Documentary Short List portraits of individuals ➤ Golden Gate Award, San Francisco with a range of brain dys- International Film Festival functions: schizophrenia, manic depression, epi- 16/22 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 Order No. CW-462 lepsy, stroke, head injury, headaches, and addiction. The personal stories give NOTE: DVD Includes Audio-Described Version viewers a vivid sense of what it is like to live with these conditions, while interviews with physicians illuminate what is known about the disorders, and what can be done to help those who have them. ➤ Silver Apple, National Educational Media Network 45 Minutes, DVD or VHS $199 Order No. CW-131 10 Fanlight Productions • (800) 876-1710 • www.fanlight.com disabili t i e s

Changing Identities Wipe Out New By Daniel Labbato, narrated by Meryl Streep By Lionel Goddard, National Release Roughly 1.5 million people each year have their Film Board of Canada lives suddenly and irrevocably changed by brain Brain injury is the leading cause of death and spinal cord injuries. and disability for men under the age of 35. Narrated Because retired artist by an Olympic gold snowboarder, Wipe Out tells the Bill Richards believes story of three young every person has the men living with per- ability to become an art- manent brain damage ist, he doesn’t regard from head injuries the participants in the while pursuing ex- Art Studio he founded treme sports. Chris, a as “patients,” but as people who are forging new, professional snow- creative identities despite their disabilities. boarder, has ongoing memory problems from multiple concussions and Learning to Hear New ➤ Picture This Disability Film Festival traumatic brain injury after crashing while landing a By Lori Kuffner Release ➤ Bronze Award, Worldfest Houston jump for a film shoot. Jon dreamed of following in Though still controversial, especially Chris’s tracks until a skateboard wipe-out almost within the deaf community, over a rela- 57 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 ended his life – and did wipe out most of his memory. Order No. CW-476 tively few years cochlear implant surgery has become Jon now struggles to relearn the most basic life skills. widely accepted, not Chris Tutin’s doctors said he would never walk only for children and When Billy Broke His Head Best again after his cerebellum was crushed in a dirt-bike teens, but for adults as seller accident. Like Chris and Jon, he is sharing his story By Billy Golfus and well. This moving docu- hoping that it will encourage kids to wear helmets, David E. Simpson mentary explores the and avoid reckless risk-taking. Wipe Out offers view- lives of two deaf women Golfus, an award-winning journalist, became ers unprecedented insight into the lives of people who have learned to brain-injured in a motor who are part of what some doctors have called an function in a hearing scooter accident but, invisible epidemic. society, both before and after the life-changing opera- as he says, the video ➤ Golden Sheaf Award, Yorkton Film Festival tion that enables them to recover their hearing. “ain’t exactly your in- 44-year-old Janice lost her hearing in childhood, spirational cripple story.” 50 Minutes, DVD $249 and has spent most of her life compensating – in part In this irreverent, first- Order No. CW-517 by isolating herself from relationships with others. person road movie, he Janice’s story is inter- meets disabled people twined with that of around the country, and witnesses the strength and Edges of Perception 36-year-old Melanie, a anger that have since forged a powerful disability By Eric Kutner married mother of two, rights movement in the United States. Eleven-year-old Jes- who has some hearing ➤ Dupont-Columbia Journalism Award sica thinks she might (30% in one ear,) though be a photographer, a her entire family have ➤ Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance gymnast – or maybe had to develop coping 57 Minutes, DVD or VHS $219 the first girl president. strategies to deal with her disability. Neither woman Order No. CW-136 “We’ll just have to signs or considers herself part of a wider deaf com- wait and see,” she says. munity. Learning to Hear follows Melanie and Janice But seeing is a problem for Jessica, who has Stargardt’s, as they make the decision to have the surgery and Plan F an inherited form of macular degeneration. With the then experience the gradual “speech programming” By Casey Hayward determined support of parents and teachers, Jessica process which enables them to learn to hear again. attends a regular classroom, plays soccer, and is a For Ed Marko, being an occupational therapist ”Recommended. Viewers follow the two women serious runner. Her inspiration, Marla Runyon, also was “Plan A” but, at the age of twenty, he lost his through the surgery, and the miracle moments eyesight to a degenera- has Stargardt’s. when their speech programming process even- tive disease. Undaunted, ➤ Merit Award, Superfest tually commences.” Marko continued for a — Educational Media Reviews Online while to work as a thera- 14 Minutes, DVD or VHS $169 Order No. CW-475 44 Minutes, DVD $229 pist, but Plan B didn’t Order No. CW-508 exactly work out, and C, NOTE: DVD Includes Audio-Described Version D, and E were dead ends as well. By the time he got to Plan F, though, Marko had figured out what was going to be his life’s work: running his own auto repair shop. ABOUT WHEN BILLY BROKE HIS HEAD… ➤ Silver Award, Worldfest Houston “The film’s mission is to show you that our anger has deep ➤ Big Sky Documentary Film Festival roots. Watch it. Get your friends to watch it. This is the film 25 Minutes, DVD $199 Order No. CW-495 the disability community has been waiting for.” NOTE: DVD Includes Audio-Described Version — Barry Corbet, New Mobility Magazine

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Untold Desires Bisexual Virgins: New By Eva Orner and Sarah Stephens Crossing the Line Release From Oscar-winning producer Eva Orner (Taxi to the By Suzanne Babin & Leona Gilbert Dark Side), this power- Tina and Samantha are two straight, small ful documentary gives town young women who want to explore the possi- voice to people with bility they may be bisexual. "Bi-curious" might more disabilities who are accurately describe struggling to be recog- their state of mind. nized as sexual beings, Becoming friends, free to explore their they join forces to sexuality and to lead confront their fears sexually fulfilling lives. Untold Desires confronts and inhibitions, and common stereotypes, and instead offers positive and begin to check out bi- appealing images for people with disabilities, affirm- sexual bars, bisexual New ing that they can be outspoken, intelligent and sexy. workshops and, in frustration, a seminar on bisexual Seventeen Short Films About Breasts Release ➤ International Human Rights Award flirting. This engaging, non-confrontational documentary invites us to look at the fluidity of sexuality in a By Cathryn Robertson ➤ Silver Medal, Prix Leonardo, Italy whole new way. This provocative, often lovely suite of short 57 Minutes, DVD $269 43 Minutes, DVD $229 films explores a range of feelings and concerns women Order No. CW-500 Order No. CW-520 have about their breasts. They offer a wonderful variety of ways to stimulate reflection and discussion. Intelligent, thoughtful One in 2000 PicturePerfect women of all ages talk By Ajae Clearway By Carol Tizzano about the meaning to them of their breasts Each newborn is different, but some differences are We are barraged by media images that unrealisti- throughout the life cycle scarier to parents than cally glamorize and sexualize women and girls. This from sources of embar- others. An estimated lively and engaging film explores the impact these rassment in the early teen one in two thousand messages have on young women’s physical, psycho- years, to pride and self- babies a year are born logical and emotional identity later on; as centers of their erotic and sexual with anatomy that health. Through the lives; and as sources of nourishment and nurturing doesn’t clearly mark voices of a racially for their children. Tragically, their breasts may also be them as either male or and culturally diverse a source of vulnerability. Several of these short visual female – with what is group of women and essays focus on the risk and reality of breast cancer, known as an intersex condition. It’s a situation that girls, PicturePerfect and these discussions are emotionally powerful and challenges our preconceptions about how things examines the inter- visually frank. are “supposed” to be. play of race and eth- The program profiles several people born with nicity, body image, dieting and eating disorders, and ➤ Leo Nominations for Direction, Screenwriting, ambiguous sexual anatomy, but living “ordinary” and the early influence of toys and cartoons. It offers tools Cinematography, Editing, and Music productive lives. At a time when five babies a day in to begin dissecting and questioning the media that 55 Minutes, DVD $249 the United States are having “gender reassignment” influence our behaviors, attitudes, and values. Order No. CW-510 surgery, it argues that there is little evidence such ➤ surgery is beneficial to the child. National Association for Multicultural Education ➤ Cine Golden Eagle Beauty Does Lie ➤ Columbus International Film Festival By Courtney G. Smith ➤ Platinum Remi, Worldfest Houston 40 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 Although they may appear healthy, approximately ➤ Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Order No. CW-470 15 million Americans are living with chronic, poten- tially debilitating autoimmune diseases; about 75 ➤ National Health Information Awards percent are women. Such 26 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 illnesses are among the Order No. CW-459 leading causes of death for women 65 and under, yet they are often over- looked or misdiagnosed ABOUT SEVENTEEEN SHORT FILMS… even by medical profes- “A stark portrayal of women speaking their truth directly sionals. This documentary explores the lives of seven African American women to the camera. The film’s power lies in the candor and courage who are living with lupus, multiple sclerosis, Sjogren’s with which they speak. This is breast cancer undressed.” syndrome, pernicious anemia, and myasthenia gravis. ➤ National Health Information Film Festival — Susan Millar, The Undercurrent, Canada 46 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 Order No. CW-477

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Best A Video Essay on Teenage Grief Grief in America seller By Christopher McClure By Bert Atkinson, narrated by Bereaved kids learn early that if they put a smile Anthony Edwards on their face and say, An honest and comprehensive look at how our cul- “I’m fine,” people will ture deals with loss in all its forms. Interviews with a leave them alone, but number of nationally being left alone with recognized authori- their grief only increases ties on the grieving the devastation caused process examine, by their loss. In this pro- among other things, gram, five young women some common myths meet to share their grief over the loss of their fathers about grieving, the from suicide, accident, a drug overdose, and cancer. importance of social With a bereavement counselor and school guidance supports, the impact of ethnic traditions regarding counselor, they share insights about how the deaths grief, and the social costs of unresolved grieving. Mortal Lessons New have impacted their lives, and what has helped them By David Liban Release ➤ Gold, International CINDY Awards to survive. This moving program follows two ex- ➤ 47 Minutes, DVD $249 Hospice Foundation of America traordinary women who are facing death Order No. CW-503 57 Minutes, DVD or VHS $249 head on. Both are stage-four lung cancer patients, Order No. CW-245 and have been told they have only months to live, yet they have found Four Films on Grief and Bereavement Best From the Calgary Health Region Grief A Family Undertaking seller that preparing for what Support Center By Elizabeth Westrate is to come has enabled them to face each new This four-part series profiles individuals who are A Family Undertaking explores the day with resolution and struggling to deal with the often unexpected death complex psychological, cultural, legal and financial a level of calm. Their open- of a loved one: a child, issues surrounding an important and growing new ness enables their loved ones and others involved a parent, a spouse, or a trend: the home funeral movement. It profiles sev- to communicate their own hopes and fears, and to sibling. Their thoughtful, eral families who have made the decision to forego begin the grieving process. courageous responses the typical mortuary focus on dealing with funeral and instead ➤ Honolulu International Film Festival the immediate impact of prepare their loved ➤ Riverside International Film Festival loss, on paths to heal- ones at home for ing, and on the ways burial or cremation. 57 Minutes, DVD $229 that friends and family can help – but sometimes Families are learning Order No. CW-511 don’t. In sharing the pain of mourning, they explore and experimenting universal experiences that will help others to begin with ways to make healing. Each film approximately 20 minutes. the death of a beloved family member or friend more Pioneers of Hospice: 82 Minutes, DVD $459 personal and meaningful, from preparing the body Changing the Face of Dying Order No. CW-916 at home, to designing and creating caskets which By Terrence Youk, for the Madison reflect the individuals’ personalities and values. Deane Initiative NOTE: Films also sold separately ➤ Silverdocs / American Film Institute In a period of less than Uncoupled: Dealing with forty years, four vision- the Death of a Spouse ➤ Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival ary healthcare profes- 24 Minutes, DVD $199 56 Minutes, DVD or VHS $249 sionals dramatically Order No. CW-492 Order No. CW-374 transformed the land- scape of end-of-life care Out of Order: Dealing with and inspired a movement the Death of a Child felt around the world. Dame Cicely Saunders founded 23 Minutes, DVD or VHS $199 the modern hospice movement in England. Florence Order No. CW-448 Wald opened the first hospice in the United States, while Balfour Mount established the first palliative A Family Disrupted: Dealing care program in Canada. Founder of the Death with with the Death of a Sibling Dignity movement, the late Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was 22 Minutes, DVD $199 one of the best-loved and respected authorities on Order No. CW-493 dying, death and grief. Dearly Loved: Dealing with 49 Minutes, DVD or VHS $249 the Death of a Parent Order No. CW-415 13 Minutes, DVD or VHS $159 Order No. CW-447

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Black Dawn: The Next Pandemic Code Gray: Ethical Best From the Canadian Broadcasting Dilemmas in Nursing seller Corporation By Ben Achtenberg & Joan For the moment, we Sawyer in collaboration seem to have escaped with Christine Mitchell, RN the threat of a global Produced & directed by Joan Sawyer. bird flu pandemic, but Photographed & edited by Ben Achtenberg what about next time? This gripping docudra- This multi-award-winning program documents ma imagines what it four actual situations where nurses confront difficult will be like if what we ethical decisions, feared actually happens: human-to-human trans- as they balance the mission of the virus, leading to the worldwide spread often contradictory of avian influenza. Many experts predict that such views of patients, a pandemic will happen, and that it will be more family members, and Multiple lethal than all of the world’s previous plagues. Black other staff about By Lucinda Broadbent and Alison Peebles what is best for their Dawn is a starkly realistic picture of life during the For six years, actor and director Alison Peebles has next pandemic. patients. It offers no easy answers, but is designed to trigger discussion been keeping a secret: she ➤ Western Psychological Association among nurses, physicians, other health workers and has multiple sclerosis, and consumers about the realities of nursing in a techno- it is beginning to affect her 52 Minutes, DVD or VHS, $199 speech, mobility, and eye- Order No. CW-481 logically complex world. sight. Now, in the midst of ➤ ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! working on an important television series, Alison finds Ethics Thru Drama ➤ First Prize, San Francisco International that she can no longer hide By Helen Emmott, RN, and Julie Russell, RN her symptoms, and she’s Two experienced registered nurses have created a ➤ First Prize, American Journal © AMPAS® afraid that the revelation may powerful series of short, one-character dramas which of Nursing destroy her career. She’ll also have to kiss goodbye offer nurses, physicians, social workers and other 26 Minutes, DVD or VHS $219 to her sexy, high-heeled shoes. members of the health- Order No. CW-004 ➤ Picture This Disability Film Festival care team invaluable case material for use ➤ Superfest International Disability in thinking about end- Bevel Up: Drugs, Users Film Festival of-life issues. Tricia, a & Outreach Nursing 29 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 breast cancer patient By Nettie Wild Order No. CW-461 and mother of three, confronts difficult moral How can nurses deliver effective and compassionate and spiritual issues as she comes to grips with the healthcare to drug users? This compelling documentary follows a team Ruth fact that her illness is terminal. Homeless, poor, By Michael Frantzis and HIV positive, Sheila lacks all the social supports, of “street nurses” as including health insurance, that might help her they reach out to An articulate but apparently anxious woman in her confront a terminal illness with dignity. Claire is a prevent HIV/AIDS thirties is describing her medical history. She seems registered nurse. When the physician gave her the and other sexually intelligent, perceptive, engaging – though perhaps diagnosis of ovarian cancer, she understood the transmitted diseases a bit manic. Ruth has words, “but I couldn’t hear anything he was saying.” by taking their ser- endured the disabling A Take Ten, Inc., production by Linda Haskins. vices directly to the symptoms of Parkinson’s young people, sex workers, and homeless men and disease for more than ➤ Chris Award, Columbus International women living in the alleys, parks, shelters, and skid twelve years. That she is Film/Video Festival row hotels of the inner city. Focusing on the principles able to think and speak ➤ International Film & Video Festival of health promotion and harm reduction, these coherently, she tells us, dedicated registered nurses provide health care in is due to a procedure 54 Minutes, DVD (3 short films) $299 traditional clinic settings or wherever their patients called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in which elec- Order No. CW-802 can be found. The video is the core of an innova- trodes are implanted deep in the brain. Using a hand- Individual films also available tive training package. From the National Film Board held device, she can switch off many of the symptoms on VHS only, $129 each of Canada. that have kept her a virtual prisoner in her own body. ➤ Hot Docs International Film Festival ➤ Gold Hugo Award, Intercom ➤ Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival ➤ International Sheffield DocFest ➤ American Academy of Nursing ➤ Vision du Reel, Switzerland 45 Minutes, DVD $299 31 Minutes, DVD or VHS $229 Order No. CW-487 Order No. CW-469

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Soldier’s Heart NOW Stuffed Secret Fear A By Roberta Seligman VAILABLE By Arwen Curry & Cerissa Tanner By Eva Orner and Sarah Barton Have we really learned anything from All of us attach emotional significance to the things Everyone experiences history? What we now call PTSD has had we’ve bought, been given, or otherwise acquired, but anxiety at some stage in other names: Civil War soldiers suffered from 'soldier's an estimated two- their lives, but for an es- heart.' In the First World percent of the popu- timated ten percent of War, it was 'shell shock.' lation are compul- the population, anxiety The filmmaker's father sive hoarders. While will become debilitating came back from World it’s been widely ac- to the point of illness. War II with 'combat fa- cepted that hoarding From Oscar-winning pro- tigue.' The trauma of his is a disorder on the ducer Eva Orner (Taxi to the Dark Side), this multi-faceted wartime experiences, Obsessive-Compul- documentary explores the full spectrum of anxiety- little understood at the sive spectrum, this film notes that more recent stud- related disorders, from panic attacks and phobias to time, affected his entire family. Originally released in ies, including brain scans, suggest that it may be a post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, compul- 1988, this devastating documentary is even more separate, neurologically distinct condition. Stuffed sive hoarding, cutting or other self-injury, compulsive relevant today. dispels the stereotype that all hoarders are isolated hair pulling, and obsessive compulsive disorder. elderly derelicts. The “packrats” featured in this film ➤ American Film & Video Festival ➤ Creative Excellence, U.S. International are young to middle-aged, and seem otherwise rela- Film & Video Festival 54 Minutes, DVD $149 tively well-adjusted. Order No. CW-518 52 Minutes, DVD $229 ➤ Mill Valley Film Festival Order No. CY-501 ➤ National Association of Professional Hidden Wounds Organizers Best By Iris Adler Four Lives: A Portrait of 20 Minutes, DVD or VHS $219 seller It’s estimated that one Order No. CW-489 Manic Depression in five of the troops re- By Jonathan David turning from the current Four patients and their families and psychiatrists war in Iraq will suffer Packrat share their perspectives on living with manic depres- some form of post-trau- By Kris Britt Montag sion, an illness which matic stress disorder Hoarding behavior affects nearly three mil- (PTSD). Their symptoms can seem amusing lion Americans. When may include intrusive unless you have to depressed, these patients memories and dreams, flashbacks, hypervigilance, live with it every day. have exaggerated feel- impaired memory, diminished affect, and feelings of This documentary ings of hopelessness, estrangement from others. Hidden Wounds explores takes us inside two sadness and anxiety. this painful reality through the stories of three veter- families whose lives When manic, they expe- ans and their struggles to overcome the trauma of have been shaped rience extreme feelings of ambition and self-confidence. their experiences. by parents who are “packrats,” The filmmaker’s fa- If the high escalates they may become dangerously ➤ United Nations Association Film Festival ther chained a row of shopping carts to the front-yard extravagant, incessantly talking and socially uninhib- fence of the family’s home. He piled stacks of old ited. If untreated, one in six may commit suicide. ➤ Director’s Citation, Black Maria newspapers in the kitchen until it became impossible ➤ Silver Apple, National Educational 57 Minutes, DVD or VHS $259 to use the sink; when his wife threw them away, he Film Festival Order No. CW-446 became furious. Cinematographer Jessica Jennings’ farmer father has an entire barn filled to the ceiling ➤ Cum Laude, Midikinale Parma with items he thinks might be useful “someday.” 56 Minutes, DVD or VHS $199 Good Days, Bad Days ➤ Order No. CW-029 By Anna Ledbetter, Gary Ledbetter, Northampton Independent Film Festival and Krista Ledbetter ➤ Association for Gerontology in Higher This intimate documentary profiles individuals who Education love and support someone who is struggling with 28 & 52 Minute versions included mental illness, examin- DVD or VHS $219, Order No. CW-410 ing the profound impact that these disorders can have on other family members. The film not ABOUT HIDDEN WOUNDS... only captures the heroic "I'm grateful to the filmmakers for having the courage to produce tolerance and accep- tance of these family such an important documentary. It is something every man or members, but outlines techniques that may help people who are trying their best to assist loved ones in woman returning home from war should be required to see." coping with severe psychiatric conditions. — The Honorable John F. Kerry, United States Senate 22 Minutes, DVD $199 Order No. CW-494 www.fanlight.com • (800) 876-1710 • Fanlight Productions 15 FANLIGHT.COM Fanlight Productions c/o Icarus Films 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201

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