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Healthcare, Mental Health,Disabilities FANLIGHT.COM Fanlight Productions Catalog Supplement 2010 14 New Releases! Photo from Wipe Out Streaming Rights Copyright 2008, National Film Board of Canada Available: Email for Details Healthcare, Mental Health,Disabilities, Aging, Ethics, and Diversity www.fanlight.com • (800) 876-1710 • Fanlight Productions 1 Welcome to the 2010 Supplement to C ONTENT 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. F Over 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. For questions about Fanlight or our video programs, STREAMING RIGHTS are available for most contact our business office: films. Contact us for details.RENTALS are $60–100 for one day, or $120 per week. Call for availability. FANLIGHT PRODUCTIONS Programs are guaranteed to arrive the business c/o Icarus Films day before your show date. They must be shipped 32 Court Street, 21st Floor back the business day after your show date. On Brooklyn, NY 11201 request, one day’s rental fee is deductible from Phone: (800) 876-1710 the purchase price if the film is ordered within Outside U.S.: (718) 488-8900 90 days. PREVIEWS are for purchase consideration Fax: (718) 488-8642 by qualified buyers only, and will be scheduled, E-mail: [email protected] when available, on a first-come, first-served basis. Website: www.fanlight.com DISCOUNTS are available on most multiple film STREAMING RIGHTS AVAILABLE ON MOST FILMS orders. Call or email for details. CONTACT US FOR DETAILS For 28 years, Fanlight Productions has been a leading distributor of film and video works on the social issues Streaming of our time, with a special focus on healthcare, mental Rights Available health, professional ethics, aging and gerontology, Contact us for Details disabilities, diversity, and gender and family issues. 2 Fanlight Productions • (800) 876-1710 • www.fanlight.com AGI N G AGING 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.
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