Re: [Videolib] women's repro rights - films
Hi all, Suggestions still welcome. EMRO is the search tool, isn’t it? Thanks, lorraine From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Wochna, Lorraine Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 1:50 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] women's repro rights - films Hi all, Looking for some good docs/films on women’s reproductive rights, united states, within past 10 years. Suggestions? Is there any way to search across all the vendors (mostly the vendors at NMM), at the same time? Or I’m missing something. Thanks, as always for your wisdom. Best, lorraine VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] women's repro rights - films
Hi Lorraine, While it isn't a ro*co ed title, I would highly recommend AFTER TILLER (about late-term abortion). Premiered at Sundance in 2013 and it is phenomenal. Trailer and info here: http://aftertillermovie.com/ Best, Kristin kristin cooney managing director | ro*co films educational 80 liberty ship way, suite 8 | sausalito, ca 94965 Tel. 415.332.6471 x204 | Fax 415.332.6798 kris...@rocofilms.com www.rocoeducational.com From: Wochna, Lorraine woc...@ohio.edu Reply-To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 13:54:07 -0400 To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] women's repro rights - films Hi all, Suggestions still welcome. EMRO is the search tool, isn¹t it? Thanks, lorraine From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Wochna, Lorraine Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 1:50 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] women's repro rights - films Hi all, Looking for some good docs/films on women¹s reproductive rights, united states, within past 10 years. Suggestions? Is there any way to search across all the vendors (mostly the vendors at NMM), at the same time? Or I¹m missing something. Thanks, as always for your wisdom. Best, lorraine VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] women's repro rights - films
Hi Lorraine, Women Make Movies has a few films that may be of interest: Middle of Everywhere The Abortion Debate from America's Heartlandhttp://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c773.shtml South Dakota is America’s heartland—waving cornfields, hard-working farmers, family values and a population of 750,000, the majority of whom identify as conservative and anti-abortion. Native daughter Rebecca Lee returns home in 2006 on the brink of a historic state vote: House Bill 1215 could make South Dakota the first state to outlaw most abortions since Roe vs. Wade passed almost 30 years earlier. In The Middle of Everywhere, Lee discovers the debate to be complex, with both sides claiming compassion for women and the same desire to stop the need for abortion. A Girl Like Herhttp://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c846.shtml From 1945-73, 1.5 million unmarried young American women, facing enormous social pressures, surrendered babies to adoption. Lacking sex education and easy access to birth control, they were forced into hiding while pregnant and then into “abandoning” their infants. In her latest film, Ann Fessler, Professor of Photography at Rhode Island School of Design, reprises the subject of her award-winning The Girls Who Went Away (National Book Critics Circle; Ballard Book Prize), which Ms. readers named an all-time best feminist book. Drawing on interviews with 100 women, Fessler lets them have their say and brings hidden history to light. We hear only their voices, which detail wrenching experiences against images from vintage newsreel and educational films reinforcing stereotypes of women’s roles following WWII. This gripping documentary will help today’s students grasp what life was like before the sexual and feminist revolutions had fully dawned. Although older, I also highly recommend this one: Jane: An Abortion Servicehttp://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c410.shtml This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of Jane, the Chicago-based women's health group who performed nearly 12,000 safe illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973 with no formal medical training. As Jane members describe finding feminism and clients describe finding Jane, archival footage and recreations mingle to depict how the repression of the early sixties and social movements of the late sixties influenced this unique group. Both vital knowledge and meditation on the process of empowerment, Jane: An Abortion Service showcases the importance of preserving women's knowledge in the face of revisionist history. Best, Amy Aquilino Women Make Movies Distribution and Sales Coordinator 115 West 29th St., Suite 1200 New York, NY 10001 (p)212-925-0606 ext. 305 (f)212-925-2052 [cid:3435308539_30121745] The 2014 WMM New Releases Catalog is now available onlinehttp://www.wmm.com/2014catalog/! This year’s catalog includes Academy Award nominated KINGS POINThttp://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c868.shtml and One World Media Award winner LIGHT FLY, FLY HIGHhttp://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c869.shtml. To view other award-winning WMM new releaseshttp://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/new_releases.shtml, and to learn more about our internationally recognized Production Assistance Program visit us at www.wmm.com. To receive regular updates from WMM, sign up for our E-Newsletterhttp://bit.ly/15CqbxH. Support WMM by shopping at Amazon Smilesmile.amazon.com. [FacebookButton]http://www.facebook.com/womenmakemovies[youtubebutton]http://www.youtube.com/user/WMMNYC[TwitterButton]http://www.twitter.com/womenmakemovies[pinterest-button.png]http://www.pinterest.com/womenmakemovies/[amazon2.jpg]https://smile.amazon.com/ From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Wochna, Lorraine Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 1:50 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] women's repro rights - films Hi all, Looking for some good docs/films on women’s reproductive rights, united states, within past 10 years. Suggestions? Is there any way to search across all the vendors (mostly the vendors at NMM), at the same time? Or I’m missing something. Thanks, as always for your wisdom. Best, lorraine VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] women's repro rights - films
Hi Lorraine videolibbers! We have a few films that might fit the bill: CASTING THE FIRST http://www.icarusfilms.com/cat97/a-e/casting_.html STONE focuses on six women who regularly confront each other from opposite sides of a police barricade. Three believe that abortion is an inalienable right. Three consider it murder. Shelley Miller, director of the Women's Suburban Clinic in Paoli, Pennsylvania, endures constant harassment from anti-abortion groups camped outside her doors. Joan Scalia, a Catholic mother of six, defies her husband to join Operation Rescue's efforts. Sharon Owens, clinic counselor and adoptive mother of three, is closer to the middle. She cannot decide when human life begins, but feels required - as a Christian - to serve others who must. As it chronicles the daily lives of these and the other women, the camera records anti-abortion blockades, counseling sessions, a visit with a young mother the protesters persuaded to have her baby, and Planned Parenthood's emergency board meetings after the Supreme Court's historic Webster v. Missouri decision. Rare in giving equal voice to both sides, Casting the First http://www.icarusfilms.com/cat97/a-e/casting_.html Stone is among the most insightful documents of the abortion struggle ever made. If you can use only one film or tape about abortion, this is the one to choose. - Professor Virginia Yans McGlaughlin, Rutgers University http://www.icarusfilms.com/new99/drspence.html DEAR DR SPENCER From the early 1920s until his death in 1969, Dr. Robert Douglas Spencer practiced medicine in a small town in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. Dr. Spencer treated colds, set fractures, and provided basic medical care. But he was unique. He performed illegal abortions. Dr. Spencer performed his first abortion, his patient a poor coal miner's wife, in 1923. Soon after, the doctor's reputation spread. He began receiving letters from women across the country, asking, sometimes pleading, for his help. Ashland, Pennsylvania, a town of church-goers, grateful to him for his dedication to the mining community, quietly allowed the doctor to practice. The citizens seemed to ignore the steady stream of young women going to and from his office, the out of state license plates, the ever-increasing number of one-night guests at the town's hotel. They even protected him each time the state police tried to shut his practice down. Dr. Spencer was arrested three times but never convicted. Historians estimated that he performed more than 40,000 safe abortions during the course of his career. Emmy Nomination, National Academy of Television Arts Sciences Powerfully evokes what life without legal abortion would be like.-Liz Mermin, IndieWIRE Click here for more titles from Women http://www.icarusfilms.com/subjects/wmhealth.html 's Health and Bioethics http://www.icarusfilms.com/subjects/bioethic.html . Thanks, Nina Riddel Sales Associate Icarus Films 718-488-8900 n...@icarusfilms.com VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
