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17 Reviews

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A Year in Champagne

2014, DVD, color, 122 min.
Distributed by First Run Features, 630 Ninth Avenue, Suite 1213, New York, NY 10036; 212-243-0600
Produced by Todd Ruppert and David Kennard

Recommended

Subjects: Business, Entrepreneurship, France, Wine Industry, World History
Date Entered:12/01/15


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Art Bastard

2016, DVD , color, 83 min.
Distributed by Passion River Films, 154 Mt. Bethel Rd., Warren, NJ 07059; 732-321-0711
Produced by Chris T. Concannon

Highly Recommended

Subjects: Activism, Art, Art History, Biography, Drawing, Education, Illustration, Journalism, Museum, New York City, Painting, Politics, Political Posters, Popular Culture, Realism, Satire, Social Justice, Visual Art
Date Entered:02/26/18


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Bird in the Room

2016, DVD , color, 67 min.
Distributed by Docs for Education, 10a Holland St., Afulla, Israel 18371; fax: 972-3-5291726
Produced by Directed by Ari Davidovich

Highly Recommended

Subjects: Acting, Art, Biography, Children’s Literature, Death, Depression, Family Relations, Fame, Folk Music, Hebrew Literature, Marriage, Mental Health, Music, Parenting, Poetry, Popular Culture, Songwriting, Storytelling, Suicide, Tel Aviv, Theater,
Date Entered:02/15/17


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Burden of Peace

2015, DVD, color, 77 mimn.
Distributed by Alexander Street Press, 350 7th Ave/Ste 1100, New York, NY 10001
Produced by Bart Voorsluis, Annemiek Munneke, and Framewerk

Recommended with reservations

Subjects: Activism, Central America, Corruption, Crime and Prosecution, Courts, Crimes Against Humanity, Criminality, Dictatorship, Genocide, Government, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Latin America, Law, Mayans, Women’s Rights
Date Entered:03/15/17


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Camille Claudel 1915

2013, DVD , color, 25 min.
Distributed by Kino Lorber Edu, 333 West 39 St, Suite 503, New York, NY 10018; 212-629-6880
Produced by Rachid Boucharab, Jean Brehat, Remi Burah, Veronique Cayla, and Muriel Merlin

Recommended

Subjects: Art, Art History, Biography, Family Relations, France, Artists, Mental Health, Women’s Health
Date Entered:08/06/14


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Hava Nagila: The Movie

2012, , color, 75 min.
Distributed by Katahdin Films, 1516 Fifth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710; 510.666.0866
Produced by Roberta Grossman, Sophie Sartain, and Marta Kauffman

Highly Recommended

Subjects: Social Activism, African-American Culture, Art, Civil Rights, Dance, European History, Folklore, Judaism History, Jewish Studies, Music, Protest Movements, Race Relations, Religion, Social Movements
Date Entered:07/23/13


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Heart of Sky Heart of Earth

2012, DVD, color, 98 min.
Distributed by Bullfrog Films, PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 800-543-FROG (3764)
Produced by Eric Black and Frauke Sandig Umbrella Films in co-production with ZDF/3sat

Recommended with reservations

Subjects: Activism, Agriculture, Animals, Anthropology, Ecology, Environmentalism, Food, Folklore, History, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Sociology
Date Entered:02/02/15


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Kale and Kale

2007, DVD , color, 51 min.
Distributed by Cinema Guild, 115 West 30th Street, Suite 800, New York, NY 10001; 212-685-6242
Produced by Stephanie Spray

Not Recommended

Subjects: Anthropology, Asia, Folklore, Hinduism, Music, Nepal, Culture
Date Entered:10/19/15


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Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger

2013, DVD , color, 72 min.
Distributed by Sam Feder
Produced by Sam Feder and Karin Winslow

Highly Recommended

Subjects: Acting, Activism, Gender Identity, Homosexuality, Transgenderism, Sexual Behavior
Date Entered:03/10/16


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Salam Neighbor

2015, DVD , color, 75 min.
Distributed by Tugg, Inc., 855-321-8844
Produced by Salam Darwaza, Mohab Khattab, Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci and Living on One and 1001 Media

Highly Recommended

Subjects: Activism, Civil Rights, Civil War, Crimes Against Humanity, Entrepreneurship, Family, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Middle East, Nonprofit Organizations, Refugee Camps, United Nations, War Crimes, World History
Date Entered:07/26/16


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Saving Jamaica Bay

2016, DVD , color, 76 min.
Distributed by Passion River Films, 154 Mt. Bethel Rd., Warren, NJ 07059; 732-321-0711
Produced by Daniel Hendrick

Highly Recommended

Subjects: Activism, Animal Welfare, Biodiversity, Bird Watching, Birds, Botany, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environmentalism, Fish, Gateway National Recreation Area, Natural Disasters, Salt Marshes, Urban Wildlife Management, Wetlands
Date Entered:02/12/18


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Songhua

2007, DVD, color, 28 min.
Distributed by Cinema Guild, 115 West 30th Street, Suite 800, New York, NY 10001; 212-685-6242
Produced by Doc Alliance Films

Not Recommended

Subjects: Anthropology, Asia, Geography
Date Entered:01/28/16


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Suitcase of Love and Shame

2013, DVD , color, 70 min.
Distributed by Cinema Guild, 115 West 30th Street, Suite 800, New York, NY 10001; 212-685-6242
Produced by Jane Gillooly

Recommended

Subjects: Adultery, Sex
Date Entered:02/02/15


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The Last Flight of Petr Ginz

2013, DVD , color, 66 min.
Distributed by First Run Features, 630 Ninth Avenue, Suite 1213, New York, NY 10036; 212-243-0600
Produced by Stephen H. Cypen and Peter Gilbert

Highly Recommended

Subjects: Adolescence; Art; Children’s Literature; Civil Rights, Crimes Against Humanity, Discrimination, European History, History, Human Rights, Jewish Holocaust, War Crimes, World War II, World History
Date Entered:02/14/14


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The Other Man: F.W. de Klerk and the End of Apartheid

2014, DVD, color, 75 min.
Distributed by First Run Features, 630 Ninth Avenue, Suite 1213, New York, NY 10036; 212-243-0600
Produced by Nicolas Rossier, Baraka Productions and Naashon Zalk Media

Highly Recommended

Subjects: Apartheid, Civil Rights, Crimes Against Humanity, Discrimination, Government, History, Human Rights, Politics, Protest Movements, Racism, South Africa, World History, Violence, War Crimes
Date Entered:08/13/15


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The White Meadows

2012, DVD , color, 93 min.
Distributed by Global Film Initiative, 145 Ninth St., #105, San Francisco, CA 94103
Produced by Mohammad Rasoulof

Recommended with reservations

Subjects: Human Rights, Iran, Middle East Studies, Sociology
Date Entered:08/01/13


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Tracing Roots

2014, DVD, color, 35 min.
Distributed by New Day Films, 190 Route 17M, P.O. Box 1084, Harriman, NY 10926; 888-367-9154 or 845-774-7051
Produced by Ellen Frankenstein with Delores Churchill

Highly Recommended

Subjects: Archeology, Anthropology, Art, Art History, Basket Weaving, Botany, Crafts, Diversity, Documentaries, Education, Folklore, Native Americans, Native Peoples, Needlework
Date Entered:05/04/15