http://www.newdaydigital.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:11:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.newdaydigital.com/images/M_images/ndd_rss.png http://www.newdaydigital.com http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage_free&product_id=7928&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Thursday, September 2

Scout's Honor traces the conflict between the anti-gay policies of the Boy Scouts of America and the broad-based movement by many of its members to overturn them. The story is told predominantly through the experiences of a 13-year old boy and a 70-year-old man -- both heterosexual, both dedicated to the Scouts, and both determined to change the course of Scouting history. Their challenge is being waged in their hometown of Petaluma, California -- a place more familiar with agriculture than activism. Yet it is here where they began an international petition drive and media campaign to overturn the BSA's anti-gay policy. To be physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight, this is the Boy Scout Oath. Since 1910, millions of boys have joined. But today, if you are openly gay, you can't. Witness how Steven Cozza, a 13-year-old Boy Scout, launches a grassroots campaign to overturn the ban on gays. Scouting for All is the movement built by Cozza with the help of a long-time Scout leader, community members, and his own family.Also included are the stories of ousted gay Eagle Scouts Tim Curran and James Dale, whose legal cases culminated at the United States Supreme Court where a private organization's right to determine its membership was heard against a state's right to protect the civil rights of gay and lesbian citizens.Moving from Petaluma, California to the Supreme Court, the film chronicles a modern interpretation of the Scouting ideals of courage, citizenship, and honor.

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]]> Tom Shepard LGBT Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=466&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8060&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Friday, September 3

A Day's Work, A Day's Pay follows three welfare recipients in New York City from 1997 to 2000 as they participate in the largest welfare-to-work program in the nation. When forced to work at city jobs for well below the prevailing wage and deprived of the chance to go to school, these individuals decide to fight back, demanding programs that will actually help them move off of welfare and into jobs. A Day's Work, A Day's Pay traces the personal and political evolution of its three main characters. Juan Galan successfully organizes WEP workers while battling the demons of his own poverty-stricken childhood. Jackie Marte, who drops out of school in order to raise her two children, tries desperately to stay out of workfare, and in the nick of time succeeds in finding a job-training program that allows her to leave welfare for good. Jose Nicolau overcomes his timidity as he learns to organize against workfare, inspiring his peers with impassioned speeches, and testifying to the City Council about sexual harassment of WEP workers. As the film tracks the three-year effort to pass two critical pieces of legislation, viewers will come to understand the real-life impact that social policy has on human beings. They will also comprehend the effort required for poor and working people to transform themselves from victims of the System to fully empowered citizens who take control of their own lives.

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]]> Jonathan Skurnik Sociology, Political Science & Anthropology http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=466&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8060&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Saturday, September 4

A Day's Work, A Day's Pay follows three welfare recipients in New York City from 1997 to 2000 as they participate in the largest welfare-to-work program in the nation. When forced to work at city jobs for well below the prevailing wage and deprived of the chance to go to school, these individuals decide to fight back, demanding programs that will actually help them move off of welfare and into jobs. A Day's Work, A Day's Pay traces the personal and political evolution of its three main characters. Juan Galan successfully organizes WEP workers while battling the demons of his own poverty-stricken childhood. Jackie Marte, who drops out of school in order to raise her two children, tries desperately to stay out of workfare, and in the nick of time succeeds in finding a job-training program that allows her to leave welfare for good. Jose Nicolau overcomes his timidity as he learns to organize against workfare, inspiring his peers with impassioned speeches, and testifying to the City Council about sexual harassment of WEP workers. As the film tracks the three-year effort to pass two critical pieces of legislation, viewers will come to understand the real-life impact that social policy has on human beings. They will also comprehend the effort required for poor and working people to transform themselves from victims of the System to fully empowered citizens who take control of their own lives.

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]]> Jonathan Skurnik Sociology, Political Science & Anthropology http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=455&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8182&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Sunday, September 5

Seoul Train is a gripping documentary expose into the life-and-death struggle faced by North Korean refugees as they flee their homeland through China. Seoul Train combines verite and hidden camera footage with personal stories and interviews to reveal the harrowing journey attempted by some 250,000 North Koreans, whose refugee status is not recognized by China. Their clandestine escape covers hundreds of miles of Chinese territory via an underground railroad of safe houses and hidden routes. If caught, the refugees - and the activists that help them - face imprisonment and possibly execution if captured and returned to North Korea. With rare and candid interviews with U.N., U.S., South Korean and Chinese officials, Seoul Train skillfully explores the geopolitical forces behind this crisis - with a human face.

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]]> Lisa Sleeth and Jim Butterworth Human Rights & Global Concerns http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=461&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7831&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Monday, September 6

The Collectors' Edition has nine additional short films on Barbie -- including Black Barbie, about African-American dolls, and The Handlers at Home, featuring more of the Barbie creator's views on women's issues. The Barbie doll is not just the world's most popular toy, she's a Rorschach test, revealing attitudes about sexuality, body image, gender roles and creativity. Journeying from Barbie conventions to anti-Barbie demonstrations, from girls' play dates to Barbie web pages, Barbie Nation plumbs the cult of the Barbie doll, telling the Barbie stories of men, women and children. At the center of Barbie Nation is the story of Barbie creator and Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler. Handler's ironic rise and fall brings Barbie Nation to a climax that is about the creation of femininity and the marketing -- and subversion -- of femininity's icon.

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]]> Susan Stern Media, Art & Culture http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=466&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8154&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Monday, September 6

Ask Not is a multi-award winning provocative portrait exploring the effects of the US military's don't ask, don't tell policy. Broadcast nationally on the PBS series, Independent Lens, and honored with a special bi-partisan Capitol Hill screening for Congressmembers, Ask Not provokes thoughtful dialogue about the merits of banning those who are honest about their identities from serving their country.Current and veteran gay soldiers reveal how don't ask, don't tell affects them during their tours of duty as they struggle to maintain a double life, uncertain of whom they can trust. The film also explores how gay veterans and youth organizers are turning to forms of personal activism to overturn the policy. From a national speaking tour of conservative universities to protests at military recruitment offices, these public events question how the United States military can claim to represent democracy and freedom while denying one segment of the population the right to serve. Interspersed with these principal storylines, the film reveals rare archival footage and key historical interviews with policy experts to explain the history and implementation of don't ask, don't tell.

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]]> Johnny Symons Sociology, Political Science & Anthropology http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=452&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7835&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Tuesday, September 7

Is it ever rational to choose death? On Independence Day at Stern Ranch, 77-year-old solar energy pioneer Bob Stern finds out he's seriously ill - possibly dying. Meanwhile, an elderly in-law is dying on artificial life support. Bob decides to cheat that fate and take his own life. His family tries to stop him. Bob sets up a video camera. Daughter Susan Stern (Barbie Nation) explores rational suicide, the right-to-die and the difficult end-of-life choices faced by an aging population.

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]]> Susan Stern Aging & Gerontology http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=466&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8154&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Wednesday, September 8

Ask Not is a multi-award winning provocative portrait exploring the effects of the US military's don't ask, don't tell policy. Broadcast nationally on the PBS series, Independent Lens, and honored with a special bi-partisan Capitol Hill screening for Congressmembers, Ask Not provokes thoughtful dialogue about the merits of banning those who are honest about their identities from serving their country.Current and veteran gay soldiers reveal how don't ask, don't tell affects them during their tours of duty as they struggle to maintain a double life, uncertain of whom they can trust. The film also explores how gay veterans and youth organizers are turning to forms of personal activism to overturn the policy. From a national speaking tour of conservative universities to protests at military recruitment offices, these public events question how the United States military can claim to represent democracy and freedom while denying one segment of the population the right to serve. Interspersed with these principal storylines, the film reveals rare archival footage and key historical interviews with policy experts to explain the history and implementation of don't ask, don't tell.

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]]> Johnny Symons Sociology, Political Science & Anthropology http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=460&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8158&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Thursday, September 9

This groundbreaking film explores the power of youth and beauty in the gay community. A diverse group of gay men, ages 19 to 77, negotiate their fears of becoming old, undesirable and alone. The film critically examines the pressure to look young and attractive, the lack of positive older role models and the ways in which AIDS intensifies the fear and process of aging. Beauty Before Age offers a male perspective on a historically female issue and illuminates the larger societal obsession with physical appearance.

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]]> Johnny Symons LGBT Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=453&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8150&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Friday, September 10

Daddy Papa is an Emmy-nominated one-hour documentary that opens a candid window on the personal, cultural and political implications of gay fatherhood. From surrogacy, foster care and interracial adoption, to the complexities of gay divorce and legal battle around gay parenting this Sundance Film Festival favorite presents a revealing look at some of the gay dads who are breaking new ground in the ever-changing landscape of the American family. Daddy Papa utilizes an accessible, first-person narrative to create an intimate portrayal of gay dads, following the filmmaker and his partner on the their rocky, and sometimes amusing, journey to parenthood.Along the way, we meet other gay dads: a single father confronting the isolation of raising at-risk kids in a gay, and largely childless, neighborhood; a healthcare worker battling Florida state law to adopt the child who for five years has called him Dad ; and a couple and their nine-year-old daughter, whose biggest problem is not that her parents are gay, but divorced. Daddy Papa takes an unflinching look at some of the complex issues surrounding gay fatherhood, including the effect of sexual orientation on children, challenge of white gay men raising African-American kids, changing relationship of gay fathers to the gay community and real impact on children of being raised without a mother. In the process, it reveals a new picture of what it means to be a family. For tips on facilitating a community forum, information on adoption and foster care, an overview of legal issues, and more, download our 8-page Discussion Guide from the Study Resources section.

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]]> Johnny Symons Children, Youth, & Families http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=453&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8150&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Saturday, September 11

Daddy Papa is an Emmy-nominated one-hour documentary that opens a candid window on the personal, cultural and political implications of gay fatherhood. From surrogacy, foster care and interracial adoption, to the complexities of gay divorce and legal battle around gay parenting this Sundance Film Festival favorite presents a revealing look at some of the gay dads who are breaking new ground in the ever-changing landscape of the American family. Daddy Papa utilizes an accessible, first-person narrative to create an intimate portrayal of gay dads, following the filmmaker and his partner on the their rocky, and sometimes amusing, journey to parenthood.Along the way, we meet other gay dads: a single father confronting the isolation of raising at-risk kids in a gay, and largely childless, neighborhood; a healthcare worker battling Florida state law to adopt the child who for five years has called him Dad ; and a couple and their nine-year-old daughter, whose biggest problem is not that her parents are gay, but divorced. Daddy Papa takes an unflinching look at some of the complex issues surrounding gay fatherhood, including the effect of sexual orientation on children, challenge of white gay men raising African-American kids, changing relationship of gay fathers to the gay community and real impact on children of being raised without a mother. In the process, it reveals a new picture of what it means to be a family. For tips on facilitating a community forum, information on adoption and foster care, an overview of legal issues, and more, download our 8-page Discussion Guide from the Study Resources section.

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]]> Johnny Symons Children, Youth, & Families http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=465&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8063&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Sunday, September 12

Even before they took place, the 2005 Kansas school board hearings on evolution were recognized as a pivotal battle in America's ongoing war over teaching evolution in the public schools. Organized by believers in Intelligent Design and convened by creationists, the hearings provided a testing ground for the successful legal and political tactics that drive today's ongoing actions by anti-evolution organizations in the US and around the world. On the pro-evolution side, they inspired a worldwide boycott of the event by mainstream science. Kansas vs. Darwin reveals the fascinating and sometimes baffling personalities behind the spectacle, with exclusive footage of the hearings and revealing, in-depth interviews with the major figures on both sides. Never revealing their own opinions, the filmmakers allow the characters to fight it out, with emotionally polarizing and often humorous results. The witnesses at the hearings include anti-evolution scientists, educators, and even a middle-eastern journalist. Their opinions are refuted in interviews with their pro-evolution counterparts. More than a political documentary, Kansas vs. Darwin takes you to the dark heart of the culture wars, examining the confusing crossroads of politics, religion, science and education. The film is delineated by chapters that guide the exploration of its various themes, including the meaning of evolution as it affects man's sense of purpose, the definition of science, materialism vs. spirituality, and the responsibility of educators regarding the religious beliefs of their students.

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]]> Jeff Tamblyn Religion, Theology & Ethics http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=455&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8108&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Monday, September 13

Hector Salgado is one of 35,000 Chileans who were incarcerated and tortured by Pinochet's dictatorship. After many years of exile in the U.S. he decides to return to Chile with a camera to show the world the face of his perpetrators. A dozen cowardly military officers appear before us incapable of explaining or taking responsibility for their acts. This documentary, simple and direct, gives audiences around the world a lesson in political memory. I ask myself what would have happened if each one of us 35,000 political prisoners would have done the same as Hector. Surely we would have a much better democracy than the one we have today. Congratulations to the entire production team! Patricio Guzmán, Documentary Filmmaker The Battle of Chile, Case of Pinochet Special Circumstances is an award winning documentary that has screened all over the US and Chile, where it won five awards for Best Documentary, and internationally at film festivals in Guadalajara, Mexico City, Havana, Ecuador, Brazil, Holland, Finland, Colombia, Italy, Spain. To date the film has been the recipient of 9 awards including Best Local Director in San Francisco, Best Editing in Brazil and the Audience Award in Holland.

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]]> Marianne Teleki Human Rights & Global Concerns http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=461&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8069&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Tuesday, September 14

Before Hurricane Katrina catapulted New Orleans into the media spotlight, one of the most successful arts programs for teenagers in the country thrived in a downtown neighborhood. Young Aspirations/Young Artists (YA/YA, Inc.) regrouped after the flood and continues to offer life changing opportunities and lessons in entrepreneurship to artistically talented young New Orleanians. This film is the story of how YA/YA, Inc. was founded and shows how, given the right tools and a fertile environment, motivated young people can do extraordinary things. The young artists of YA/YA paint true stories about their own lives, and create murals, fine art pieces, poetry and rap music that speak out on racism and reflect on community values. YA/YA, Inc. teaches these kids the chance to the chance to apprentice with professional artists, create public artworks, design merchandise, serve as cultural ambassadors, work as project managers, and mentor others in the arts. Ultimately, these kids learn to be professionally self-sufficient through creative self-expression. A powerful case for what happens when a great teacher empowers young people to find their own voices and shows them that they are indeed part of a larger world.

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]]> Shirley Thompson Media, Art & Culture http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=453&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8300&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Wednesday, September 15

Gay Youth was nominated for the Young Adult Library Association's 2006 Select DVD List. It is also included in WW. Norton's 2009 DVD compilation, Sociology in Practice: Thinking about Inequality. Gay Youth continues to be one of the most widely used educational tools about gay and lesbian young people. Adolescence is a time when teenagers need to feel secure in a peer group. But adolescents who are different often have no one to relate to and suffer isolation and bullying. Gay and lesbian young people are at especially high risk for dropping out of school, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, homelessness, and even suicide. Gay Youth is a powerful and accessible educational video for high schools and colleges that breaks the silence surrounding adolescent homosexuality. Across the nation this award-winning video and its 16-page study guide are being used by educators and organizations that care for young people. By contrasting the tragic death of 20-year old Bobby Griffith, a gay teen who could not find acceptance, with the remarkable life of 17-year old Gina Gutierrez, this important video shows us that information, acceptance, and support make enormous differences in the lives of these young people.

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]]> Pam Walton Children, Youth, & Families http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=460&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7843&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Thursday, September 16

This extraordiary work explores the deep connections in a circle of lesbian friends as they face death and celebrate life and love. Viewers say Liberty has documented the meaning of community with rare grace and wit. It is not a wimpy, weepy tale by a mile, but a keen celebration of family values.Liberty demystifies death, dispels misinformation about age and sexual orientation, and reminds us how rich life is, even in the shadow of death.Part One: Death to Life records the death of Joyce Fulton, 66. In the opening scenes, we see her, wasted, beyond speech, with a group of friends around her who are helping her out of this world. Moving backwards in time, we then observe the process of Joyce's terminal brain cancer over the course of two years. In a sense, we see Joyce moving from sick to well, becoming the person she was on the day she celebrated retiring from teaching high school four years earlier.Part Two: Life to Death is a reminiscence of Mary Bell Wilson, 79, described by one of her friends as a Katherine Hepburn type. She is a long time friend of Joyce Fulton, and Joyce reappears several times in Life to Death. Before Mary Bell dies, she has high hopes of building a new home with her lover and partner of 25 years and of riding in Dykes on Bikes in the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. With indefatigable courage, she faces up to her own losing struggle with lymphoma.Part Three: Life is about Nan Golub, a close friend of both Joyce and Mary Bell. In New York, in winter, we see her living as an artist -- a black-leather-jacketed, platinum-dyed city woman. In one sequence she sketches a family tree of the women we've met earlier and suddenly we have a more vivid idea of who they were and what they've meant to each other. Golub ties the three parts of the documentary together and reminds us that in spite of tragedy and death, life is worth living, even worth celebrating.

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]]> Pam Walton LGBT Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=462&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8099&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Friday, September 17

Set in Maumee, Ohio, an idyllic Midwestern suburb with manicured lawns and historic homes, Silences follows the filmmaker's journey to understand his mother, Harriet Warnock, and her refusal to discuss the circumstances of his birth. The camera captures one family's inner demons -- one mention of Warnock-Graham's half-black parentage nearly gives his white grandmother a heart attack. Warnock-Graham's family embodies the denial found in multicultural families across the country, and reminds us that the ideal of racial purity persists in America.

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]]> Octavio Warnock-Graham Multicultural Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=453&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8099&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Saturday, September 18

Set in Maumee, Ohio, an idyllic Midwestern suburb with manicured lawns and historic homes, Silences follows the filmmaker's journey to understand his mother, Harriet Warnock, and her refusal to discuss the circumstances of his birth. The camera captures one family's inner demons -- one mention of Warnock-Graham's half-black parentage nearly gives his white grandmother a heart attack. Warnock-Graham's family embodies the denial found in multicultural families across the country, and reminds us that the ideal of racial purity persists in America.

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]]> Octavio Warnock-Graham Children, Youth, & Families http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=466&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7997&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Sunday, September 19

Sixty-miles east of Reno, in the small military and ranching town of Fallon, Nevada, an unfathomable mystery is unfolding. In the span of just two years, 14 children have been diagnosed with acute-lymphocytic leukemia, and no-one seems to know why. As the film unfolds, two children die and two more cases are discovered, as families square off with scientists, government bureaucrats and media opportunists who are occupied with everything it seems but the welfare of the children. Due to recent medical advances, for the first time in history, the town of Fallon may be able to provide much-needed answers to the impact environmental hazards can have on health. While kids undergo excruciating spinal taps and parents break down, the community is stretched to the breaking point. As the country gears up for war, military exercises at the Fallon naval air base increase, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrive to canvass the population. Is this the ultimate testing ground that will provide much-needed answers for the rest of the world, or the ultimate cover-up? Fallon, NV: Deadly Oasis leads the viewer into a charged landscape of questions…that we as a nation must have the courage to answer.

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]]> Amie Williams Sociology, Political Science & Anthropology http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=490&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8000&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Monday, September 20

The documentary Uncommon Ground is a film about the process of discovery and understanding that young people experience as they come of age and embrace the world they live in. Five multiethnic Los Angeles high school seniors travel to South Africa to meet and live with five South African students in a black township. The film focuses on the day-to-day activities of this diverse group of young people, as they share their experiences with family, school, violence, racism, and oppression. The result is a dynamic exploration of the process of crosscultural exchange and personal identity. The film begins in Los Angeles, where the filmmaker, an anglo-American woman, meets the youth at an anti-apartheid rally on Martin Luther King Day, and questions the significance of the South African struggle to young people in America, including herself. Why is such a remote liberation struggle such a highly charged issue in the US? for all races? We meet the students briefly, and learn about their identification with apartheid, and their initial feelings about what they expect to encounter on the trip. Once in South Africa, the students are introduced to their South African student hosts and their families. Immediately, they are thrust into a whirlwind of activity: visits to black, colored and white schools, community and political groups. Each American student, in collaboration with their South African friends, creates a short, video diary on some aspect of their experience there, which are woven into the film. Written journal entries of the students are used as commentary on the events as they happen. For example, one Latino student video profiles a homeless youth sheltar. An African American youth videotapes and grapples with the meaning of a Xhosa male circumcision ceremony. The filmmaker, too, undergoes a personal transformation while walking through the white South African part of town, and confronting her own identity. The film ends in Los Angeles, under the burning backdrop of the 1992 civil unrest. Each student, one year after returning from South Africa reflects on his/her experience, and what impact the trip has had on their lives and future goals. Uncommon Ground is not about overt political expose. It is about youth awareness and concern, tapping into the personal, day-to-day lives of people living under oppressive, yet rapidly shifting conditions. The film carves a clear space for young people, often overlooked in the broader societal debates of multiculturalism and global relations. Uncommon Ground asks one basic question: From Soweto to South Central L.A., what is it that young people are seeing and experiencing, and how can their concerns be addressed in the media and society at large?

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]]> Amie Williams African & African American Studies http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=467&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8090&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Tuesday, September 21

You're stopped at an intersection, and someone with a sign asks for money. What do you do? Do you give them change or do you stare straight ahead pretending they're not there? With humor and compassion, When The Light's Red chronicles the filmmaker's own experience with intersection panhandling. Narrated with his own conflicted and stark inner dialogue, the filmmaker seeks guidance from other drivers, a homeless services provider and panhandlers themselves. The film asks the difficult question: How do you size up a person in the span of a red light?

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]]> Keith Wilson Urban Studies, Community Organizing and The Environment http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=452&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7916&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Wednesday, September 22

The Collector of Bedford Street is a short documentary,nominated for an Academy Award, that follows Larry Selman, the film maker's 60 year old neighbor. A community activist and fundraiser with developmental disabilities, Larry raises thousands of dollars for charity every year while he lives at the poverty level. Because of Larry's 20 years of service to his neighborhood, the community created a supplemental need adult trust fund for him. This was the first time that a group, rather than an individual's family did this. The film humanizes the story behind the abstract statistics of mental retardation, revealing how a community builds tolerance and understanding.This unique portrait was created by a collaboration between the filmmaker and the subject. The narrative uses scenes of Larry interacting with people within his West Village, Manhattan neighborhood, candid conversations, and his voice-over from recorded interviews. The film makes transitions with voice-over messages that were recorded from the filmmaker’s answering machine during the five years of production. The shooting style is hand held and spontaneous, with a subjective point of view. The focus is on telling the story. Ultimately the portrait normalizes “the other”, showing that Larry’s fears and loves are universal.Larry is a fundraiser and a community activist. He is an intrinsic part of this Manhattan neighborhood. In The Collector of Bedford Street we see Larry making his unique contribution to the area by soliciting money for local and national charities. Largely because of Larry's efforts during the last 25 years, the block association has given over $300,000 in contributions to local non-profit organizations. For Muscular Dystrophy, Larry raised the largest amount in the New York metro area during their Be a Star campaign. When he was offered a watch as a prize, he chose a woman's watch to give to a friend. His other efforts include $1522 for the AIDS Walk and $600 for a Pediatric AIDS clinic. This year, 2005, he has raised over $10,000 for three different charities.Despite his success at fund-raising, Larry, like many other people with disabilities, confronts a time of crises. He experiences life on the front lines of government assistance. Citizens with developmental disabilities are often faced with housing emergencies, prejudice and rejection. The acronym NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard) is the rallying cry for those who want to exclude and isolate people with mental retardation and other disabilities. According to Kathleen McGinley, director of advocacy for The National Disabilities Rights Network, a national organization that advocates for people with disabilities, “The greatest difficulties facing individuals with mental retardation today are community acceptance and housing needs”.During the movie we see the members of the Block Association create a supplemental needs Adult Trust Fund for Larry. This fund allows Larry to continue to live independently after his 87 year-old uncle is no longer able to help care for him. Thematically The Collector of Bedford Street helps us examine the issues of community and service. What makes a community strong? What pulls us apart? How do we include and exclude? How do we grow? When do we become responsible for each other? Is diversity worth the cost? This West Village community provides a model. In The Collector of Bedford Street we see how a community now embraces rather than excludes.

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]]> Alice Elliott Aging & Gerontology http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=455&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7919&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Thursday, September 23

Can student activists make a difference in issues of war, peace or human rights? One powerful answer is in this documentary.Five Days to Change the World follows student activists from several countries while they are attending the largest world peace conference in history, as they create plans for their own future. Some of their agenda has already been realized.In May 1999, 10,000 people from 100 countries gathered for the Hague Appeal for Peace and Justice. Narrated by Martin Sheen, Five Days to Change the World is a riveting account of the historic event - ignored by U.S. mainstream media.Archival footage puts the issues they grappled with into context: child soldiers, land mines, small arms trade, nuclear weapons, racism, an international criminal court, and peace education.Among those appearing in Five Days to Change the World are Nobel Peace Prize winners Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan, Jose Ramos Horta, Aung San Suu Kyi and Jody Williams; authors Arundhati Roy, Jonathan Schell, Vandana Shiva; Queen Noor of Jordan; conference leader Cora Weiss; singer Judy Collins and hip hop artist/actor Mos Def.

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]]> Robert Richter Human Rights & Global Concerns http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=467&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8060&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Friday, September 24

A Day's Work, A Day's Pay follows three welfare recipients in New York City from 1997 to 2000 as they participate in the largest welfare-to-work program in the nation. When forced to work at city jobs for well below the prevailing wage and deprived of the chance to go to school, these individuals decide to fight back, demanding programs that will actually help them move off of welfare and into jobs. A Day's Work, A Day's Pay traces the personal and political evolution of its three main characters. Juan Galan successfully organizes WEP workers while battling the demons of his own poverty-stricken childhood. Jackie Marte, who drops out of school in order to raise her two children, tries desperately to stay out of workfare, and in the nick of time succeeds in finding a job-training program that allows her to leave welfare for good. Jose Nicolau overcomes his timidity as he learns to organize against workfare, inspiring his peers with impassioned speeches, and testifying to the City Council about sexual harassment of WEP workers. As the film tracks the three-year effort to pass two critical pieces of legislation, viewers will come to understand the real-life impact that social policy has on human beings. They will also comprehend the effort required for poor and working people to transform themselves from victims of the System to fully empowered citizens who take control of their own lives.

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]]> Jonathan Skurnik Urban Studies, Community Organizing and The Environment http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=466&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7922&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Saturday, September 25

Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World is a compelling study of the Hopi that captures their deep spirituality and reveals their integration of art and daily life. Amidst the beautiful images of Hopi land and life, a variety of Hopi--a farmer, religious elder, grandmother, painter, potter and weaver--speak about the preservation of the Hopi way.

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]]> Pat Ferrero Sociology, Political Science & Anthropology http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=455&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7997&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Sunday, September 26

Sixty-miles east of Reno, in the small military and ranching town of Fallon, Nevada, an unfathomable mystery is unfolding. In the span of just two years, 14 children have been diagnosed with acute-lymphocytic leukemia, and no-one seems to know why. As the film unfolds, two children die and two more cases are discovered, as families square off with scientists, government bureaucrats and media opportunists who are occupied with everything it seems but the welfare of the children. Due to recent medical advances, for the first time in history, the town of Fallon may be able to provide much-needed answers to the impact environmental hazards can have on health. While kids undergo excruciating spinal taps and parents break down, the community is stretched to the breaking point. As the country gears up for war, military exercises at the Fallon naval air base increase, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrive to canvass the population. Is this the ultimate testing ground that will provide much-needed answers for the rest of the world, or the ultimate cover-up? Fallon, NV: Deadly Oasis leads the viewer into a charged landscape of questions…that we as a nation must have the courage to answer.

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]]> Amie Williams Human Rights & Global Concerns http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=455&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7879&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Monday, September 27

Today's Patriot Act and increasing restrictions on freedom makes this timeless documentary even more relevant. It is a thought-provoking and entertaining investigation of the far-reaching effects of the McCarran Walter Act. The Patriot Act has revived much of that McCarthy era law that had been used to bar 250,000 foreigners from entering the U.S. on political grounds. In our documentary exclusive interviews with prominent U.S. cultural and political figures amplify the legacy of this blockade of democracy's free flow of ideas.The filmmakers went to a dozen countries to interview a range of people invited to the US to participate in cultural activities and who were denied visas, to learn what they might have said and done had they been allowed to enter the US.. These include Nobel Prize winners Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Dario Fo, a NATO general, a Buddhist monk, an Irish Sinn Fein leader, a Brazilian architect who helped design United Nations headquarters in New York, an El Salvador human rights activist, a prominent Mexican novelist, a Swedish philosopher, a Belgian economist and the widow of the slain President of Chile. Arthur Miller and Rep. Barney Frank are among the critics of the law who appear in the film. Defenders of the visa denials appearing in the documentary include State Department officials and William F. Buckley.

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]]> Robert Richter Human Rights & Global Concerns http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=464&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8081&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Tuesday, September 28

John and Noel are in a panic. The condom broke during sex, and John happens to have AIDS. Joanne breaks down when the counselor asks about her HIV-positive husband Robert. In their six-year marriage, Joanne has been tested twice a year, each time more stressful than the last. One + One takes an unflinching look at the lives of these two couples of mixed HIV status--one straight, one gay--as they navigate the physical and emotional minefield inherent in every serodiscordant relationship. This poignant film gives insights to how serodiscordant couples cope with the difficult task of living with HIV on a daily basis, and the deep bond they share because of it.

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]]> Leo Chiang Physical & Mental Health & Addiction http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=453&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=8162&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Wednesday, September 29

Meet Ariana, Isha, Rosie and Esme as they let go of childhood and fumble, or sprint, toward an uncertain future. Without flinching, Going On 13 chronicles four girls' coming of age and the precarious moments between being a little girl and becoming a young woman. As they grapple with issues of school, family, friends, and identity, Going On 13 allows us to see what real girls face during this pivotal time of puberty, while providing a vehicle for discussing important developmental milestones. The DVD and accompanying interactive study/discussion guide (available at www.newday.com) helps educators teach about girls' lives and youth development in 21st century urban America. Going On 13 asks many important and critical questions, including: How do girls develop healthy identities while growing up in increasingly challenging communities? What does it take for a girl of color to grow up in our cities today? What do parents need to do help their daughters succeed? How do families maintain their home culture while supporting their daughters' navigating the American landscape? Going On 13 sheds light on the inner life of girls in our communities and reveals the spark and resilience each girl must cultivate in order to maintain a high self-esteem and love herself.

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]]> Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Dawn Valadez Children, Youth, & Families http://www.newdaydigital.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=452&flypage=shop.flypage_newday&product_id=7929&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59 Airing all day on Thursday, September 30

Flying in the face of this culture's extreme ageism, Still Doing It explores the lives of older women. Partnered, single, straight, gay, black and white; nine extraordinary women, age 67-87, express with startling honesty and humor how they feel about themselves, sex, and love in later life and the poignant realities of aging. Outspoken for their generation, these women mark a sea change. Women over 65 are the fastest-growing segment of the population and in 2011, when the baby boomers begin to turn 65, their numbers will swell. Still Doing It looks at this society's complex relationship to women and aging with surprising and revelatory results.

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]]> Deirdre Fishel Aging & Gerontology