The film follows the journey of a Dominican-born hotel housekeeper Carmen Castillo as she navigates serving on the City Council in Providence, Rhode Island while working a full-time job cleaning hotel rooms. COUNCILWOMAN is a co-production of Time Travel Productions LLC, in association with Rayuela…
**EDUCATORS: please email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Margo Guernsey US | 2018 | 57 minutes | Color -- COUNCILWOMAN is the inspiring story of Carmen Castillo, an immigrant Dominican housekeeper in a Providence hotel who wins a seat in City Council, taking her advocacy…
Counselling an Asian woman. A one-to-one session with a young Asian woman embarking on an arranged marriage. We see her later with a group of other young women discussing her fears about sex and the status of Asian women with regard to sexual and life choices. Although made some years ago the…
Counselling a woman with gonorrhoea. Shows the counsellor breaking the news to a married Caribbean woman that she has gonorrhoea. We later see her helping the woman and her husband reconcile some of the differences within their relationship. Although made some years ago the issues raised are still…
A doctor counsels an Arab couple with marital and sexual difficulties. Shows a doctor counselling an Arab couple with marital and sexual difficulties. The video shows the counsellor helping the man to see how the power imbalance within the marriage is affecting their relationship. Although made…
Three counsellors in a family planning clinic. A drama set in a fictitious Family Planning centre. We follow a trainee counsellor observing three different counsellors in action, and sharing her experiences with other trainees. The scenarios are shortened versions of the scenes shown in the other…
A detailed presentation of how the law impacts on counselling work. Counselling and the law make uneasy bedfellows. Whilst counsellors often have no more than a vague idea of the ways in which the legal system might impact on their work, the legal profession is quite clear about what therapists should…
Four case studies bring out counselling issues connected with disability. Based on four case studies, this tape helps professionals to understand their clients' crises of identity, low self esteem, sexuality, loss of control and fears for the future. Are we giving disabled people the help they…
Two techniques for resolving unfinished business with someone who has died. A demonstration of two techniques used for saying goodbye to, or resolving unfinished business with someone who has died - the letter and the empty chair. A young woman whose mother is dead expresses her feelings of bitterness…
Britain has one of the worst records for coronary heart disease in the world and much of the blame lies with the high fat diet which causes furring up of arteries. In this World in Action report new research is examined which suggests that the damage damage caused by a bad diet during childhood maybe…
December 16 marked the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, a pivotal moment in the march toward the American Revolution. But by 1773, New York was already heavily involved in the burgeoning quest for independence. This talk/virtual walk looks at the embers that were still burning from the French…
The 1960 U-2 incident, told through the story of spies on different sides of the Iron Curtain, one of whom is the CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers. This tells the story of an American pilot who was shot down in a U-2 spy plane over Soviet Union and a Norwegian fisherman, Selmer Nilsen, who used a carnival…
