Made for Scope when it was know as 'The Spastics Society', this film gives an excellent picture of the difficulties and the causes of cerebral palsy. It shows opportunities in education, skills development, leicsure and therapy and shows the work of both professionals and volunteers in the…
Five women with different disabilities (brittle bones, deafness, cerebral palsy, polio and blindness) and two of their husbands (also disabled) talk about their experiences and how they have coped with any problems, which often stem more from other people's attitudes than from their own disability.…
Made by a team of young women, this video sets out to prove in a lively way that girls should have a chance to do anything boys do, and a mixed race group talk about their teachers' attitudes. Young women learning plumbing, carpentry and electrical engineering talk about their skills and their friends'…
As a tropical storm slams the Philippine island of Cebu, two sisters leave work and never make it home. That same night, hundreds of miles away in Manila on a different island, Paco Larrañaga, 19, is at a party, surrounded by dozens of reliable witnesses. The missing women, Marijoy, 21,and Jacqueline…
By and about people at an adult training centre for people with learning disabilities. A video made by and about people at the Redlands Adult Training Centre; it takes a personal approach, but speaks of wider issues that relate to many people with disabilities. It offers an insight into the lives…
Animated film about the harassment of women by men. Animated film about the harassment of women by men, ranging from ‘street humour’ and stereotyped media images to actual physical violence. How this is handled by one woman. This humorous and challenging film seeks to engender discussion…
Guts, glory and sheer determination lead a team out of the darkness and back into the light… . Two years removed from a State Championship, the Grant Pacers are poised to make another title run. But fierce opponents, the neighborhood, and a major tragedy – the violent, midseason death…
Pioneering video documentary of a home birth. Shot in the Yucatan, Mexico, where a child is delivered Mayan style, in a hammock, by a Mayan midwife. Graphic detail of the childbirth. Produced in 1972 as part of a visit to Mexico as chronicled in the book, "On the Bus: Truckin' Through Mexico…
One of a series of trigger films aimed at smokers and young people considering the habit. This film is in three sections and shows an adult group who are trying to give up smoking. The first part looks at the group at the outset of the course. The second sequence shows them at the end of the same day…
Stromboli, Sicilia. Kristin Linklater, insegnante di voce e text coach, conduce un gruppo internazionale di 15 attori in un percorso di esplorazione delle proprie voci e di alcune storie dalle Metamorfosi di Ovidio nella versione in lingua inglese di Ted Hughes (1997). E’ la prima fase di un processo…
The rental of this film is for personal use only. The aim of the film is to create opportunities for the diverse stories of women's menopausal experience to be shared and heard. Organisations wishing to share this film are asked to pay a fee for any screenings, and to consider curated conversations…
Tackles the difficulties faced by unemployed people of selection interviews. The video consists of four 'cameos' - three how not to be interviewed and one which gets it right. Through slightly outrageous comedy it stresses all the negative aspects of three very different types of people. It…
