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1) Balian
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (82 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A visually provocative film shot over 20 years, Balian is an engrossing fable of globalization. It tracks the remarkable rise and fall of a Balinese healer and priest after he is discovered by Western tourists. Note: there is nudity in the film.
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (60 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Controversial 1968 film that examined the increasing utilization and cost to the taxpayers of public relations activities by the military-industrial complex in order to shape public opinion in favor of the military. Narrated by Roger Mudd, the film focused on three areas of Pentagon activity to illustrate its theme of public manipulation: direct contacts with the public, Defense Department films, and the Pentagon’s use of the commercial media–the...
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2016]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (96 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dateline: Saigon profiles five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists’ groundbreaking reporting during the early years of the Vietnam War. As President Kennedy committed US troops to what was initially dismissed as a “nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants,” these five young reporters took on a superpower — and who won?
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2015
Publisher
Northern Lights Productions
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Blu-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (57 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This labor of love by Hollywood screenwriter Bill Phillips, profiles Sabra Field. Born in 1935, Vermont-based Field achieved fame for masterful printmaking. The film explores Field’s most popular images – New England pastoral motifs – and asks why some critics dismiss the pastoral as an appropriate subject for contemporary art. The film investigates her decision to interpolate a variety of stylistic influences in defiance of commercial demands...
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
s.n.]
Pub. Date
c2019
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An illuminating portrait of the work of controversial film critic Pauline Kael and her profound influence on the male-dominated worlds of cinema and film criticism.
6) Big wata
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (79 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Big Wata is a entertaining documentary about the first and only surf club in Sierra Leone. During an Ebola outbreak the younger members of a West African fishing community discover surfing as their identity and purpose in life.
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (80 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Through the Windmill looks at the history of miniature golf in the United States and how it has evolved over the last 100 years. The film explores the unique, family-friendly roadside attractions and the people who design, build and operate them.
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
TransMilitary chronicles the lives of four individuals defending their country’s freedom while fighting for their own. They put their careers and their families’ livelihoods on the line by coming out as transgender to top brass officials in the Pentagon in hopes of attaining the equal right to serve. The ban was lifted in 2016, but with President Trump now having reinstated it, their futures hang in the balance once again.
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (83 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film’s director Mohammed Naqvi will vote for the first time during Pakistan’s elections but he has a tough choice between a religious hardliner and a secular liberal leader who happens to be a former military dictator. Who will he vote for and is democracy achievable in Pakistan?
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2019?]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A close examination of a mother’s life at home with a one year old and an absent father.
11) Fail state
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (94 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An expansive documentary exposé, the film reveals the dark story behind the rise of predatory for-profit colleges and how a cabal of politicians and unscrupulous business tycoons sold out the dream of American higher education. Fail State is executive produced by news legend Dan Rather.
12) Shame
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (95 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shame, a riveting Emmy–winning documentary, tells the story of international human rights icon Mukhtaran Mai. She is a Pakistani peasant who was gang-raped and shamed as a teenager in her village, but then used her trauma to spark a legal revolution that exposed centuries of tribal conflict and government mismanagement.
13) Invisible hands
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
s.l
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
[Exhibition screener]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Ferguson, Invisible Hands is the first feature documentary to expose child labor and trafficking within the supply chains of the world's biggest companies. Filmed in six countries, including India, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Ghana, it is a harrowing account of children as young as six years old making the products we use every day. Invisible Hands marks the directorial debut of journalist Shraysi Tandon....
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
The Film Collaborative
Pub. Date
2019]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five friends embark on an epic 1,200-mile mountain bike, horse, and canoe expedition down the Rio Grande River to document the borderlands before construction of a wall and to explore how it would impact wildlife, immigration, public lands, border security, and landowners.
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2019?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make, she’s getting stronger.
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (76 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against All Odds-The Fight for a Black Middle Class looks at the difficulty African Americans face in establishing and maintaining a middle class standard of living. Through dramatic historical footage and personal interviews, the documentary explores the efforts of black families to pursue the American dream.
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2018
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) (71 minutes) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tracking the rise and fall of the new American oil boom, My Country No More paints an intimate portrait of a rural North Dakota community in crisis, forced to confront the meaning of progress as they fight for a disappearing way of life.
18) Lynch, a history
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
s.n.]
Pub. Date
[2018?]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lynch: A History explores the silence that nonconformist NFL star Marshawn Lynch deploys as a form of resistance. Culling more than 700 video clips and placing them in dramatic, rapid, and radical juxtaposition, the film is a powerful political parable about the American media-sports complex and its deep complicity with racial oppression.
19) Made in Boise
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2019?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four women find purpose carrying babies for strangers in the conservative heartland of Boise, Idaho, the unregulated and unofficial 'surrogacy capital' of the United States' and encounter unexpected complexities along the way.
In Boise, Idaho, where 70% of new arrivals are gay men from overseas, as many as one in fifteen mothers will become surrogates in their lifetime. Surrogacy has nearly quadrupled in the last 20 years, and this small Western city...
20) Reversing Roe
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2018?]
Edition
Blue-ray disc
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blu-ray) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A deep historical look at one of the most controversial issues of our time, highlighting the abortion debate from various points along the ideological spectrum in a winding story of abortion in America.
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