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Amuse Bouche: A Chef's Tale
Chef Barbara Lynch-does she love to cook or cook to love? “Amuse Bouche: A Chef's Tale” explores the controversial, comical and inspirational layers of nationally recognized chef, Barbara Lynch of No. 9 Park on Beacon Hill, Boston. This intimate documentary-named after the chef's complimentary appetizer-uses vivid events from Lynch's life story. A female, real-life “Good Will Hunting”, Lynch overcame poverty, depression, violence and social stigma to rise through the ranks and establish herself in a male dominated business with a 60 % failure rate. Although the film's message is one of optimism, Lynch's story recognizes how the confining definitions of traditional femininity have created internal barriers to achievement for many young women. Using a compilation of family photographs, exclusive interviews, archival and animated footage, “Amuse Bouche” demonstrates how women and men can gain confidence in their abilities, mobilize themselves, and utilize self-assertion to achieve their dreams. Price: $149.95
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HOW TO MAKE IT IN HOLLYWOOD....
HOW TO MAKE IT IN HOLLYWOOD BEFORE YOU MAKE IT (2004) (For Film Studies and Sociology Programs)
So you want to be an actor, a director, a producer or a songwriter. You can envision yourself in Hollywood some day, but you're not sure what to expect. HOW TO MAKE IT IN HOLLYWOOD BEFORE YOU MAKE IT is a compelling portrait of 10 emerging young artists on the front lines of Hollywood. Running the gamut from actors, writers, producers, dancers, singers and songwriters, they are all at different stages of their career. They are people who work at their crafts, make some money, but aren't yet household names.
(63 min. DVD only Price $229.95 S&H $8.95)
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BACK TO THE VILLAGE (2006)
(For Economics, Cultural Studies and South Asian Studies)
South Indian villages have been an almost closed world unto themselves for centuries …..this is no longer the case. Globalization has paved the way for cheap imports, handicrafts have been replaced by plastic goods, with the consequent loss of livelihood. Less land, less water, and a massive population growth is forcing millions of villagers into the cities in search of work. While the south Indian city of Bangalore has been lauded as the world’s new IT capital, there is a dark side: two million slum dwellers, one quarter of its population, doesn’t have running water let alone a computer. A thought provoking documentary film BACK TO THE VILLAGE focuses on the causes and results of rural-urban migration, a phenomenon that is strangling capitals in filth and its dwellers in misery in the developing world, as governments, pushed on by investment, in India and elsewhere, rush to build industrial centres, draining much needed funding to the rural sector. The film is also a study of resilient Indian people, and age-old friendships, and takes us on a journey, where we experience the survival strategies for several rural societies, through the eyes of villagers themselves.
(26 min. DVD only Price $219.95 S&H $8.95)
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US NOW (2009)
(For Political Science, Business and Sociology Programs)
A film about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet, US NOW opens with student Jack Howe staring intently into his computer screen. He is picking the team for Ebbsfleet United's FA Trophy Semi-Final match against Aldershot . Around the world 35,000 other fans are doing the same thing, because together, they own and manage the football club. If distributed networks of people can run complex organizations such as football clubs, what else can they do? Us Now takes a look at how this type of participation could transform the way that countries are governed. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government forever. Us Now follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United, a football club owned and run by its fans; Zopa, a bank in which everyone is the manager; and Couch Surfing, a vast online network whose members share their homes with strangers.The founding principles of these projects -- transparency, self-selection, open participation -- are coming closer and closer to the mainstream of our social and political lives.
(60 min. DVD only Price $239.95 S&H $8.95)
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