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.

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Produced by Dr. Maryanne Galvin in 2004, this lively documentary challenges many of the commonly held beliefs about female sexuality, gender roles, and relationships. According to the  Boston Museum of Fine Arts,  this 52 minute educational and entertaining program features seven articulate, highly diverse women discussing marriage, celibacy, sexuality, sensuality,  gender roles, beauty, sisterhood, community, intimacy and work.   Ranging from a Generation X midwife to a 94 year old psychologist and sex therapist, the women profiled offer varied perspectives on the evolution of pleasure since the women's movement began over forty years ago. These women are not high profile activists,  but real women whose lives have been affected by changes in our society.
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The state of Tamil Nadu is located along the south east coast of the Indian subcontinent. The Tamil culture and language is said to have its origins in prehistoric times and is related to the ancient Dravidian culture of Southern India. The rural region of interior Tamil Nadu is made up of thousands of small villages, most with no electricity, inadequate health care and on-going problems with inadequate sanitation and water supplies. Health care is not affordable for most families. Produced and directed by Professor Annette Danto of Brooklyn College, THE NEVER ENDING PATH tells the stories of the women living in rural Tamil Nadu. From 5 family units, the women share many of the concerns facing mothers and their daughters throughout rural regions OF Southeast Asia. As with women from poor villages in many parts of the world, issues of dowry, their daughters' educational opportunities, and economic hardship are discussed, along with inter-caste and arranged marriages.

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While so many couples today are going to extraordinary lengths to be parents, other couples are making the decision to be CHILDLESS BY CHOICE. Although childlessness is less of a taboo lately, there are still distinctly differing opinions about having children. Thee documentary examines several couples and singles about leading lives that are not family-centered. Decisions the couples grapple with are based on freedom, career choice, worldviews, disposition toward children in general and an unwillingness to take on the responsibility.
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In this educational film, a woman in her 40’s living on a farm with her husband and teenage son is obligated take care of her dying mother-in-law, while her husband manages the farm. She then learns that she is pregnant and “avoids” telling her husband. How this woman deals with this dilemma will certainly spark discussion in a variety of classroom settings.
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Miriam, Lizzie, Penny and Ruth are senior women who are part of a winning synchronized swimming team. When we first meet, it is four weeks before the National competition in Florida,. Lizzie paints her gold medals to make them look better. Penny has managed to rope in her daughter Meredith to be a part of the team. Synchronized swimming managed to get Miriam through her chemotherapy. Ruth has to juggle a career and her family with the swimming. In UNSYNCABLES AT ANY AGE, we see how friendship and a love of synchronized swimming have kept these 4 energetic women healthy and still focused on the future looking forward to the next competition.
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