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How Hollywood Does It is a look at the history, techniques, movements and people who create the magic of motion pictures. Documentary talks about some of the different styles of documentary filmmaking from the birth of cinema to the present day. It is a multi-part look at the history, techniques, movements, and people who create the magic that we call motion pictures. Today's program will talk about a style of filmmaking outside of the normal fiction...
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Cochlear implants could soon make a lifetime of profound deafness a thing of the past-and in the process bring an end to America's vibrant Deaf culture. In this program, NewsHour correspondent Betty Ann Bowser takes a balanced look at the implications of cochlear implant technology on the Deaf community. Dr. John Niparko, director of The Listening Center at Johns Hopkins; King Jordan, president of Gallaudet University; and others share their markedly...
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In this video, Rick Davis interviews Christian D'Andrea, a documentary television producer whose credits include HALO: Freefall Warriors and Searching for God in Iraq. He co-developed an energy bar for soldiers and civilians called SoldierFuel. Topics include D'Andrea's background, working in a talent agency, producing military documentaries, and advice for students. Learn how industry professionals became successful in the How to Make It in Film...
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Caren Cross began her filmmaking career as writer/director of the Gracie award winning documentary Lost and Found in Mexico. The film focuses on the reasons why U.S. citizens move to Mexico. Covering all aspects of the filmmaking process, this program is designed to teach students what it takes to make it in the business.
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Mimi Machado-Luces is an Emmy, Telly and ProMax award winning producer, writer, and director. Her works include documentary films, television programs, health education films, commercial advertisements, and television promotion spots. Machado-Luces won critical acclaim with La Vida in Black, a character portrait of Afro-Latinos living in the Americas.
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This program features an interview with Albert and David Maysles on what they then (1969) called a new technique of natural movie making, Direct Cinema, as well as excerpts from their first feature length film shot in this technique, The Salesman (about door to door sale of the Bible in working class neighborhoods of Boston). At a time when hand held cameras were not used professionally and could not record synchronous sound, the Maysles developed...
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In this interview at George Mason University, Mike Walter talks with Rick Davis about his award winning film, Breaking News Breaking Down. Hear why he left broadcast journalism and what inspired him to tell the story of how journalists are affected by the traumatic events they report.
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In this video, Rick Davis interviews Aviva Kempner, a long-time documentary filmmaker whose works cover a broad range of issues, such as homelessness, civil rights, and the Holocaust. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is one of her most noted works. The film won many awards, including the Peabody Award and awards from the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Kempner is also the founder...
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Lance Kramer is a co-founder of Meridian Hill Picture; a platform for producing independent social impact documentaries, commissioned films with leading nonprofit organizations, and innovative media arts education programs. In 2014, Kramer accepted the Mayor's Arts Award in Innovation, the highest honor given to a working artist in Washington, DC.
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Holly and Paul Fine are a husband and wife team of documentary producer/directors. Their works garnered 10 National Emmy and 75 Local Emmy awards, in addition to four Peabody awards. The couple had a long association with the CBS news program 60 Minutes and produced a number of television specials including In the Killing Fields of America. After leaving CBS, the Fines signed with ABC to produce specials for the hit series: 20/20, Turning Point and...
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This is the first documentary about Black ASL: the unique dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that developed within historically segregated African American Deaf communities. Black ASL today conveys an identity and sense of belonging that mirrors spoken language varieties of the African American hearing community. The program highlights the different uses of space, hand use, directional movement, and facial expression, which are ways that Black...
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Starting Over focuses on the future to help kids who cannot go home realize and consider their options. Viewers hear advice from runaways who have dropped out of school and are struggling to get off the streets, off drugs, and out of prostitution. Residents and counselors at homeless shelters paint a vivid picture of life at the shelter - the rules they enforce, the assistance they provide, and the success they have in helping teens overcome their...
15) Lost Illusions
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This program covers the following topics: the French Communist Party and anti-Stalinism; the Algerian War; Jean Genet; Franz Fanon; Sartre; and the cause of Third World revolution.
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Explains teens' vulnerabilities to dating abuse, and describes tell-tale behaviors of teen abusers and teen victims. Addresses parents' role in recognizing associated warning signs. Provides guidelines to parents for communicating with teens to support healthy relationships and for monitoring teens' behavior to ensure their safety.
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Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. Working in close collaboration with the British psychiatrist John Bowlby, Ainsworth gave us new understandings of the huge impact very early emotional experiences have on personality development across the life span. The production details the developmental course of attachment behaviors and the different patterns...
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Covers statistics of obesity in the U.S. Examines environmental changes that have resulted in increased food availability and decreased opportunities for physical activity. Covers the possible roles of individual responsibility, schools, communities, local governments, and commercial corporations in promoting healthy food choices and active lifestyles.