2012 New Releases Catalogue November - Learningemall.com

GENETICS
SUN SUN SUN KISSED
KISSED
Directed by Maya Stark and Adi Lavy
One gene exposes a nation's dark past. A
Navajo couple with two children born with
an extremely rare genetic disorder
investigate the cause of the outbreak.
For fifteen years Dorey and Yolanda Nez
thought they were the only family on the
Navajo Reservation who had children with
an extremely rare genetic disorder that
only shows up at a rate of one in a million
in the general population. Behind the
closed curtains of their trailer, parked in
the stark desert of New Mexico, they care
for their 16-year-old daughter Leanndra.
Just like her brother who passed away at
age 11, Leanndra was born with
Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP), a rare
genetic disorder that makes any exposure
to sunlight fatal.
Filmed over three years, with
unprecedented access to the Navajo
community, Sun Kissed follows Dorey and
Yolanda as they bravely confront long-held
tribal taboos and question the rebellious
choices of their youth. Ultimately their
journey leads them to the shocking truth:
Their children and other Navajo children
are still paying the price for the American
conquest of the tribe in the 1860s, a brutal
campaign culminating in an
almost-forgotten chapter in American
history -- the Navajo "Long Walk" of 1864.
Despite its importance as the defining
moment in modern Navajo history and the
beginning of their assimilation into
American society, discussing the tragedy
of the Long Walk remains a taboo topic
within the Navajo community.
What Dorey and Yolanda find challenges
the core of their identity and everything
they believe in, and exposes a fresh
perspective on the complex, cross-cultural
identity of modern day Navajos. Focusing
on the continuing implications of American
colonialism and the genetic imprints it has
left on this community, Sun Kissed
presents a rare and realistic window into
the issues confronting Native Americans
today.
Reviews
� "A rare filmmaking
accomplishment...an amazing work
that will touch your soul." - Bruce
Johansen, Professor, Native
American Studies, University of
Nebraska
� "Sun Kissed is a quiet, insistent look
at some of the lasting effects of the
Long Walk. It examines both the
unknown and the unknowable along
with the well known and the ignored.
This is a film that should be examined
along the wide arc of Native issues in
contemporary America." - Theodore
Van Alst, Assistant Dean of Yale
College, Director of the Native
American Cultural Center, Yale
University
Item no. : PR02560826
Format : DVD
Duration : 85 minutes
Audience : Grades 10-12, College,
Adults
Copyright : 2012
StdBkNo : 1937772438
Price : USD 295.00
GEOGRAPHY
10TH 10TH PARALLEL
PARALLEL
PARALLEL
By Silvio Da-Rin
10th PARALLEL takes us on a 300-mile
journey up Brazil's Envira river into the
heart of the Amazon Rainforest, to the
frontier of a territory populated by the
country's uncontacted indigenous tribes.
Our guide is Jose Carlos Meirelles, a
sertanista - one of the Amazon
frontiersman employed by FUNAI, the
National Indian Foundation of Brazil. With
anthropologist Txai Terri de Aquino, he
leads us to the Ethno-Environmental
Protection Front of the Envira River, a
FUNAI outpost he founded at the foot of
the 10th Parallel South, the latitude that
marks Brazil's border with Peru, cheek by
jowl with the largest population of isolated
indigenous people in the world.
Until 1987, FUNAI attempted to make
contact with previously isolated tribes and
integrate them within the Brazilian state.
The policy had disastrous results: the
death of hundreds of thousands of
indigenous people, and, in some cases,
the virtual enslavement of others on behalf
of government or industry.
Since then, FUNAI has sought to maintain
these tribes' isolation. Sertanistas like
Meirelles, the very people who used to
make first contact with the tribes on behalf
of the government, are now charged with
ensuring the new policy is observed.
10th PARALLEL documents 21 days of
this frequently dangerous, always delicate
labor. With few resources beyond decades
of experience in the indigenous cause, the
specialists negotiate with the established
riverside indigenous communities, and
face traffickers and squatters who try to
invade the area. Meirelles describes
sometimes harrowing encounters with
members of the uncontacted tribes,
including an ambush during which he was
pierced through the face and neck with
arrows.
Even more than his bravery, we see
Meirelles' dedication. In his meetings with
the previously contacted and settled
riverside tribes who live closest to the
isolated communities, we see some of the
thorny practicalities entailed by FUNAI's
approach. After a number of conflicts and
thefts involving the "wild" Indians, with
casualties on both sides, Meirelles must
propose possible solutions for peaceful
coexistence, offering concessions on
behalf of the government to the contacted
indigenous communities that have
suffered the greatest losses.
10th PARALLEL brings us deep into the
Amazon and into close proximity with the
rainforest's uncontacted populations to
reveal the fascinating and complex issues
at stake in FUNAI's policy on isolated
tribes - a policy that has become a
reference worldwide. We see that
non-contact is not a policy of passivity or
neglect, but rather entails all the subtle
questions and balancing of constituencies
as any other government program.
Item no. : KA03100830
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 87 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 398.00
GERMAN CINEMA
AND CULTURE
NOSFERATU NOSFERATU NOSFERATU (ULTIMATE
(ULTIMATE
(ULTIMATE
EDITION)
EDITION)
Director: F. W. Murnau
Starring: Max Schreck
A cornerstone of the horror film, F.W.
Murnau's NOSFERATU is triumphantly
reborn in this breathtaking new restoration
by the F.W. Murnau Foundation. Backed
by an orchestral performance of Hans
Erdmann's 1922 score (recorded in 5.1
stereo surround), this edition is derived
from a new high-definition transfer of
Murnau's masterpiece, with
unprecedented visual clarity and historical
faithfulness to the original release version.
Item no. : HK11990254
Format : DVD (Black and White)
Duration : 94 minutes
Price : USD 229.00
GERONTOLOGY
MARCH: MARCH: A A PORTRAIT PORTRAIT OF OF
OF
ELEANOR ELEANOR ANDERSON
ANDERSON
Profile of Eleanor Anderson, a keen
ninety-two-year-old nursing-home resident,
who maintains a sense of well-being in
spite of her loss of independence by
evincing a practical and optimistic outlook.
In this program, taped during the month of
March, she cites several reasons for her
ability to transcend institutionalization:
interacting regularly with others, sustaining
a high level of activity, and exercising both
her body and her mind.
Item no. : EB07860250
Format : DVD
Duration : 24 minutes
Price : USD 175.00
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