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<strong>com</strong>plex series of offerings to the hearth,<br />
the ants, the river, and the deceased.<br />
Silvestre Pantaleon then struggles to pull<br />
together the money needed to pay for the<br />
curing ceremony and provide for his family,<br />
dedicating himself to the only<br />
remunerative activities he knows:<br />
handcrafting rope (made from the maguey<br />
plant) for religious ceremonies, and<br />
making seldom-used household objects<br />
that he alone still has the skills to produce.<br />
SILVESTRE PANTALEON -the result of a<br />
collaboration between an anthropologist<br />
who lives Oapan and a filmmaker<br />
dedicated to working in indigenous<br />
<strong>com</strong>munities-unfolds with no interviews or<br />
narration. Rather, scenes from daily life<br />
are woven together in rich ethnographic<br />
detail and lingering imagery that explore a<br />
rural <strong>com</strong>munity situated in the shadow of<br />
a highway bridge to the international resort<br />
of Acapulco. Over this bridge pass<br />
thousands of tourists, oblivious to the<br />
village life just below yet worlds apart.<br />
Awards<br />
� Best Feature-Length Documentary,<br />
2011 Morelia Film Festival<br />
� Principal Prize, 2011 International<br />
Documentary Film Festival of Mexico<br />
City<br />
� Best Film (All Categories), 2011<br />
Montreal First Peoples' Festival<br />
Item no. : RW03100842<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 65 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 390.00<br />
THERE'S THERE'S NO NO HOLE HOLE IN IN MMY<br />
M Y<br />
HEAD<br />
HEAD<br />
By Alison Segar<br />
In 2007, aged 54, Abby Hale was<br />
diagnosed with early onset of Alzheimer's.<br />
As a mom and medical practitioner Abby<br />
eloquently shares with grace and insight<br />
what she has both gained and lost as a<br />
result of this harsh and cruel disease. This<br />
film allows us a rare glimpse into a world<br />
that is be<strong>com</strong>ing increasingly <strong>com</strong>mon in<br />
our society, but is rarely discussed in such<br />
an honest and open way.<br />
Item no. : ZS03650837<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 14 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 190.00<br />
AGRICULTURE<br />
MALAWI'S MALAWI'S GREEN<br />
GREEN<br />
REVOLUTION: REVOLUTION: SEEKING<br />
SEEKING<br />
SUSTAINABILITY<br />
SUSTAINABILITY<br />
1998 1998-2015<br />
1998 2015<br />
By Charles Mann, Doug Karr, and Michael<br />
J. Palmer<br />
Responding to recurrent food crises, by<br />
1998 scientists in Malawi had developed<br />
and field-tested new maize varieties and<br />
crop <strong>com</strong>binations that promised Malawi a<br />
Green Revolution. However, with farmers<br />
too poor to purchase seed and fertilizer,<br />
how to empower Malawi's farmers with<br />
this new technology?<br />
The answer came in a dramatic response<br />
to a food crisis in 1998 when donors and<br />
government distributed small Starter<br />
Packs of the new seed, fertilizer, and<br />
nitrogen fixing legumes to all smallholder<br />
farmers in Malawi — 2.8 million<br />
households. Production soared, and by<br />
the end of year 2, Malawi had a large<br />
maize surplus. Judging Starter Pack's<br />
annual $25 million cost unsustainable,<br />
donors forced a change in concept from<br />
spreading the new technology to all<br />
farmers to providing a social safety net:<br />
lower productivity seed and less fertilizer<br />
in the pack, and packs only for Malawi's<br />
neediest. This change placed Malawi's<br />
Green Revolution on hold, and production<br />
fell towards traditional levels, so that by<br />
2005, Malawi again was in desperate food<br />
crisis.<br />
Over the objections of donors, the<br />
Government responded to the crisis by<br />
providing vouchers to all farmers allowing<br />
them to buy at a sharp discount two bags<br />
of fertilizer and improved seed. At a cost of<br />
about $70 million per year, the surge of<br />
improved seed and fertilizer restarted<br />
Malawi's stalled Green Revolution, and the<br />
country again moved into maize surplus.<br />
With the World Bank having judged this a<br />
"smart subsidy", perhaps this approach<br />
will prove sustainable, even though it<br />
overlooks much of the science that<br />
motivated the original Starter Pack<br />
approach.<br />
The film brings to life some central<br />
dilemmas of development policy as<br />
supporters and opponents of Starter Pack<br />
express their views, and as donors press<br />
to reshape the program from a focused<br />
instrument of technological change into an<br />
element of a social safety net, then into<br />
something midway between.<br />
Review<br />
� "I REALLY like the Starter Pack film. It<br />
is thoughtful, balanced, picturesque,<br />
and is truly excellent in showing the<br />
reactions of various stakeholders. It's<br />
a gem." - Walter Falcon, Prof.<br />
Emeritus, Stanford University and<br />
Former Chairman, CIMMYT<br />
Item no. : VB03790830<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 39 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 305.00<br />
RETURN RETURN TO TO THE THE BROUCK BROUCK:<br />
BROUCK :<br />
THE THE THE FENLAND, FENLAND, 40 40 YEAR YEARS YEAR S<br />
ON<br />
By Colette Piault<br />
Forty years after the production of The<br />
Fenland (Le Brouck) <strong>com</strong>es a follow up<br />
about the Audomarois Fenland.<br />
Return to the Brouck (Retour au Brouck)<br />
Set in the natural environment of northern<br />
France, criss-crossed with water ways,<br />
market gardening as well as breeding<br />
remain the only productive activities.<br />
Nevertheless, the number of fenlanders<br />
has seriously diminished from 200 farms<br />
in the 1970 to 40 in 2010. Other elements<br />
are now intervening such as ecology,<br />
preservation and development like the<br />
Natural Regional Park and the Romelaere<br />
Natural Reserve, or leisure activities like<br />
waterfowl hunting, fishing and tourism.<br />
Through images and words Return to the<br />
Brouck expresses this new reality,<br />
confronting the actors of the past - young<br />
fenlanders of the 70s - with the present.<br />
Juxtaposing the images of the past with<br />
those of 2010. The core of the film still<br />
remains, as in the 70s, the vivid problem<br />
of the present and the future of the<br />
Audomarois Fenland and its inhabitants.<br />
Item no. : HU03650831<br />
Format : DVD (Color, Black and<br />
White, French with<br />
English subtitles)<br />
Duration : 55 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 305.00<br />
AGRICULTURE/HO<br />
RTICULTURE<br />
WEED WEED KEY KEY AND AND<br />
AND<br />
IDENTIFICATION IDENTIFICATION SYSTE SYSTEM SYSTE SYSTE M<br />
FOR FOR FOR WEEDS WEEDS OF OF THE<br />
THE<br />
NORTHEAST, NORTHEAST, THE<br />
THE<br />
Criteria based search system and<br />
database for 180 weed species found in<br />
the Northeastern U.S. The database<br />
supplies textual and graphics information<br />
on all species. The program was<br />
developed to facilitate the user's ability to<br />
identify weeds with a minimum amount of<br />
data and taxonomic experience. Much<br />
easier to use than traditional dichotomous<br />
keys.<br />
Item no. : YN07860446<br />
Format : DVD<br />
Price : USD 140.00<br />
AMERICAN<br />
STUDIES<br />
CHASING CHASING WATER WATER<br />
WATER<br />
Directed by Pete McBride<br />
Breathtaking photography tells the story of<br />
the Colorado River, which flowed to the<br />
sea for 6 million years and now dries up 90<br />
miles short of the Sea of Cortez.<br />
After spending a decade working abroad<br />
as a photojournalist, Colorado native Pete<br />
McBride, decided to focus on something<br />
closer to his home and his heart: the<br />
Colorado River which cuts through his<br />
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