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Docuseek is honored to announce The Anand Patwardhan Collection, the first time ever his full filmography has been made available for academic streaming. For mo...re than four decades, Patwardhan has been India’s leading documentary filmmaker, tracking the country’s unraveling from its pluralist post-Partition ideals to a Hindu hegemony. Join Docuseek on April 29, 2021 at 7:30PM ET for a virtual panel with Anand Patwardhan, Dipti Gupta (Concordia University; Dawson College), James Laine (Macalester College), Jyotsna Kapur (Southern Illinois University) and Ali Kazimi (York University) to learn about the significance of Patwardhan's work spanning 40 years and the state of cultural resistance in India. More information to follow. Save the date! #docuseek #docuseek2 #AnandPatwardhan #documentaryfilm #documentarian #collectiondevelopment #librarymedia #academicstreaming #india #IndianDemocracy

In anticipation of #EarthDay, Bullfrog Films is offering a 50% DVD purchase discount on select documentary releases from our catalog. These DVDs include public performance rights for academic and community screening use. Use coupon code "Earth50" during checkout on our website or when placing your order by phone in order to receive this discount offer. In addition to the Environmental Justice films discussed in our latest email announcement, we will also be sending additional... blasts highlighting the other eight films included in this Earth Day offer. Visit our website and be sure to sign up for our mailing list so as not to miss them. #earthday2021 #environmentalfilm #envirodocs #environmentaljustice #environmentalhistory #environmentalactivist #environmentalracism #wildlifeconservation #agriculture #indigenousrights #energydevelopment #bullfrogfilms #librarymedia #collectiondevelopment

We've curated a special collection of 28 films - both docs and feature films > https://www.ovid.tv/intl-womens-day < - to celebrate WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. Check them out!

Coming soon from Bullfrog FIlms, the latest documentary by David Abel and Andy Laub! ENTANGLED A film by David Abel and Andy Laub... Available for educational use: www.bullfrogfilms.com/newreleases.html There are now estimated to be about 350 right whales, making them among the planet’s most endangered species. NOAA officials say the population can’t sustain more than a single premature death a year. At the current rate of decline, scientists say the whales could go extinct within 20 years. The main threat to their survival, scientists say: millions of lobster lines that stretch from New England up through Atlantic Canada, standard gear for North America’s most valuable fishery. Exacerbating that threat is climate change, which has sparked a collapse in the whale’s food supply in the warming waters of the Gulf of Maine, forcing them to search for food in areas where they had rarely been seen before. As a result, their population has been plummeting. Now, under pressure from lawsuits by environmental advocates to reduce right whale deaths, the federal government has been considering controversial regulations that pit the region’s politically powerful lobstermen against scientists and environmental advocates trying to save the whales. The proposed regulations, which could reduce lobster lines by half in much of the Gulf of Maine and harm the livelihoods of many lobstermen, has sparked a political backlash. The future of the iconic species hangs in the balance.

CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?, a documentary by Twelve Letter Films, is now available with public performance rights from Bullfrog Films and Docuseek2. Small-town activism. Nail-biting elections. A last-minute power grab. In Wisconsin, where extreme partisanship has become the norm, voters are finding their lives increasingly irrelevant to state lawmakers. Through the stories of four tireless women fighting to have their voices heard, CAN YOU HEAR US NOW? unravels how Wisconsin has be...come a modelor cautionary taleof shifting electoral policies and unaccountable government. Read more about the film in our new release announcement, and visit our online catalog to order the film or request a preview for purchase evaluation. #documentary #canyouhearusnow #americanstudies #legalstudies #politicalscience #governmentpolicy #statelaw #electionlaw #votingrights #voterrights #gerrymandering #wisconsin #disenfranchisement #localelections #womeninpolitics #bullfrogfilms

"Disasters reveal layers of societal inequalitiesIn taking a deeper analysis of the Chicago heatwave of 1995, it is made clear how root causes of vulnerabilities such as systemic racism play a central and significant role in disaster impacts. The interviews and powerful accounts of many individuals in the film are examples to show the real causes of these disproportionate impacts on certain groups of people. Read Emmanuel Raju's review of the Bullfrog release Cooked: Surviv...al by Zip Code for the blog of international journal Public Anthropologist: https://publicanthropologist.cmi.no//05/no-natural-disast/ COOKED is available with public performance rights for academic use and community screenings. www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/cook.html

Also available for community screenings and educational purchase or rental with public performance rights: www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/tj.html

WHILE WE WAIT for election results this evening, here are some seriously awesome #inspirational quotes & #wisewords from #refugees & other immigrants voting for... the first time to get you through the next few hours! You're welcome! Article from last week in Washington Post: https://tinyurl.com/y4xs5kmp Excerpt: Ahmed A.J. Mikhlif is 42 and he’s voting for the first time in his life next week. Because back in Iraq, where civil unrest and corrupt regimes roil the government, voting was always voting. Here, you vote for two people or maybe three people, Mikhlif said. In Iraq, there was one person. It wasn’t voting. You like or you dislike that person. And that was all. Mikhlif and his wife became U.S. citizens in December, and they are joining the swelling population of naturalized citizens who are eligible voters. Their numbers have nearly doubled in the past 20 years, according to the Pew Research Center and they range from translators to busboys, physical education teachers to doctors. They also include Dame Helen Mirren, who recently became a U.S. citizen and cast her ballot in the dusty town of Minden, Nev., and comic Jimmy O. Yang, whose shtick on his immigrant parents has endeared him to generations of kids both mortified and proud of their parents’ accents and quirks. And they include Maha al-Obaidi. It took 66 years for her to feel like she was part of her own government. In Iraq, she said, no one knew if elections were fair. Then two of her sons and husband were kidnapped and the family had to pay exorbitant ransoms. They had to flee. Today, she is in Astoria, Queens, voting as an American. Now, I feel this is my country, this is it. I have my roots here now, she said. She is hoping her vote can help change the U.S. policy President Trump’s travel ban that is keeping two of her sons trapped in Jordan. Saba Barkneh’s first vote as an American couldn’t have been more, well, American. It was a drive-through, she said. It was easy. Done in 10 minutes. And I got a sticker. Nothing like what her relatives back in Ethiopia endure at the polls including an effort just to travel to them. I’m learning from my family members that voting is a struggle there, said Barkneh, 45, a marathoner and a registered dietitian at Goodwin House in Alexandria, a senior-living facility that has a program helping new immigrants become naturalized citizens. Being able to reach the voting sites, people thinking, ‘My vote is not counting.’ . . . People don’t feel like their vote is making a difference. These first-time voters bring with them an appreciation for American democracy, the ideals they’ve been worshiping from afar for years. And they have the fire and urgency to keep this shining city upon a hill bright, especially as they see the darkness of this year’s election. Mikhlif, who worked as a translator for the United States military in #iraq for eight years, was stunned to see the anti-immigrant and anti- #muslim sentiment when he, his wife and their children arrived in Charlottesville. He works with other #immigrants through the International Neighbors program there and is hoping to cast a ballot on Tuesday that will make some difference in not only policies toward immigrants, but also attitudes. America was built on the shoulders of immigrants, he said. The division and strife in America today have been shocking for the family of Diana Mateo, who immigrated from Guatemala when she was 9. AD That ideal they had in mind is tarnished, said the 25-year-old paralegal in D.C. Andrew Martin never voted when he lived in his native South Africa, which he left when he was 25. I am now 39. One thing that inspired me to vote here is the idea that my vote may actually count, said Martin, who left his native country as it was still reckoning with perilous inequities despite the end of apartheid. In South Africa, I never felt that way. He arrived in America in 2007 as a wide-eyed young immigrant who was hopeful that he stepped right into the ‘American Dream.’ What I’ve seen since 2016 is not only embarrassing, it’s sad, often scary, and frankly extremely depressing, he said, of the rise of intolerance, racism and failure to address climate change. I know I am fortunate. I’m a White man who speaks English, he said. But I am completely turned off when people mention the ‘American Dream.’ This America is no dream this is what people come to America to escape. This election reminds first-time voter Peter Edwards, 49, of unsettling times in Jamaica during his childhood. Given the current political climate and a father of two mixed-race children, I think it is even more important to demonstrate my commitment to decency, belief in environmental conservation and the need to address climate change along with social justice issues, said the economist and marine scientist who lives and works in the D.C. area. As a young boy in 1980 I witnessed how divisive and violent politics were in Jamaica as we were caught up in the proxy Cold War period. I remember my parents leaving the house to go and vote and warning us not to open the door until they returned. It was a scary time and unfortunately what I am witnessing here today brings back some of those memories. Grace Nkechi Okoro is urgent in her mission to get other Americans to understand the danger the nation is facing. Americans should be on guard, said Okoro, 45, who lived in Cameroon and Nigeria before coming to the #unitedstates to study in D.C. more than 20 years ago. When you have something very good, as good as Americans have it, they have to learn to fight to keep it and protect it, just like anything that is bequeathed to you. The arguments about voter suppression, the court hearings about mail-in ballots and the confusion in this election worry her. They’re too familiar. They are reminiscent of a corrupt regime, she said. So it was with a deliberate urgency that Okoro completed her citizenship process and took her daughter with her to vote in their new hometown of Frisco, Tex. Some of us who are immigrants, we’ve come from a place where things are much worse, she said. And we know how important this next week is. #GreaterAs1 #refugeeswelcome #unity #solidarity #WithRefugees #immigrantsmakeamericagreat #BuffaloWelcomesRefugees Journey's End

"Manufacturers of a wide range of products have made it increasingly difficult over the years to repair things, for instance by limiting availability of parts or by putting prohibitions on who gets to tinker with them. It affects not only game consoles or farm equipment, but cellphones, military gear, refrigerators, automobiles and even hospital ventilators, the lifesaving devices that have proven crucial this year in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, a movement known as '...right to repair' is starting to make progress in pushing for laws that prohibit restrictions like these." The #righttorepair movement and the inclusion of planned obsolescence in the design of modern electronics, including smart phones, are explored in the Bullfrog release Death by Design, a globetrotting investigation into the underbelly of the international electronics industry that reveals how even the tiniest devices have deadly environmental and public health costs. www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/dbd.html Available with public performance rights for educational use and community screenings.

Need some extra inspiration this Election Day? Laverne, Steve, and Claire are at it again (with even more of their friends) preparing to #ProtectTheVote on the... ground tomorrow for voters in North Carolina. If you have trouble at the polls, DON'T GIVE UP - call 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683) for help (operated by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law) #Vote2020

Thrilled to see Rotten Tomatoes highlight 5 indigenous horror movies to watch. #TraceyMoffatt's BEDEVIL "is a trilogy of ghost stories that follows characters h...aving real, remembered, and imagined visions." editorial.rottentomatoes.com//groundbreaking-indigenous-h/ Stream her work: ovid.tv/tracey-moffatt-1

Announcing the release of photographer Pete McBride's documentary INTO THE CANYON, now available with public performance rights from Bullfrog Films. Filmmaker/photographer Pete McBride and writer Kevin Fedarko set out on a 750-mile journey on foot through the entire length of the Grand Canyon. From the outset, the challenge was far more than they bargained for.But their quest was more than just an endurance testit was also a way to draw attention to the unprecedented threats... facing one of our most revered natural landscapes. Visit our online catalog to learn more about the film and place a DVD purchase or rental order. Academic streaming can be licensed from Docuseek2. Pete McBride Photography #petemcbride #photojournalism #grandcanyon #conservation #nationalparks #publiclands

"Statistics, as a lens through which scientists investigate real-world questions, has always been smudged by the fingerprints of the people holding the lens. Statistical thinking and eugenicist thinking are, in fact, deeply intertwined, and many of the theoretical problems with methods like significance testingfirst developed to identify racial differencesare remnants of their original purpose, to support eugenics." The Bullfrog release A Dangerous Idea explores the pseudo-...scientific roots of the eugenics movement, its spread and influence on genetics, social policy and political ideology, and it's resurgence in the 21st century. www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/dang.html A DANGEROUS IDEA is available with public performance rights for school and library use from Bullfrog and Docuseek2, and can be booked for in-person or virtual group screenings through Bullfrog Communities.

Read an GirlTalkHQ interview w/ filmmaker Lorna Tucker, director of the documentary AMÁ. The film is now streaming on OVID and can be purchased or licensed for educational use and virtual screenings from Bullfrog Films. www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/ama.html The result of nine years painstaking and sensitive work by filmmaker Lorna Tucker, Amá tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the Indian Health Service US Government during the 1960s and 70s. The film features the testimony of many Native Americans, including three remarkable women who tell their stories Jean Whitehorse, Yvonne Swan, and Charon Asetoyer.

Screen Fatigue! Join us for this live Webcast/Podcast (in case you need to close your eyes! Thursday at 4PM Register at bit.ly/ScreenFatigue

"Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed" (ovid.tv/videos/chisholm-72-unbought-unbossed) and "A Perfect Candidate" (ovid.tv/videos/a-perfect-candidate) are listed b...y the The New York Times as "8 Political Campaign Documentaries Worth Streaming": nytimes.com/article/election-political-documentaries.html Stream them on OVID! First Run Features Women Make Movies

"A treaty aimed at destroying all nuclear weapons and forever prohibiting their use has hit an important benchmark, with Honduras becoming the 50th country to ratify the accord the minimum needed for it to enter into force as international law. The United Nations announced late Saturday that the ratification threshold had been achieved, a little more than three years after the treaty was completed in negotiations at the organization’s New York headquarters." The Internation...al Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was instrumental in the creation of the Treaty, and their work was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. Setsuko Thurlow, a passionate campaigner for the abolition of nuclear weapons and a survivor of Hiroshima, is the subject of the Bullfrog release The Vow From Hiroshima, available now for school and library collections as well as community screenings. www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/vow.html

Check out this conversation this Friday about Border South, filmmaking, anthropology and the politics of border crossing with Raúl O. Paz Pastrana, Alejandra Ti...noco Bonilla, and Leva Jusionyte at BARS! You'll have to sign up through zoom here: https://brandeis.zoom.us//tJMkce6tpzIiG9LBzoODj0Ye1LnoM4kc

Now streaming on OVID. What are you watching this weekend?