Fall brings an important new film on the healthcare battle, the latest African American Perspectives catalog, and more ways to screen Newsreel films
Money-Driven Medicine to Be Featured
on Bill Moyers Aug. 28
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Our newest release, Money-Driven Medicine is the important and explosive new film exploring the medical-industrial complex and the consequent high cost and poor quality of America's health care system. Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room), the film was featured on ABC Nightline (see the piece here). Bill Moyers’ Journal will feature excerpts from the film this Friday, August 28 (check local listings). Order your DVD of the film Bill Moyers calls, “one of the strongest documentaries I have seen in years. It couldn’t be timelier.” |
New African American Perspectives Catalog
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Our latest collection of titles on African American history, culture and social movements is now available electronically and in print. The catalog features our new title, HERSKOVITS AT THE HEART OF BLACKNESS, a compelling film that examines race, representation and scholarship through the life of the renowned and controversial Africanist anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits. |
Library of African Cinema Titles Now $24.95
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The largest collection of African films in North America is now available at the greatly reduced rate of $24.95 per DVD. This special offer from the Library of African Cinema is generating lots of excitement. Read an article on the collection here. |
Don’t Miss the Rebroadcast of UNNATURAL CAUSES
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PBS will rebroadcast the series on four Fridays at 10 PM beginning October 9, 2009. However, local PBS stations are free to run it when they wish. Contact Program or Viewer Services at your local PBS station and ask them if they will schedule the series at the PBS national feed or another time. For a station directory, visit mediaengage.org |
In the News
Select Titles Now Available on Amazon’s Video On Demand
Select titles from the African American Perspectives collection and the Library of African Cinema are now available on Amazon.com’s Video On Demand. This means that students are no longer limited to the DVDs in the media center; professors can now instantly preview a film before making a purchase; and friends and family can have a copy for their personal use. Titles purchased through Amazon are only for home use. Newsreel continues to offer comprehensive institutional prices and licensing.
- For a list of available titles go to newsreel.org/amazon
- Not sure how it works? Visit the Amazon Video On Demand FAQ
- To find out if institutional rates or licensing apply, please see California Newsreel’s Pricing & Policies
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TRACES OF THE TRADE in the News
Congratulations to producer Katrina Browne and her team for receiving an Emmy nomination in the category of "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research" by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Read Katrina’s interview on Obama's historic trip to the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana from CNN.com
REVOLUTION ‘67 Study Guide Available
The producers of Revolution ‘67, a powerful expose on the explosive urban rebellion in Newark, New Jersey in July 1967, have just released a comprehensive study guide for use in Social Studies, Civics, US History and Economics courses. REVOLUTION ’67 also won the 2009 John O’Connor Award from the American Historical Association.
UNNATURAL CAUSES continues to post new support tools, backgrounders and handouts on its recently remodeled companion web site: unnaturalcauses.org
Newsreel Announcements
CURRENT CATALOGS
Upcoming Academic Conferences / Screenings
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Cincinnati, OH, Sept 30 - Oct 4
Screening: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: JUMP AT THE SUN, TULIA, TEXAS, HERSKOVITS AT THE HEART OF BLACKNESS, and SCARRED JUSTICE: THE ORANGEBURG MASSACRE
Women Mobilizing for Change: Past, Present and Future
Hosted by the Florida Consortium for Women’s and Gender Studies
Tampa, FL, October 2-4
Screening: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: JUMP AT THE SUN, MADE IN L.A.
American Folklore Society
Boise, Idaho, October 21-25
Screening: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: JUMP AT THE SUN on Oct 22
Association for Humanist Sociology
New Orleans, LA, November 12-15
Screening: FAUBOURG TREME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANS on Nov 12 at 2:15 PM (with producer)
Social Studies History Association
Long Beach, CA, November 12-15, 2009
Screening: MADE IN L.A. on November 13 at 4:30 PM; TULIA, TEXAS on November 15 at 10:15 AM
National Women's Studies Association
Atlanta, GA, November 12-15, 2009
Screening: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: JUMP AT THE SUN Nov. 14 1:15 PM, MADE IN L.A. Nov. 14 11:15 AM (with producer)
African Studies Association
New Orleans, LA, November 19-22
Screening: HERSKOVITS AT THE HEART OF BLACKNESS (with producer)
National Council of Teachers of English
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 19-22
Screening: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: JUMP AT THE SUN
American Anthropological Association
Philadelphia, PA, December 2 - 6
Screening: HERSKOVITS AT THE HEART OF BLACKNESS Dec 2, 8PM; ZORA NEALE HURSTON: JUMP AT THE SUN 8PM; END OF THE RAINBOW Dec 4, 4:45PM
Modern Language Association
Philadelphia, PA, Dec 27-30
Screening: ZORA NEALE HURSTON: JUMP AT THE SUN Dec 28 5:15 PM
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