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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seeing Red Cars is a full-length Star Thrower program that encourages audiences to focus on what they DO want instead of focusing on what they dont! By having a positive attitude and taking action, viewers will be motivated to move in the right direction for themselves and for their organization. Hosted by Laura Goodrich, trainer and consultant, this unique and engaging program helps audiences make better decisions, combat negativity, and create...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
This new training program teaches what a powerful force having a vision of possibilities can be for you. Do you have a vision for your organization? More importantly, do you have one for yourself? One that gets you excited every morning and keeps you open to possibilities. In this new video, Celebrate What's Right With The World(TM), Dewitt Jones asks do we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe they're there? He assures us that we will...
3) The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know: Episode 19,How We Know Dark Matter Exists
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Dark matter is the conjectured substance that outweighs ordinary matter by five to one. However, we can't see it, nor can anyone say what it is -- at least, not yet. The first clues to the existence of dark matter was in observations of stars and galaxies in the 1930s. Since then, the evidence has mounted. Consider alternative explanations and reasons to believe that dark matter is indeed real.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Paris is heating up for Fall 2014! The design duo at Viktor and Rolf elevate knitwear to a new, luxe level. Take a look back in the Videofashion Vault, then see what new designer, Fausto Puglisi, has in store at Emanuel Ungaro! We catch up with German runway star, Kati Nescher, plus, it's an ultra-glamorous, red-carpet worthy runway at Elie Saab!
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This program focus’s on editing and how this process helps tell the story in a motion picture. The editing process follows some simple steps: takes the raw footage from the camera after it is developed, select the shots and combines them into sequences which will themselves be combined to create an entire motion picture. Completing these steps sounds easy enough, but in reality, editing a film extends beyond arranging shots into a completed project....
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
What’s it like to dedicate your life to work that won’t be completed in your lifetime? Fifteen years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused on four projects and the people behind them in an effort to answer this universal question. The subjects are Jill Tarter, Director of the SETI Institute, who has been involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence since the 1970s and who was the basis for the Ellie Arroway character in Carl Sagan’s...
7) Making Space
Publisher
Checkerboard Film Foundation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For the first time in history, women are creating some of the most exciting architectural designs in the world. How have they navigated their way to the top? What is the nature of their creative process? Are there gender differences in architectural design? Making Space is a 1-hour documentary film about five dynamic and accomplished female architects–all rising stars in what has been an all-male galaxy–: Annabelle Selldorf (New York), Marianne...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Rock Star, Artist, writer Reg Mombassa has influenced Australian culture for thirty years. From Mental As Anything to Mambo he's made two generations of people laugh, dance and wonder at the beauty of his creations. GOLDEN SANDALS is a journey into the world of Reg with his aliens, animals and Australian Jesus. It's an animated trip to the roots of what makes Reg tick. When you put on a pair of golden sandals the cares and worries of a fractious world...
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文
Description
One day, a Lord of the Rings-obsessed Chinese real estate investor met a little person on the train. This downtrodden man’s openness about his trouble finding a job inspired the businessman to try and help: he created an amusement park where people with dwarfism could live and earn money performing. Though the park has attracted negative attention from groups like Little People of America, DWARVES KINGDOM attempts to capture what the park means...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Darryl Roberts goes on a five year journey to examine America’s growing obsession with physical beauty and perfection, unearthing its origins and deadly risks.. In America the Beautiful we see how increasingly unattainable images contribute to the rise in low self-esteem, body dismorphia, and eating disorders for young women and girls who also happen to be the beauty industry's largest consumers.. In almost 40,000 media messages a year,...
11) Periodical
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
In our era of social media-empowered feminism, after centuries of societal-enforced stigma, menstruation has finally begun to bleed out into the mainstream. We’re finally using red liquid instead of blue in period product ads, seeing beauty influencers use their period blood for facials on social media, and even the most daring period scenes are being depicted on tv — but we still know alarmingly little when it comes to menstruation. And we still...
12) All by Myself
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
"I don't know why the gods chose me to be in this business but there must have been a reason and I'm still enjoying it so tremendously,” says Eartha Kitt in this intimate and eye-opening portrait. Filmed in 1982 at the singer’s remote home and multiple live performances, ALL BY MYSELF: THE EARTHA KITT STORY is a deeply moving and personal account of the iconic star’s life and career. Known worldwide for her raspy, sultry voice and theatrical...
13) Joy ride
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A charming series of short documentaries that take you to the heart of Australian outback life. Biggest Banana: One of the most important days of year for Tweed Valley Banana growers is Murwillumbah’s King Banana competition. After the weigh in and judging the King Banana Proclamation is read out aloud and the winners including the Queen Banana are announced. A Ringers life: Boys as young as 15 and 16 leave home to become ringers out on the backblocks...
15) Soul
Publisher
Disney/Pixar
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A feature film about soccer dreams weighs the pros and cons of pursuing ambitions abroad or acceptance of life on the isolated islands of Cape Verde. Fintar O Destino has the distinction of being the Library of African Cinema's first sports film - but a sports film with a decidedly African twist. It is the story, familiar from countless Hollywood movies and therefore easily accessible to American audiences, of an over the hill sports hero who holds...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
This film, the first from the Central African Republic, takes us inside the world of the 'pygmies' or more properly BaAka. Le silence de la forêt is a film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
The fable of an old African king and his wayward daughter is updated to present day Brussels to make provocative points about racism, tradition, class struggle, cultural identity and corruption. More than a decade ago Mweze Ngangura delighted the cinema world with one of the most accessible and entertaining African films ever made, La vie est belle, the rags to riches story of a Congolese musician played by soukous super star Papa Wemba. Now he returns...
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In a riveting course designed to give non-scientists the matchless experience of scientific discovery and deep understanding, The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know takes you through the most remarkable insights of contemporary physics, showing why physicists believe what they do."--The Great Courses.
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