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Collective Eye is an educational film distribution company which represents compelling films that build bridges between cultures and provide unique perspectives by exploring the untold stories of our time.
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New DVD: The Greenhorns
Monoculture, monopoly, cheap food and poor diets—these are the consequences of an agricultural system gone awry, driven by policy and corporate control. Here we are, unhealthy.
The Greenhorns takes us around the country meeting the future of American agriculture: a passionate set of new entrepreneurs, rural and urban revivers and stubborn optimists. We learn about why these young people have chosen agriculture as a venue for direct action, the obstacles they face gaining access to land, to training, to startup capital, and the transformative potential of local food, healthy farming, and bravely building the new economy.
New DVD: Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon
Clear Cut is the story of the rural Oregon logging town of Philomath, where every high school graduate has their college tuition paid thanks to the generosity of local lumber baron Rex Clemens. But when a new schools Superintendent arrives from Chicago, the administrators of the scholarship become concerned over the increasingly "liberal" direction of the schools. The conflict between the old-time loggers and the "urban immigrants" escalates dramatically, and the scholarship administrators deliver an ultimatum: either the superintendent leaves, or the scholarship is withdrawn, leaving the town's children without money for college.
New DVD: Future of Hope
Future of Hope brings a unique insight into the positive side of the nation of Iceland. How are Icelanders adopting sustainable practices to grow and develop post financial crisis? How to protect and preserve Europe’s largest area of unspoilt nature to offer and enable Iceland to grow once more, but this time with sustainability at the core as an example to the rest of the world of what can be achieved. Future of Hope focuses on sustainable developments in organic farming, business, innovation, renewable energy and the environment — and is filled with positivity and emotion as we are taken on a story of struggle, determination and most importantly... hope. Now available in NTSC.
New DVD: Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Working backwards through history, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo explores the mystery of the development of Japan’s love affair with bugs. Using insects like an anthropologist’s toolkit, the film uncovers Japanese philosophies that will shift Westerners’ perspectives on nature, beauty, life, and even the seemingly mundane realities of their day-to-day routines.
It opens in modern-day Tokyo where a single beetle recently sold for $90,000 then slips back to the early 1800s, to the first cricket-selling business and the development of haiku and other forms of insect literature and art. Through history and adventure, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo travels all the way back in time to stories of the fabled first emperor who named Japan the "Isle of the Dragonflies."
New DVD: Carbon Nation
Carbon Nation is an optimistic, solutions-based, non-partisan, big tent film that shows tackling climate change boosts the economy, increases national & energy security and promotes health & a clean environment. It is a optimistic discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing and what the world needs to do to prevent (or slow down) the impending climate crisis.
New DVD: The Witches of Gambaga
The Witches of Gambaga is the extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. Painful experience and insight come together to create an intimate portrait of the lives of women ostracized by their communities.
This disturbing expose is the product of a collaboration between members of the 100 strong community of ‘witches’ and women’s movement activists determined to end abusive practices and improve women’s lives. Told largely by the women themselves, their incredible stories and struggles are conveyed to a wide range of audiences by the director’s narration.
New DVD: Cultures of Resistance
The Cultures of Resistance feature documentary is a production of Caipirinha Productions. Directed by Iara Lee, the film highlights the work of artists, musicians, and dancers throughout the world who are working for peace and justice, and re-conceiving resistance as a fundamentally creative act.
New DVD: Ingredients
Rich with information and inspiring, INGREDIENTS tells the story of America's local food movement and the chefs, farmers and activists who are revitalizing our broken food system. From innovative farm-to-table programs in New York to picturesque sheep farms in Oregon, INGREDIENTS gets to the roots of an alternative food system - healthy and sustainable.
New DVD: The Red Tail
Globalization promised to expand the economic pie and increase the purchasing power of consumers. Instead of spreading wealth, globalization is concentrating wealth as jobs are outsourced and salaries inflated for corporate executives. The Red Tail is the story of a Minnesotan airline mechanic who loses his job to outsourcing and then travels to Asia to meet his replacement workers. Roy Koch, along with 4,400 airline mechanics, custodians, and cleaners, went on strike against Northwest Airlines, the fourth largest airline in the world. Northwest ("The Red Tail"), wanted to lay off 53% of their union and outsource their jobs. After a 444-day strike, 4,000 union members were out of work, including Roy. The result is a unique intimate portrayal of a union family being battered by the global system, and bringing first hand insights into the effects of the larger economic picture.
New DVD: Food Matters
Food Matters is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health. Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies. The film sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide 'Sickness Industry' and exposes a growing body of scientific evidence proving that nutritional therapy can be more effective, more economical, less harmful and less invasive than most conventional medical treatments. 'Food Matters' features interviews with leading medical experts from around the world who discuss natural approaches to preventing and reversing Cancer, Obesity, Heart Disease, Depression, Mental Illness and many other chronic conditions. Find out what works, what doesn't and what's killing you. Becoming informed about the choices you have for you and your family's health could save your life.
New DVD: Girls on the Wall: The True Story of a Lockdown Musical
The teenage girls of Warrenville Prison are getting a shot at redemption in a most unlikely form: a musical based on their lives. As three fascinating inmates write and stage their play, they're compelled to re-live their crimes, reclaim their humanity and take a first step toward breaking free of the prison system. Given unprecedented access to this juvenile correctional facility by the State of Illinois, the powerful characters of Girls on the Wall will surprise you with their candor, intimacy, and unexpected sense of humor.
New DVD:Vietnam: The Next Generation
Over three decades after the "American" War optimism runs high in Vietnam. Peace has brought prosperity and a cocky self confidences. The eight young Vietnamese featured in Vietnam: The Next Generation, represent the modern face of Vietnam. They come from all walks of life-from all parts of the county- but together they embody the hopes and dreams and frustrations of this new Vietnam.
New DVD: Vietnam Passage: Journeys From War to Peace
For Americans the Vietnam War ended in 1975. But what about the Vietnamese? Six individuals whose livers during and after the "American War" took dramatically different paths, recount their stories. This one hour documentary brings the last 25 years in Vietnam alive through the perspective of seven individuals whose lives, once defined by war, now personalize the struggle of a country entering the new millennium at peace. With PBS teaching guide.
New DVD: Awara Soup (Le Bouillon d'Awara)
A very fresh approach to the questions of identity, immigration, and integration... The mixing of cultures in French Guiana through the cooking of... a magic dish. The awara soup is a kind of stew containing all sorts of ingredients from French Guiana. People say that if someone eats that dish on Easter, he's sure never to leave Guiana. Using the cooking of this dish as starting point, the film explores the multicultural reality composing this French overseas region. Americian Indians,Europeans, Slave descendents, Laotians, Chinese, Brazilians, Surinamese, tell us how they're bringing new flavours to the Guianese stew of identities.
New DVD: Left by the Ship
Robert, Jr, Charlene and Margarita are Amerasians: the sons and daughters of Filipina sex workers and American servicemen stationed at the Subic Bay Naval Base, once the largest US Naval Base outside mainland USA. When the Base closed in 1992, thousands of Amerasian children were left behind. Unlike Amerasian children from other countries, Filipino Amerasians were never recognized by the US government. Over the course of two years, we followed the lives of our four Amerasians, as they struggle with discrimination, family problems and identity related issues, trying to overcome a past they are in no way responsible for.
New DVD: Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm is the first film to consider the work of the renegade 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch. Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers created a body of deeply subversive multidisciplinary work that questioned the boundaries of architecture and everything else in the process. Incorporating breathtaking archival video, new footage shot over ten years and animation based on zany period sketches, this film is about the joy of creation in a time when there were no limits.
New DVD: Songs and Tears of Nature
Shot in Lapland and Brazil, Songs and Tears of Nature is about Man's relationship with Nature. We listen to the oral culture of the Saamis from the Arctic and Fulni-ôs from Brazil, then beyond ice fields, beyond trees, climates, skins, we discover the same idea: to preserve environment, we first need to preserve the diversity of culture, of language. An astonishing message of peace, dialogue and understanding.
New DVD: Women's Power
Women's Power in Global Perspective offers a panoramic view of female leadership, creativity, wisdom, and courage, around the world and over thousands of years. This acclaimed movie looks at female spheres of power in politics, economics, religion, medicine, arts and letters, featuring a rich tapestry of women famous and anonymous, ancient and modern. These are the bold and creative women you always knew existed, who were kept out of the history books and off the TV screens. A movie for anyone who has ever wondered where the women were—seeing it will change how you think about female humanity.
New DVD: Peace Commandos
In what is often referred to as Africa's first 'world war', millions have died in the last decade in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Despite this horrific loss of life, it is currently one of the most under-reported humanitarian crises in the world. Peace Commandos profiles the work of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), an innovative organization working to transform conflict in Congolese society through interactive street theater and explores the idea that a subtle disarmament must take place in order for lasting peace to emerge in a society fractured by decades of conflict.
New DVD: Life and Debt
Jamaica, a land of sea, sand and sun... and a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries. With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid, adapted form her non-fiction book "A Small Place," Life and Debt is an unapolgetic look at the "new world order" from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials, who see the reality of globalization from the ground up.
New DVD: Sons of Perdition
Sons of Perdition follows three teenage boys after they escape from the powerful FLDS polygamist sect and must fend for themselves in mainstream America.
New DVD: This Way of Life
Peter and Colleen Karena live with their six kids and 50 horses in the almost wild freedom of New Zealand's isolated mountains, until Peter's escalating battle with his own father has profound consequences. Filmed over the course of four years, Canadian cinematographer Tom Burstyn's rigorously beautiful documentary This Way of Life captures the Karena's precipitous existence with equal parts glorious abandon and painful suspense.
New DVD: Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us?
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? is a profound, alternative look at the global bee crisis from Taggart Siegel, director of The Real Dirt on Farmer John. Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, this engaging and ultimately uplifting film weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world including Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk and Vandana Shiva. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature.
More info, screenings and how to get involved at queenofthesun.com.
The Real Dirt On Farmer John Educational Edition available now!
The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer, this story heralds a resurrection of farming in America. The educational DVD features a new 59 min. classroom version AND the full 83 min. version. It is subtitled in French, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish and is Closed Captioned and SDH for the hearing impaired. Enjoy other short films by Taggart Siegel, bonus footage and more with the DVD's special features!
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