Dr. Breeding explains what the anti-psychiatry movement is and the ideals that drive the movement.
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Mental Health Liberation and Anti-Psychiatry Movement Part 1
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Beauty Mark: Body Image and the Race for Perfection (Educational Edition)- Trailer
This Media Education Foundation production gives an intimate look at the fear that drove one woman’s anorexia and exercise bulimia.
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
This video is a Media Education Foundation production based on the feminist psychology classic Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher, Ph.D. Reviving Ophelia focuses on the mental health of young women and the factors that influence their development.
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The Female Body & The Psychology of Eating Disorders :: Part 1
Professor John Breeding, Psychology Ph.D. contextualizes eating disorders within societies in which 1.) unhealthy and unrealistic expectations are placed on women and 2.) few people know what is healthy or natural in regard to eating.
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The Female Body & The Psychology of Eating Disorders :: Part 2
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Mood Disorders Across Women’s Lifecycle
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Documentary Filmmaker Havana Marking, Director of Afghan Star
Paradigm Shift’s Community Outreach Coordinator Julia K. Weis here interviews Havana Marking, director of the awe-inspiring documentary Afghan Star, which explores the impact of Afghanistan’s version of Pop Idol on the varying factions within Afghan culture and the influence of musical self-expression within a society restricted by religious extremism.
Afghan Star had its New York Premiere at the International Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in New York. The documentary was released by Zeitgeist Films and represented by Shotwell Media.
View the trailer on PShift TV here.
PShift: What prompted you to develop the film Afghan Star? What’s your relationship to the show and/or Afghanistan?
HM: I had always wanted to go / explore Afghanistan – all my life. My father had been there in the 60s and the images from that era were just epic. I tried to pitch lots of ideas – just to get there. Luckily none of them were commissioned, but in the process I talked to a British war journalist, Rachel Reid (now the brilliant Human Rights Watch officer there). She in fact told me about the new TV series Afghan Star and put me in touch with the Local channel owners.
I knew instantly that it was a genius idea – I have always loved Pop Idol (I always cry!) – and knew it would be the perfect vehicle and way in to such a complex and extraordinary place.
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“The Sari Soldiers” Documentary Screening and Discussion with Julie Bridgham, Filmmaker
Paradigm Shift: NYC’s Feminist Community Proudly Presents:
“The Sari Soldiers” Documentary Screening
and Discussion with Julie Bridgham, Filmmaker
a portion of proceeds donated to
The Sari Soldiers’ Outreach Fund at Women Make Movies
“Captures ordinary women’s extraordinary lives and reveals them as
important pieces of history. Anyone concerned with social justice,
gender justice and human rights should see it.”
– Rama Lohani-Chase, Women’s and Gender Studies Dept., The College of New Jersey
“It gives new meaning to the words courage and resilience.”
– Stephen Holden, The New York Times
SEE TRAILER ON PARADIGM SHIFT TV
When: Wed, July 22nd
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: In the heart of the Feminist District
People Lounge, 163 Allen Street, NYC
(Between Stanton and Rivington, F or V Train to 2nd Ave)
HopStop.com Directions
Cost: $10 at door (discounted summer rate!)
BONUS: RAFFLE of Paradigm Shift Free Pass granting recipient free
admission for one year!!
SYNOPSIS:
http://www.sarisoldiers.com
Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in
Nepal’s modern history, THE SARI SOLDIERS is an extraordinary story of
six women’s courageous efforts to shape Nepal’s future in the midst of
an escalating civil war against Maoist insurgents, and the King’s
crackdown on civil liberties.
When Devi, mother of a 15-year-old girl, witnesses her niece being
tortured and murdered by the Royal Nepal Army, she speaks publicly
about the atrocity. The army abducts her daughter in retaliation, and
Devi embarks on a three-year struggle to uncover her daughter’s fate
and see justice done. THE SARI SOLDIERS follows her and five other
brave women, including Maoist Commander Kranti; Royal Nepal Army
Officer Rajani; Krishna, a monarchist from a rural community who leads
a rebellion against the Maoists; Mandira, a human rights lawyer; and
Ram Kumari, a young student activist shaping the protests
to reclaim democracy. THE SARI SOLDIERS intimately delves into the
extraordinary journey of these women on opposing sides of the
conflict, through the democratic revolution that reshapes the
country’s future.
AWARDS:
• Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New York; Nestor Almendros Prize
• Tri-Continental Film Festival, India; Grand Jury Prize
• Rencontres International Film Festival, Montreal; Prix Camera au
Poing: Best Socio-Political Film
• Watch Docs Film Festival, Warsaw; Special Jury Mention
JULIE BRIDGHAM, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER BIO:
Julie Bridgham is a Sundance Institute Documentary Fellow, and the
Director and Producer of the award-winning documentary, THE SARI
SOLDIERS, for which she received the 2008 Nestor Almendros Prize for
courage and commitment in human rights filmmaking. Over the past six
years, she has lived for extended periods in Nepal where she produced
and directed numerous documentaries including several documentaries
for the United Nations and the films INDENTURED DAUGHTERS, a
documentary on Nepali girls sent into bonded labor, as well as the
films HOPE IN THE HIMALAYAS and CHILDREN OF HOPE for the Nepalese
Youth Opportunity Foundation. She has produced and directed numerous
documentary series that have taken her around the globe, including
“Exotic Islands”, and the series “Royal Families of the World,” as
well as documentary series for the BBC, the Discovery Channel and TLC.
Before working in documentary television, she worked in Costa Rica as
a Project Officer for an environmental project with the United
Nations, and in Bolivia as a researcher for a human rights
organization.
DISTRIBUTED BY WOMEN MAKE MOVIES:
http://www.wmm.com
Established in 1972 to address the under representation and
misrepresentation of women in the media industry, Women Make Movies is
a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which
facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of
independent films and videotapes by and about women. The organization
provides services to both users and makers of film and video programs,
with a special emphasis on supporting work by women of color. Women
Make Movies facilitates the development of feminist media through an
internationally recognized Distribution Service and a Production
Assistance Program.
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THE SARI SOLDIERS | Trailer | Women Make Movies
A film by Julie Bridgham
“Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepals modern history, The Sari Soldiers is an extraordinary story of six womens courageous efforts to shape Nepals future in the midst of an escalating civil war against Maoist insurgents, and the Kings crackdown on civil liberties. When Devi, mother of a 15-year-old girl, witnesses her niece being tortured and murdered by the Royal Nepal Army, she speaks publicly about the atrocity. The army abducts her daughter in retaliation, and Devi embarks on a three-year struggle to uncover her daughters fate and see justice done.” — Youtube.com
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Documentary Filmmaker Jesse Epstein
Paradigm Shift Community Outreach Coordinator Julia K. Weis here interviews acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jesse Epstein about her work dealing with the relationship between body image, media and physical perfection. Epstein, who most recently had the video “Sex, Lies and Photoshop” featured as a New York Times Op-Ed, received an MA in documentary film from NYU and was selected for “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. Her three films are distributed to universities and high schools through New Day Films (a filmmaker owned & operated business). “WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES” received the Short Subject Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, “34x25x36” premiered at SXSW, and “THE GUARANTEE” won Best Short Film at the Newport International Film Festival.
NYT Op-Ed "Sex, Lies and Photoshop"
PShift: How did you get started working in film?
Jesse Epstein: It’s weird, I feel like I started more with thinking about body image and issues and then thinking about what’s the best way to communicate a message and that kind of led me to, OK – media, like, how do you counteract media messages? You have to use media itself! So I really wanted to learn filmmaking specifically to do projects around body image and media, but then I got really swept up into it and now I’m in love with film as lighting and camera angles and things I never thought I would be interested in.
I started off trying to learn about filmmaking by working as a prop-person and an on-site dresser – I worked in the art department on independent films. I then realized that I was getting some of the tools but I wasn’t getting any of the theory. So I decided that I would go to graduate school at NYU at the Gallatin program and create my own major, but really focus on documentary film and gender studies and combine all of this stuff. This barbershop (from “WET DREAMS & FALSE IMAGES”) was my thesis film, and then I’ve been building on that to make a larger project. It’s definitely been a way for me to get involved in social activism.
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