[b][u]Givology 2013 Documentary List[/u][/b]
[i][u]Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide[/u][/i]
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Description: [font=Arial]Shot in ten different countries, [/font][font=Arial][u]Half the Sky[/u][/font][font=Arial] is a four-hour documentary series that introduces women and girls who continuously fight bravely to change their unimaginable difficult situations. With the guidance and empowerment of six actresses turned advocates, these women and girls share their stories of heartbreaking challenge, dramatic transformation, and enduring hope, showing the world the essence of the human spirit[/font]
[i]As in the book written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the documentary advocates the same message of women empowerment with a tone that is just as honest as it is hopeful. [u]Half the Sky[/u] is an inspiring documentary that will have viewers aware of not only women’s issues but also the steps needed to fight these problems.[/i]
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[i][u]Why Poverty?[/u][/i]
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Description: In an effort to incite people in talking about poverty, Steps, a non-profit organization, began a project called Why Poverty?. Why Poverty? consists of eight separate long films and thirty short films that, while focused on different parts of the world, all tackle big problems through their subtle yet thought-provoking stories. The documentaries can now all be freely viewed online on the project’s [url=http://www.whypoverty.net/en/]website[/url].
[i]The long and short films shot for Why Poverty? provide clear images of poverty and the effects of poverty. “What is it like to live in poverty? How does it shape you? Why does it matter? What can I do to change the situation?” These long and short films definitely should be seen to start asking questions and thinking about poverty.[/i]
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[i][u]Born into Brothels[/u][/i]
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Description: At Calcutta’s notorious red-light district, documentary photographer Zana Briski befriends seven children whose mothers work as prostitutes. In hopes of possibly improving their lives, Briski gives each of the seven children a camera for them to learn how to shoot and edit photographs in hopes of possibly improving their lives. Despite the oppression that the children face day to day, they use their photography class with Briski to escape their troubles and gain confidence in themselves.
[i]Because the photos taken in the movie were taken by the seven children taught by Zana Briski, director, producer, and writer of the film, a new perspective on life in Calcutta’s notorious red-light district is given as the photos reveal that even beauty can reside in seemingly the most dismal and hopeless of places. [u]Born into Brothels[/u] is a must-see for everyone in need of inspiration![/i]
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[i][u]The Boys of Baraka[/u][/i]
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Description: With as many as 75% of African-American males in the community dropping out of high school each year, crime, drugs, and juvenile delinquency have impaired the African-American community of Baltimore, MD. However, twenty boys are given the chance to escape that daunting statistic as a ‘90s program was created to help at-risk students from Baltimore with academic promise meet their potential. As a result, these boys are sent 10,000 miles away to the Baraka School in Kenya where they face an academic rigor and degree of discipline all too new to them in hopes of improving their impoverished circumstances.
[i]Although they grew up in a city where their fates were seemingly sealed, the boys are able to change as they are given the opportunity to study at the Baraka School in Kenya. [u]The Boys of Baraka[/u][/i][i] is a film that further supports the undisputed notion that education can indeed drastically change even the most destitute child’s circumstances--definitely a must-watch film![/i]
[i][u]The Lottery[/u][/i]
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Description: Although the U.S public school system continuously comes under fire, [u]The Lottery[/u] shows the desire of a quality education amongst children living in Harlem and the Bronx as parents enter their children in a lottery for one of the most successful charter schools in New York City. Meanwhile, the film also highlights the conflict between charter schools and public schools that is still a much controversial topic today.
[i]Beneath the controversy between charter and zone schools precisely focused on in the film, [u]The Lottery[/u] stresses one thing that practically everyone in the world, not just the families placing their children into the lottery have in common: the desire in achieving a quality education. [u]The Lottery[/u] will leave viewers aware of and thinking about the education systems that exist in our world today.[/i]
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[i][u]Innocence[/u][/i]
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Description: Every day the hill tribe children in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand face impoverished circumstances that cripple their opportunities to achieve a quality education. These children often would have to travel eighty to ninety kilometers on narrow, circuitous mountain paths to get to school. However, if it was raining, the mountain paths would be impassable, disabling the children in going to school. Still, the parents in these hill tribe families were often too poor to afford tuition. Wanting to ensure these children a proper education, Prayoon Kamchai, the principal of the Baan Mae Toh school in Chiang Mai Province, takes slow steps to improve the children’s schooling experience that ultimately make a lasting positive impact.
[i]Despite all of the conflicting odds, Prayoon Kamchai was able to provide the hill tribe children a quality education by dedicating his time and effort to the cause. No matter how much they are willing to give, [u]Innocence[/u] will leave viewers with the inspiration to start giving their time and effort to change the world around them.[/i]
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[i][u]Girl Rising[/u][/i]
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Description: [i]Girl Rising[/i][font='Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] is an innovative documentary film about the power of education to change a girl’s life – and our world as we know it. This film chronicles the lives of nine girls from different regions around the world, who face the atrocities of child trafficking, abject poverty, arranged marriages, and innumerable other human rights violations. In spite of these heartbreaking injustices, the nine girls provide hope for a stronger future through their amazing testimonies. [i]Girl Rising[/i] features voice performances from A-list actors, including Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Selma Hayek, Alicia Keys, Liam Neeson, Meryl Streep and Kerry Washington.[/font]
[i]“This film gives visual corroboration to knowledge we already have: Educating women and girls has the most optimistic, positive effects on families, communities, and economies worldwide. If to see it is to know it, this film delivers hope; reasonable, measurable, tangible hope that the world can be healed and helped to a better future!” – Meryl Streep, Agence-France Presse[/i]
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[color=#454545][i][u]The Road to Traffik[/u][/i][/color]
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[font='Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Description: Narrated by actress and philanthropist Lucy Liu, "The Road to Traffik" exposes the horrific world of sex trafficking and forced prostitution that Somaly Mam, a former Cambodia sex slave, hopes to put an end to once and for all. The filmmakers accompany photographer Norman Jean Roy on his mission to document the widespread violence that women and children face daily in the brothels of Cambodia and Southeast Asia.[/font]
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20 AUG 2013