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The Fanlight Collection

The Fanlight Collection has a special focus on healthcare, mental health, professional ethics, aging and gerontology, disabilities, the workplace, and gender and family issues.

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The Fanlight Collection includes the following titles:

Awakening from Sorrow: Buenos Aires 1997 - imageAwakening from Sorrow: Buenos Aires 1997

Documents the power to transform pain into action and to lift the veil of repression that has gripped a generation of young people orphaned by Argentina's "Dirty War".

The Fanlight Collection | 2009 | 40 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
Battered Hearts - imageBattered Hearts

Domestic abuse is not always physical. Focusing on abusers as well as their victims, this documentary looks at the devastating range of physical, verbal, and emotional assaults which abusers may inflict, but also profiles successful programs which offer awareness, help and healing.

The Fanlight Collection | 2005 | 27 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Birth - imageBirth

The story of a woman caught up in a cycle of pregnancies because of social pressure to produce a male child, and two other stories of babies, in need, or absent, in Arab countries.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 26 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Bisexual Virgins - imageBisexual Virgins

Tina and Samantha are unsure about their sexual identity but want to explore the possibility that they may be bisexual.

The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 43 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Boy In The World - imageBoy In The World

Following four-year-old Ronen, a young boy with Down syndrome, this intimate documentary concretely demonstrates that inclusive preschool classrooms benefit both children with special needs and their typical peers.

The Fanlight Collection | 2007 | 44 minutes
Breathe Easy - imageBreathe Easy

78-year-old Lois Perelman reflects on aging, disability, self esteem, and public perception.

The Fanlight Collection | 2007 | 8 minutes
Breathing Lessons - imageBreathing Lessons

Academy Award winning portrait of poet and journalist Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio in childhood and spent much of his life in an iron lung.

The Fanlight Collection | 1996 | 35 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Bundle of Blues - imageBundle of Blues

A thoughtful look at post-partum depression, which may affect as many as one in five new mothers.

The Fanlight Collection | 2005 | 13 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Caring at the End of Life - imageCaring at the End of Life

The challenges patients, families and health care providers face when addressing end-of-life care and decision-making.

The Fanlight Collection | 2001 | 45 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Changing Identities: A Story of Traumatic Injury and Art - imageChanging Identities: A Story of Traumatic Injury and Art

The metamorphosis of victims of traumatic brain injury as they redefine who they are, through art.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 57 minutes

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