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complex series of offerings to the hearth,
the ants, the river, and the deceased.
Silvestre Pantaleon then struggles to pull
together the money needed to pay for the
curing ceremony and provide for his family,
dedicating himself to the only
remunerative activities he knows:
handcrafting rope (made from the maguey
plant) for religious ceremonies, and
making seldom-used household objects
that he alone still has the skills to produce.
SILVESTRE PANTALEON -the result of a
collaboration between an anthropologist
who lives Oapan and a filmmaker
dedicated to working in indigenous
communities-unfolds with no interviews or
narration. Rather, scenes from daily life
are woven together in rich ethnographic
detail and lingering imagery that explore a
rural community situated in the shadow of
a highway bridge to the international resort
of Acapulco. Over this bridge pass
thousands of tourists, oblivious to the
village life just below yet worlds apart.
Awards
� Best Feature-Length Documentary,
2011 Morelia Film Festival
� Principal Prize, 2011 International
Documentary Film Festival of Mexico
City
� Best Film (All Categories), 2011
Montreal First Peoples' Festival
Item no. : RW03100842
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 65 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 390.00
THERE'S THERE'S NO NO HOLE HOLE IN IN MMY
M Y
HEAD
HEAD
By Alison Segar
In 2007, aged 54, Abby Hale was
diagnosed with early onset of Alzheimer's.
As a mom and medical practitioner Abby
eloquently shares with grace and insight
what she has both gained and lost as a
result of this harsh and cruel disease. This
film allows us a rare glimpse into a world
that is becoming increasingly common in
our society, but is rarely discussed in such
an honest and open way.
Item no. : ZS03650837
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 14 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 190.00
AGRICULTURE
MALAWI'S MALAWI'S GREEN
GREEN
REVOLUTION: REVOLUTION: SEEKING
SEEKING
SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
1998 1998-2015
1998 2015
By Charles Mann, Doug Karr, and Michael
J. Palmer
Responding to recurrent food crises, by
1998 scientists in Malawi had developed
and field-tested new maize varieties and
crop combinations that promised Malawi a
Green Revolution. However, with farmers
too poor to purchase seed and fertilizer,
how to empower Malawi's farmers with
this new technology?
The answer came in a dramatic response
to a food crisis in 1998 when donors and
government distributed small Starter
Packs of the new seed, fertilizer, and
nitrogen fixing legumes to all smallholder
farmers in Malawi — 2.8 million
households. Production soared, and by
the end of year 2, Malawi had a large
maize surplus. Judging Starter Pack's
annual $25 million cost unsustainable,
donors forced a change in concept from
spreading the new technology to all
farmers to providing a social safety net:
lower productivity seed and less fertilizer
in the pack, and packs only for Malawi's
neediest. This change placed Malawi's
Green Revolution on hold, and production
fell towards traditional levels, so that by
2005, Malawi again was in desperate food
crisis.
Over the objections of donors, the
Government responded to the crisis by
providing vouchers to all farmers allowing
them to buy at a sharp discount two bags
of fertilizer and improved seed. At a cost of
about $70 million per year, the surge of
improved seed and fertilizer restarted
Malawi's stalled Green Revolution, and the
country again moved into maize surplus.
With the World Bank having judged this a
"smart subsidy", perhaps this approach
will prove sustainable, even though it
overlooks much of the science that
motivated the original Starter Pack
approach.
The film brings to life some central
dilemmas of development policy as
supporters and opponents of Starter Pack
express their views, and as donors press
to reshape the program from a focused
instrument of technological change into an
element of a social safety net, then into
something midway between.
Review
� "I REALLY like the Starter Pack film. It
is thoughtful, balanced, picturesque,
and is truly excellent in showing the
reactions of various stakeholders. It's
a gem." - Walter Falcon, Prof.
Emeritus, Stanford University and
Former Chairman, CIMMYT
Item no. : VB03790830
Format : DVD (Color)
Duration : 39 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 305.00
RETURN RETURN TO TO THE THE BROUCK BROUCK:
BROUCK :
THE THE THE FENLAND, FENLAND, 40 40 YEAR YEARS YEAR S
ON
By Colette Piault
Forty years after the production of The
Fenland (Le Brouck) comes a follow up
about the Audomarois Fenland.
Return to the Brouck (Retour au Brouck)
Set in the natural environment of northern
France, criss-crossed with water ways,
market gardening as well as breeding
remain the only productive activities.
Nevertheless, the number of fenlanders
has seriously diminished from 200 farms
in the 1970 to 40 in 2010. Other elements
are now intervening such as ecology,
preservation and development like the
Natural Regional Park and the Romelaere
Natural Reserve, or leisure activities like
waterfowl hunting, fishing and tourism.
Through images and words Return to the
Brouck expresses this new reality,
confronting the actors of the past - young
fenlanders of the 70s - with the present.
Juxtaposing the images of the past with
those of 2010. The core of the film still
remains, as in the 70s, the vivid problem
of the present and the future of the
Audomarois Fenland and its inhabitants.
Item no. : HU03650831
Format : DVD (Color, Black and
White, French with
English subtitles)
Duration : 55 minutes
Copyright : 2011
Price : USD 305.00
AGRICULTURE/HO
RTICULTURE
WEED WEED KEY KEY AND AND
AND
IDENTIFICATION IDENTIFICATION SYSTE SYSTEM SYSTE SYSTE M
FOR FOR FOR WEEDS WEEDS OF OF THE
THE
NORTHEAST, NORTHEAST, THE
THE
Criteria based search system and
database for 180 weed species found in
the Northeastern U.S. The database
supplies textual and graphics information
on all species. The program was
developed to facilitate the user's ability to
identify weeds with a minimum amount of
data and taxonomic experience. Much
easier to use than traditional dichotomous
keys.
Item no. : YN07860446
Format : DVD
Price : USD 140.00
AMERICAN
STUDIES
CHASING CHASING WATER WATER
WATER
Directed by Pete McBride
Breathtaking photography tells the story of
the Colorado River, which flowed to the
sea for 6 million years and now dries up 90
miles short of the Sea of Cortez.
After spending a decade working abroad
as a photojournalist, Colorado native Pete
McBride, decided to focus on something
closer to his home and his heart: the
Colorado River which cuts through his
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