Media AMWA

Screening information: Please contact [email protected] to inquire or visit fareastdeepsouth.com/booking

Social Media: @FarEastDeepSo

FAR EAST DEEP SOUTH is an award-winning documentary that follows Charles Chiu and his family (including his son, producer Baldwin Chiu) as they travel from California to Mississippi to find answers about Charles’ father, K.C. Lou. Charles was left behind in China as a baby and is reluctant to discuss his family’s complicated past with his sons. The family’s emotional journey to the Deep South leads to surprising revelations and uncovers the racially complex history of Chinese families during the Jim Crow era and the interconnected relationship between the Black and Chinese communities. It’s an unforgettable story offering a poignant perspective on healing, race, immigration, and American identity. The film has been featured on CBS News, USA Today, PBS and more. Screening now for free on Tubi.

Screening Information: Licensing is acquired through codebluedoc.com. The distribution partner is Virgil Films.

Social Media: @code_blue_film

“Would you change your habits to live a longer, healthier life? Code Blue provides the prescription to do just that. Dr. Stancic’s triumphant story will inspire you and reveal why medicine’s most powerful tool is almost never prescribed.

“Code Blue follows a passionate physician, Dr. Saray Stancic, as she reflects upon her journey from a multiple sclerosis diagnosis to wellness through her own adoption of lifestyle medicine.  Dr. Stancic introduces us to expert physicians and scientists who are paving the way to make meaningful and necessary change in our healthcare environment, and in turn, empowering audiences to stand up and reclaim control of their health.”

— Code Blue

A film by David Block

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” — Winston Churchill

Horses don’t judge by appearance. They look past peoples’ disabilities and recognize the emotions inside. A horse is a mirror of the soul.

Horseback riding provides physical therapy. Walking with the horse, touching the horse, grooming the horse all provide emotional therapy.

Gift Horses shows the benefits of using horses for therapy:

• Horses provide a safe and protected venue to help Autistic children speak for the first time.
• Horses comfort people disabled by grief.
  Horseback riding gives blind people the freedom and mobility to go wherever they want.
• Horseback riding puts wheelchair users at the same eye level as able-bodied riders.
• Horseback riding gives wheelchair users the ability to travel over any terrain.

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Winner of the following awards:

• Inclusion Award received at the 2018 PhillyCAM Award Ceremony Philadelphia, PA
• First Place The 2017 Media Film Festival Audience Award in Media, PA
• Second Place Audience Award 2017 Southside Film Festival in Bethlehem, PA
• 2016 IndieFest recipient of the Award of Merit: Documentary Short (St16 IndieFEST Film Awards Humanitarian Award Honorable Mention
• Best Director Documentary Short 2016 Atlantic City Cinefest in Atlantic City, NJ
• Second Place Audience Award at the 2016 Roslyn Film Festival in Roslyn, PA
• First Place The 2017 Media Film Festival Audience Award in Media, PA
• Second Place Audience Award at the 2017 Southside Film Festival in Bethlehem, PA
• 2016 IndieFest recipient of the Award of Merit: Documentary Short (Student)
• 2016 IndieFEST Film Awards Humanitarian Award Honorable Mention
• Best Director Documentary Short 2016 Atlantic City Cinefest in Atlantic City, NJ
• Second Place Audience Award at the 2016 Roslyn Film Festival in Roslyn, PA
• Inclusion Award received at the 2018 PhillyCAM Award Ceremony Philadelphia, PA

If you think that a wheelchair user is incapable of dancing, then think again.

Wheelchair users, whether athletically mobile or not, can learn to dance with a standing partner. This documentary brings wheelchair users and standing partners together. Whether the wheelchair users choose to dance competitively or not, the activity puts them in a world without limits. They were taught to believe that their disabilities would limit them, and now doing something that they thought they would never be able to do exposes them to a world of possibility.

Accolades

• Award of Recognition Disability Issues at The Best Shorts Competition June 2019
• Nominated for Best Pennsylvania Filmmaker Category West Chester Film Festival April 2019
• Semi Finalist Utah Film Festival March 2019

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An award-winning Oscar qualified short film, My Mom and the Girl, starring Valerie Harper (in her last performance). This film offers a heartwarming true story of a woman with Alzheimer’s who embarks on an urban adventure that unexpectedly turns into a funny, poignant, and uplifting journey that redefines apparent disabilities as gifts.

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“When Donna Appell learned that her infant daughter Ashley had an extremely rare genetic disease that would kill her in thirty years, she set out to track down every person in the world with Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS). Realizing that no one was going to help cure “just one child,” Donna forms an advocacy group and travels throughout the US and Puerto Rico to gather as many patients as possible who suffer from HPS, which includes albinism, blindness, a bleeding disorder and often a fatal pulmonary fibrosis. By the time Ashley turns twenty, Donna, under insurmountable odds, has achieved something incredible: the advocacy group she started is now in the hundreds and the NIH has agreed to start a clinical trial.”

— Icarus Films

Film Accolades

• Best Feature Film, Brooklyn Girl Film Festival 2012
• Special Jury Award, Long Island Film Festival 2013
• Official Selection, 2014 Association of Clinical Research Professionals Conference
• Official Selection, 2013 DIA National Conference
• Official Selection, 2013 Arizona Science Center
• Official Selection, 2013 Bay Area Science Festival
• Official Selection, 2012 Seattle Science Festival
• Official Selection, 2012 Cannes Film Market
• Official Selection, 2012 National Institutes of Health Science Education Conference

This documentary explores the inequities in medicine that are the result of a healthcare system made by and for men and sheds light on the importance of accounting for sex and gender differences when providing care.

The film follows the journeys of several patients, includes provider perspectives, and discusses the importance of increasing education of sex and gender specific medicine to help improve health outcomes.

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Information on film screening: Contact Tricia Regan at [email protected].

“Although women and men are completely different genetically, almost all the healthcare we receive is based solely on research done on men. Because of this inequity, women die every single day, worldwide. Ms. Diagnosed will explore why the inequality exists, why it persists, and how it can change.”

— Tricia Regan, Director, Ms. Diagnosed

Website: www.1001cuts.org

Screening Information: Coming soon!

The foundation of this film is to raise awareness and bring social justice to a diverse patient population in need of surgical care in the United States. Although women have made up half of medical students since 2003, gender-based workplace discrimination and harassment for physicians continues. Described in detail in a recent report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine nearly half of women medical students have experienced sexual harassment before even graduating from medical school. These demeaning and life-changing experiences continue for women physicians as they advance in their careers. The operating room remains the epicenter of toxic masculine behavior within the healthcare system. With increasing numbers of women choosing surgical specialties, this culture is in need of change. Bullying, harassment and microaggressions are part of the day-to-day existence of women working in the operating room. Ultimately this environment impacts the delivery of care, as high-quality surgery requires a well-functioning team.

1001 cuts explores the toxic culture experienced by women surgeons from a variety of surgical specialties and diverse backgrounds, challenging the cultural stereotype of the surgeon as an older white male. Told through interviews, 1001 Cuts uses personal narratives to highlight issues specific to women surgeons while underscoring themes common to the #MeToo movement. The women in 1001 cuts offer solutions and provide inspiration to the next generation of women surgeons. The film will be designed to be used as an educational tool for medical students, nursing and other health care professions by organizations seeking to create an equitable workplace environment.

The increasing diversity within surgical professional spaces requires new definitions of professionalism. Recent attention to the bias, discrimination and harassment experienced by women physicians and surgeons in the workplace has not yet led to meaningful changes. This film is to be targeted towards a lay audience and an audience of learners interested in equity within healthcare workplaces. The film is expected to improve the workplace environment within the operating room for women and as a result improve surgical care for all by bringing attention to the barriers and challenges faced by women in the operating room environment.

Over and over, we have seen in healthcare that by improving the care for everyone we begin to lessen disparities. Women physicians outperform men in terms of communication styles, adherence to preventative medicine recommendations, surgical outcomes, and even mortality. Imagine if these women were provided an infrastructure geared towards allowing them to thrive – the health of our communities would improve.
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When the United States entered the war in 1917, women physicians numbered less than 6% of all physicians. Many were eager for the chance to serve their country but were denied formal commissioned status in the military. Undeterred, the women went anyways and found other ways to participate. Some became civilian contract surgeons in the U.S. Army or served with the French Army. Others volunteered with humanitarian relief organizations – the American Red Cross, the American Women’s Hospitals (founded by AMWA), the Women’s Oversea Hospitals, and the American Fund for the French Wounded to provide medical care both near the front or within civilian communities. A prevailing sense of patriotism and desire to be of service fueled their commitment. This film highlights the trailblazing work of American women physicians during the war effort.

Website: www.amwa-doc.org/wwi-film

Screening Information: Screening is free. Please visit amwa-doc.org/wwi-film for more information about screening, fliers, discussion questions, and more.

“This poignant documentary takes a look into the lives of five women affected by HPV, the widely misunderstood and controversial virus that causes several types of cancer, including cervical. Each of these women has an intimate story to tell. For Susie, Tamika and Christine, it’s a story of survivorship that comes with misconceptions, stigma, shame, heartbreak, pain and triumph. For the Forbes’ family, it’s about coping with the loss of their daughter Kristen and trying to prevent it from happening to others like her. Others like Kelly, who at 31 years began her cancer journey. The cameras follow Kelly on her epic battle to save her marriage, her career, her family and ultimately, her life.”

— Lumiere Media

Website: www.hpvepidemic.com/get-involved

Screening information:

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• For personal viewing with free CME, click here.

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“Feminist movements have the power to disrupt the status quo and radically alter the course of history for women and girls—and ALL historically marginalized people and communities globally. But what does it really look like to be a feminist leader today? At a time of unprecedented political uprisings around the globe, Fundamental invites global audiences to engage directly with the dedicated and courageous leaders who are standing up for our fundamental human rights and writing new futures for themselves, their communities, and the world.”
— Fundamental

Website: https://fundamental-film.com/#about

Screening Information: There is no fee to screen the Fundamental film series. Please sign up here to receive film links, a screening toolkit, and the tools you need to host a virtual or in-person screening and discussion in your classroom or community.

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‘CAREGIVER: A LOVE STORY highlights an essential, yet largely unseen workforce–the family caregivers of America…When 59-year-old Bambi decides to forgo further treatment for her cancer and die at home her husband Rick leaves his job to beome her primary caregiver—a role for which he has no experience and little support.”

— JessicaZitter.com

Website: caregiveralovestory.com

Screening Information: Please contact [email protected] for more information

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“BORN TO BE follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City—where, for the first time ever, all transgender and gender non-conforming people have access to quality transition-related health and surgical care.

With extraordinary access, this feature-length documentary takes an intimate look at how one doctor’s work impacts the lives of his patients as well as how his journey from renowned plastic surgeon to pioneering gender-affirming surgeon has led to his own transformation.”

— Transformation Productons, LLC

Website: www.borntobefilm.com

Screening Information: Host a virtual screening for your class, campus and/or community today, and bear witness to the doctors changing the landscape of medicine to bring care to their trans and gender-nonconforming patients. Sign up to get started or email [email protected] to learn more!

“In the gripping new documentary Turning Point, acclaimed filmmaker James Keach takes us inside the quest for the first medication that that could treat the underlying process of Alzheimer’s disease, more than a century after Dr. Alois Alzheimer first described the brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and cognitive skills. Along the way, we meet the people behind these grand experiments, the scientists driven as much by personal conviction as professional innovation. And we discover why medical science is never easy, often unpredictable and potentially perilous – and, as America’s preeminent scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson reminds us, always worth the pursuit.”

— Turning Point

Website: www.turningpointmovie.com

Screening Information: There are two different kinds of screenings currently available for Turning Point.

• Impact Screenings require the purchase of a screening license, and that fee varies based on type of audience, type of host, and number of attendees. These screenings can be public or private, and anyone is welcome to host a screening. The request form for this type of screening is here.
• RACERS is a special initiative in partnership with Gates Ventures. These screenings must be private, and are only for healthcare providers, students who will become healthcare providers, social workers, and schools of social work. It is free to host a screening as part of the RACERS program; we just require that all attendees complete a survey after they watch the film. All interested parties should email the Turning Point Screenings Team at [email protected] and include “RACERS screening request” in the subject line or apply for viewing here.

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“At the core of UNLADYLIKE2020 are the rich biographies of 26 trailblazing American women who broke barriers in male-dominated fields at the turn of the 20th century, such as science, business, politics, journalism, sports, and the arts, including the first woman to found a hospital on a Native American reservation, serve in the U.S. Congress, become a bank president, earn an international pilot’s license, lead scientific expeditions in the Arctic, sing opera at Carnegie Hall, or direct a feature-length movie. Presenting history in a bold new way, we bring extraordinary stories of daring and persistence back to life through rare archival imagery, captivating original artwork and animation, and interviews with historians, descendants, and accomplished women of today who reflect upon the influence of these pioneers.”

— UNLADYLIKE2020

Website: http://unladylike2020.com/

Screening Information: Currently, online screenings of the film are free of charge. Access the shorts here. The three women physicians featured are Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, Dr. Margaret Chung, and Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon.

We request speaker honoraria for filmmaker panels or Q&A’s after the shorts. After August 26, 2020, all screening requests will go through grasshopperfilm.com, pricing will vary. Please email [email protected] with any questions.

For free discussion guides/educational curricula, please click here.

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“Burden of Genius plunges the viewer into the controversy swirling around Starzl’s turbulent 60-year career before we land in the 1980s, the decade when organ transplantation, the stuff of science fiction, becomes a reality. Accusations of blind career ambition collide with reflections from colleagues and patients who credit him with saving thousands of lives through his innovations in surgery and immunotherapy.”

— Burden of Genius

Website: burdenofgeniusfilm.com

Screening Information: Please click here for more information.

“Target Zero is a moving, landmark documentary series that focuses on the medical as well as the social aspects of HIV treatment and prevention. The three short films interweave real-life patient stories, interviews with leading doctors, medical providers and scientists; and state of the art molecular animations. These accounts illuminate the complex history of controlling the HIV epidemic and reveal the ongoing need for compassionate, patient-centered care and a true understanding on a cellular level the science behind the treatments.”

— Target Zero

Website: targetzerofilm.org

Screening Information: For single use, click here. For screening instructions, please contact [email protected].

“Black Women in Medicine explores the history, contemporary issues and future possibilities of African-American women physicians by featuring the diverse voices and intimate stories of young medical students, practicing physicians and elder trailblazers.”

— American Film Showcase

Website: www.urutherighttobe.org/projects/black-women-in-medicine

Screening Information: Screening fees vary. Learn more about the film here.

“A suicide attempt survivor is on a mission to find fellow survivors and document their stories of unguarded courage, insight and humor. She discovers a national community rising to transform personal struggles into action.”

— The S Word

Website: theswordmovie.com

Screening Information: Click here to purchase viewing package including a transcript, discussion guide, and screening checklist.

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“When World War I broke out on August 4, 1914, U.S. Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick and the American Hospital’s board of governors offered the hospital’s facilities to the French authorities in order to care for the wounded. The AHP instantly became the epicenter of American volunteer efforts in France, ensuring until 1917 that the tremendous wave of American generosity was utilized to meet the massive needs of war-torn France. Watch “The American in Paris” to relive the American Hospital’s history during World War I and understand its vital role throughout the war leading to its recognition by the French government as an institution of public benefit on March 19, 1918.”

— FUSAC

Screening Information: Screening is free. Please contact [email protected] for additional information.

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“Will Lautzenheiser was chasing the loves of his life. A year into a promising relationship, he landed a dream job teaching film. Suddenly it was all interrupted by a persistent pain that, unbeknownst to him, was being caused by a deadly infection. When Will’s organs started shutting down, and his limbs began dying, doctors had to amputate both his arms and legs to save his life. Will’s world, as he knew it, would never be the same. As Will tries to accept his new life, news breaks about an experimental surgery that offers him new hope to reclaim his independence.

Putting his life and health on the line, Will risks it all to become the third patient to undergo a double-arm transplantation at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The documentary STUMPED chronicles how he copes with the loss of his filmmaking career by pursuing stand-up comedy; navigates an evolving relationship with his partner Angel, who becomes Will’s lover and caregiver; and gradually transforms, physically and spiritually, with newly transplanted arms. Filmed over four years, STUMPED explores themes of adversity, courage, as well as the life-changing potential of pioneering medicine.”

— Good Docs

Website: gooddocs.net/products/stumped

Screening Information: Visit Good Docs for information on public screenings and licensing.

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“HUNGRY TO LEARN introduces the faces behind an American crisis — college students so strapped to pay tuition that they don’t have enough money to eat or a place to live. A lack of food is just a symptom of a bigger problem, the American Dream of a college education slipping out of reach. It is the story of how colleges, once places for children of privilege, opened their doors to students of limited means but failed to provide enough financial aid to allow these new students to graduate without making painful choices. This documentary is not just about the devastating hunger crisis unfolding on American campuses, it is about what can — and should — be done about it.”

— Good Docs

Website: gooddocs.net/products/hungry-to-learn

Screening Information: Visit Good Docs for screening information.

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“Daring Women Doctors” highlights the intrepid, pioneering and diverse women who faced hostility and resistance in their pursuit of medical educations. This documentary examines how these women physicians greatly impacted their communities around the United States and internationally. It also demonstrates how women doctors exerted a long-lasting influence on the movement towards women’s rights.”

— PBS

Website: www.pbs.org/show/daring-women-doctors-physicians-19th-century

Screening Information: The film will be available on PBS beginning July 1, 2020. Please contact your local PBS station for viewing days/times.

Following the broadcast the film can be screened for a fee. Please contact [email protected] for more information.

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“RACE–The Power of an Illusion asks a question so basic it’s rarely raised: what is this thing we call race? Since its release in 2003, the series has become one of the most widely used documentaries ever in formal and non-formal education in the US. Millions of people have used the film to scrutinize their own deep-seated beliefs about race and explore how our social divisions are not natural or inevitable, but made. Now, in 2019, the series remains salient and timely.”

— www.racepowerofanillusion.org

Website: www.racepowerofanillusion.org

Screening Information: Please click here for more information on streaming and resources.

“[This] four-hour series crisscrosses the nation uncovering startling new findings that suggest there is much more to our health than bad habits, health care, or unlucky genes. The social circumstances in which we are born, live, and work can actually get under our skin and disrupt our physiology as much as germs and viruses.”

— unnaturalcauses.org

Website: unnaturalcauses.org

Screening Information: Watch episodes here.

“The U.S. is the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world. So why has our child well-being fallen to 26th? An alarming number of American children are following low developmental trajectories from the start. They enter adulthood with learning challenges, behavioral issues and even poor physical health. The evidence confirms that providing all our children the opportunity for a strong start pays many dividends, not just for individuals but for the future prosperity, equity and well-being of the nation. The Raising of America interweaves discoveries from neuroscience with the stories of families and communities struggling to provide the nurturing environment all babies and young children need.”

Website: www.raisingofamerica.org/raising-america

Screening Information: Access videos and resources here.

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“A filmmaker sets out to investigate the devastating migraine attacks that have her daughter in their grip. As mother and daughter seek understanding and ever-elusive treatment, we follow them into a bizarre and fascinating world populated by doctors, neuroscientists, other migraineurs, and such unexpected characters as Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, and Joan Didion. We learn that, rather than a terrible headache, migraine is a complex, deeply stigmatized neurological disease afflicting nearly a billion people worldwide. This kaleidoscopic journey, told through interviews, cinema verité, art and animation, explores the history, impact and raw emotion evoked by this unpredictable and confounding condition.”

— Out of My Head

Website: outofmyheadfilm.com/about

Screening Information: Requests for group and public screenings in the USA and Canada, as well as Home DVD and streaming options should be directed to KinoLorberEDU.com. For all other inquiries and an overview of distribution options visit outofmyheadfilm.com/buy-the-film.

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“NO MÁS BEBÉS tells the story of Mexican immigrant mothers who sued doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were sterilized while giving birth at Los Angeles County General Hospital during the 1970s. Alongside an intrepid, 26-year-old Chicana lawyer and armed with hospital records secretly gathered by a whistle-blowing young doctor, these mothers stood up to powerful institutions in the name of justice. Their landmark 1975 civil rights lawsuit, Madrigal v. Quilligan, asserted that a woman’s right to bear a child is guaranteed under the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. This EMMY® nominated film lifts up the significant contribution of Chicana activists who sought to redefine reproductive politics — not only as the right to abortion, but also the human right to bear a child. Their demand that the needs of poor women and women of color be heard resonates powerfully, as women’s reproductive choice is under attack and the reproductive justice movement struggles to ensure that all women have a voice in the debate.”

— No Más Bebés

Website: gooddocs.net/products/no-mas-bebes

Screening Information: Access the film at gooddocs.net/products/no-mas-bebes.