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The invention of childhood duration 26 minutes 19 seconds The invention of childhood The invention of childhood	The invention of childhood 'The Invention of Childhood' invites… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Liliana Sulzbach Producer Monica Schmiedt - Liliana Sulzbach Series No Running time 00:26 Year of production 2000 Country Brazil Genre Documentary Program description in session In some countnies children smash batteries to bring in money for their family. In others, they beg or busk on the street, break rocks, or mind their siblings. They do adult wonk for little on no pay. When aduits speak of childnen they often use expressions like “my child” or “his children”—as if children are a commodity for adult use. But is “being a child” the same thing as “having a childhood”? Is the notion of childhood—a time when children are allowed to develop & mature at their own pace under the financial and emotional protection of their parents—a concept affordable only in wealthy societies? Take time to listen to the children in this Brazilian documentary and see if your opinion on this issue changes. UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 61 File card side A File card side A
The day I decided to be Nina duration 15 minutes 32 seconds The day I decided to be Nina The day I decided to be Nina	The day I decided to be Nina 'The day I decided to be Nina' is a… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Ingeborg Jansen Producer Leontine Petit - Joost De Vries Series Yes Series of title Anthology Running time 00:15 Year of production 2000 Country Netherlands Genre Children Program description in session Guido is an 11-year old boy who is often taken for a girl. That is not such a bad thing, because he would rather be a girl! This film is one part of a documentary series about children making fundamental decisions that affect the rest of their lives. UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 57 File card side A File card side A
Such is my karma duration 29 minutes 24 seconds Such is my karma Such is my karma	Such is my karma A group of kids from a poor part of Warsaw tell… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Grzegorz Pacek Series No Running time 00:29 Year of production 2001 Country Poland Genre Documentary Program description in session Give your new DV camera to a bunch of kids and let them keep it for several days! This is what Grzegorz Pacek did. He had to teach them how to use it, of course. And guess what? They immediately pointed the camera at him and started asking those questions even his best friends never dared to ask. And then they were off! Within just a few days, he had material for this very film. UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 54 File card side A File card side A
Sale duration 28 minutes 41 seconds Sale Sale	Sale 'Sale' is an innovative consumer… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Linus Torell-Karin of Klintberg-Marie Lundberg-Vigor Sörma+othe Producer Linus Torell Series Yes Series of title REA (weekly) Running time 00:28 Year of production 2000 Country Sweden Genre Children Program description in session They are 12 years old and they are journalists like you have never seen before. Watch your back, one of them might take your job. This is a weekly consumers’ magazine for chiidren from 10-14 but are they doing things in their own way, or “our way”? Take notes, you have a lot to learn here. UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 46 File card side A File card side A
Children: Kosovo 2000 duration 1 hour 30 minutes Children: Kosovo 2000 Children: Kosovo 2000	Children: Kosovo 2000 Kosovo in the spring of 2000. Winter is over but… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Ferenc Moldovanyi Producer Ferenc Moldovanyi Series No Running time 01:30 Year of production 2001 Country Hungary Genre Documentary Program description in session Kosovo, in the spring of 2000. Besarta, Violeta, Edmond and Valdrim, Miljana and Jelena are Albanian and Serb children in Kosovo. They represent the most defenseless victims of a war governed by mad hatred. They peak different languages, but they tell the same story —after the war hatred between them is stronger than ever. The film tells their story in black and white with colour super 8 images shot by the children themselves. UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 8 File card side A File card side A
The Games: Land Claim duration 28 minutes 0 seconds The Games: Land Claim The Games: Land Claim	The Games: Land Claim In the year that Sydney hosted the Olympic Games,… 2001 +2 More From UPF Producer Mark Ruse Series Yes Series of title The Games (series II) Episode number in series 3 Running time 00:30 Year of production 2000 Country Australia Genre Entertainment Program description in session Of the combined 26 episodes screened in 1999 and 2000, episode 3 exhibited a pure moment in Australian television history; it became a cause-célèbre among viewers across the nation because it echoed the mood about Australia’s Aboriginal people. The Games is a serial satire on the Olympic Games preparation done in a mock documentary style. It shows how Public TV can use inexpensive popular storytelling to raise political issues. UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 59 File card side A File card side A
Into the Glory duration 26 minutes 9 seconds Into the Glory Into the Glory	Into the Glory 'Into the Glory' - the new face of… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Jan Eelen Producer Christa Eersels Series Yes Series of title Into the Glory Running time 00:30 Year of production 2000 Country Belgium Genre Entertainment Program description in session A biting satire on reality TV shows. This controversial, fictitious documentary magazine programme focuses un the “ordinary people, like youu and me, that are becoming increasingly television subjects. ls this an encouraging trend to give them voice or are they just being fooled —with the viewers complicity? Do the ratings go high when the “reporters” peek behind the scenes? Watch this! UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 26 File card side A File card side A
For Fai Presidente duration 32 minutes 30 seconds For Fai Presidente For Fai Presidente	For Fai Presidente The film is about the story of a fictitious… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Lucrecia Martel Producer Emilio Cartoy Díaz Series No Running time 00:53 Year of production 1998 Country Argentina Genre Fiction Program description in session A fake magazine, a fictitious candidate, a fiction about politics and politicians in Argentina, during a period of a presidencial campaign - the last elections of the millennium. Making fun of everything and everybody, this political satire uses laughter as the best way to really reveal what lies behind the system. Or is this pure entertainment? UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 21 File card side A File card side A
The way my uncles lived duration 42 minutes 9 seconds The way my uncles lived The way my uncles lived	The way my uncles lived This is a nostalgic documentary in which the… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Krzysztof Magowski Producer Janusz Skalkowski Series No Running time 00:34 Year of production 2000 Country Poland Genre Documentary Program description in session It’s a filmmaker's dream. You find out that your uncle, himself an amateur filmmaker, saved all of his footage of the family, over the course of the century. What do you do? Take all your uncles back to the original locations and relive Poland’s glorious and not so glorious history. One family's story captures the life of a nation. UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 73 File card side A File card side A
The spirit doesn't come anymore duration 38 minutes 32 seconds The spirit doesn't come anymore The spirit doesn't come anymore	The spirit doesn't come anymore The practice of shamans invoking… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Tsering Rhitar Producer Sherab Lhawang - Tsering Rhitar Series No Running time 00:38 Year of production 1997 Country Nepal Genre Documentary Program description in session Nepal. Majestic mountains. Exotic food. Fascinating atmosphere of everyday life of ordinary people. Mesmerizing music. But this film is not just one more picturesque travelogue. It is a drama of human relations. It is about family conflict, a generational conflict, and cultural conflict. Reality shows can't hold a candle to this. UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 72 File card side A File card side A
In a world of exceptions duration 59 minutes 39 seconds In a world of exceptions In a world of exceptions	In a world of exceptions Foster children - a charged expression, a… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Noomi Liljefors - Caroline Mörner Berg Producer Noomi Liljefors Series No Running time 00:59 Year of production 2000 Country Sweden Genre Documentary Program description in session There’s a fly on the wall of this foster family and it’s starting to cry. They’ve taken in several children who now feel part of the family and don’t want to leave - but the real parents want them back. Straight cinema venté would have been powerful enough but here the filmmakers push the emotional buttons again und again. ls this sensationalism or social service? UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 25 File card side A File card side A
Three fables for white men in Africa duration 16 minutes 13 seconds Three fables for white men in Africa Three fables for white men in Africa	Three fables for white men in Africa WHITE MEN FUN. A small village lost in the… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Claude Gnakouri - Luis Marques Producer Philippe Braunstein Series No Running time 00:17 Year of production 1998 Country Cote d'Ivoire Genre Fiction Program description in session Three fables about African reality versus the 'whiteman’s' perception of Africa. What happens when a rich Westerner visits an 'exotic' African villlge...? 'Bia buzungu ni kizungu zungu', as they say in Swahili. 'Whitemen business seems to create vertigo...!' UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 75 File card side A File card side A Shop steward Anne Roper Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda Pierre Merle
The return of Navajo Boy duration 57 minutes 18 seconds The return of Navajo Boy The return of Navajo Boy	The return of Navajo Boy Some cultures forbid photography because they… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Jeff Spitz Producer Jeff Spitz - Bennie Klain Series No Running time 00:56 Year of production 2000 Country United States Genre Documentary Program description in session Some cultures forbid photography because they fear it will steal their spirit. ln 1999, in Monument Valley Utah, a Navajo community gathers to watch a film they have never seen, shot of them in 1952. Yet another film crew captures this experience with a mission to expose in mind. But events take a surprising turn. What we expect is not what we get. lssues of personal responsibility arise, as in: how do we repay the debt when we 'borrow’¡' people’s lives for 'our' story and then just walk away from the 'fallout'? UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 71 File card side A File card side A Shop steward Anne Roper Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda Pierre Merle
100% white duration 1 hour 10 minutes 100% white 100% white	100% white Welcome to the violent world of the… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Leo Regan Producer Leo Regan Series No Running time 01:10 Year of production 2000 Country United Kingdom Genre Documentary Program description in session A decade ago, Leo Regan found acceptance with a tight-knit group of racist thugs. Ten years later he takes another look at their lives. ls their lack of hair still a matter of choice? A solo work using a DV cam allows for trust, intimacy and access. The DV cam changes the rules of the game —would this thought-provoking and insightful film be possible without it? UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 1 File card side A File card side A Shop steward Anne Roper Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda Pierre Merle
Yizo Yizo (episode 1) duration 44 minutes 52 seconds Yizo Yizo (episode 1) Yizo Yizo (episode 1)	Yizo Yizo (episode 1) ''Yizo Yizo 2' is the story of an… 2001 +2 More From UPF Director Teboho Mahlatsi Producer Angus Gibson Series Yes Series of title Yizo Yizo Episode number in series 1 Running time 00:50 Year of production 2000 Country South Africa Genre Fiction Program description in session The series portrays youngsters in a South African township in an honest, but stylish and compelling way. lnterwoven into stories about their problems at school, in their families and with crime gangs are what the producers hope are lessons in life. As an educational programme it may be highly controversial, but as TV-drama it works, because every one is watching it! UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 85 File card side A File card side A Shop steward Gustau Serra
Spotlight duration 13 minutes 20 seconds Spotlight Spotlight	Spotlight 'Groot Licht' - 'Spotlight'… 2001 +2 More From UPF Producer Jan-wilhem Bult - Lieve Demerre Series Yes Series of title Groot Licht (daily programme) Running time 00:30 Year of production 2000 Country Belgium Genre Children Program description in session Children’s programmes on science that really succeed in teaching whilst entertaining are not the norm on public television... Or anywhere else for that matter. 'Groot Licht' explores the edu-tainment genre with funny and explicit (maybe too explicit?) associations and language that guarantee kids stay tuned, whilst parents and teachers try to digest! The experts are always young and the topics are always intriguing. Do we really need any grownups on children’s television shows at all? By the way, do you know how many kilos of dandruff your body produces... per year? UPF shelf location PN1992.13 .I56 2001 v. 52 File card side A File card side A Shop steward Gustau Serra