“Tell the world the way it should be. Is open sharing of ideas and information important to you? Form a team or go it alone and make a video to demonstrate the value of information sharing as you see it.”

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“Ethnographic Video Online provides …more than 750 hours and 1,000 films. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.

Image: still from Love Iranian-American Style, Ethnographer Tanaz Eshaghian
The most recent additions to this streaming video collection include:

*They Call Him “Ah Kung”;    Frank Tsai, Richard Yao-Chi Chen – Taiwanese
*Swiss Graffiti; Jacqueline Veuve – Swiss
*The Shoemaker; Jerome    Mintz – Spanish
*Death Row; Diane Christian, Bruce Jackson – American
*Tough, Pretty or Smart; Dillon Bustin, Richard Kane – American
*Man Without Pigs; Chris Owen – Papua New Guinean
*Mountain Women; Aline Luque – French
*Harikare: The Spirit’s Host; Virginia Valadão – Enawene Nawe
*Passing Through My Mother-In-Law’s Village; Tai-Li Hu – Taiwanese
*Our Territory (Our Lands); Vincent Carelli – American Indian
*A Right to Belong; David Feingold – Akha; Thai
*The Art of Documentary Filmmaking: A day with Aye Nan Lin; Lindsey Merrison – Burmese
*Love Iranian-American Style; Tanaz Eshaghian – Iranian
*The ‘M’ Way: Time + People = Money; Carol Upodhya, Gautam Sonti – Indian
*Standing Silent Nation; Courtney Hermann, Suree Towfighnia – Lakota; Oglala
*Dollars and Dreams: West Africans in New York; Jeremy Rocklin – West African
*Those With Voice (Los Con Voz); Jeff Arak – American Indian; Mexican
*Dancing with Miklos; Robert Gardner – Hungarian

Check it out to learn more about it!

8½ Foundation | A magical new movie birthday for kids

“The 8½ Foundation is a Scottish-based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to introducing world cinema to children. Its aim is to create a new birthday: a film birthday, at the age of 8½, that celebrates the power of cinema to expand children’s horizons and welcomes children into the wider world of movies, beyond what is normally available to them at the multiplex or on their TV screens.”