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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:

The Culture of Emotions - imageThe Culture of Emotions

Designed to introduce cultural competence and diversity skills to mental/behavioral health professionals and students who deal with multi-cultural client populations.

The Fanlight Collection | 2002 | 58 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
The Family Meal - imageThe Family Meal

The relationship of obesity and the decline of the family meal.

The Fanlight Collection | 2005 | 19 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
The Healing Arts: New Pathways to Health - imageThe Healing Arts: New Pathways to Health

This compelling and evocative documentary profiles a unique program which uses the arts in an innovative treatment approach for people living with chronic, disabling physical and emotional challenges. It integrates technology, writing, music, theater, dance, and other arts into patient care, staff training, and wellness programs.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 28 minutes
The Knowledge of Healing - imageThe Knowledge of Healing

The first feature documentary dealing extensively with Tibetan medicine.

Icarus Films | 1996 | 89 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
The Mothers' Triangle - imageThe Mothers' Triangle

A revealing, heartrending portrait of two generations of young, single mothers living in the shadow of abuse and abandonment.

The Fanlight Collection | 2005 | 66 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
The Pitch of Grief - imageThe Pitch of Grief

Explores the emotional process of grieving through interviews with four bereaved men and women, young and old

The Fanlight Collection | 1985 | 28 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
The Secret Life of Babies - Part One - imageThe Secret Life of Babies - Part One

Part One - Prenatal psychology. The first of a two-part examination of the psychological development of babies, from intrauterine life to the first months after birth. How do fetuses and babies perceive their worlds, and ours?

Icarus Films | 2005 | 43 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
The Secret Life of Babies - Part Two - imageThe Secret Life of Babies - Part Two

Part Two - Post-natal psychology. Part two of a two-part examination of the psychological development of babies, from intrauterine life to the first months after birth. How do fetuses and babies perceive their worlds, and ours?

Icarus Films | 2005 | 43 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
The Spectrum of Autism - imageThe Spectrum of Autism

The experiences of several families who have struggled to love and care for children who fall at various points on the spectrum of autism.

The Fanlight Collection | 2002 | 34 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
The Way We Die: Listening to the Terminally Ill - imageThe Way We Die: Listening to the Terminally Ill

Intimate and movingly filmed interactions between medical personnel and their terminally ill patients encourages health professionals to work with their patients in determing end-of-life care.

The Fanlight Collection | 1995 | 24 minutes | College/Adult/Professional

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