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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:

6000 A Day - image6000 A Day

The story of how the world's top decision makers knowingly failed to prevent the spread of the AIDS epidemic.

Icarus Films | 2001 | 55 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
A Chance to Grow - imageA Chance to Grow

An experienced nurse gives a special perspective on what infants, parents and staff go through in the newborn intensive care unit

The Fanlight Collection | 2000 | 53 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
A Change of Character - imageA Change of Character

This captivating video features neuroscientist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, author of The Executive Brain, as well as neurologist and best-selling author Dr. Oliver Sacks (Awakenings), in a discussion of frontal lobe damage.

The Fanlight Collection | 2004 | 30 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
A Family Disrupted - imageA Family Disrupted

Coping with the death of a sibling.

The Fanlight Collection | 2007 | 22 minutes
A Family Undertaking - imageA Family Undertaking

Explores the complex psychological, cultural, legal and financial issues surrounding an important and growing new trend: the home funeral movement

The Fanlight Collection | 2003 | 56 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
A Sentence for Two - imageA Sentence for Two

The film contrasts the stories of prison inmates who are forced to give their newborn baby up with a prison nursery where infants spend the first year of life alongside their mothers.

The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 58 minutes
Able to Laugh - imageAble to Laugh

Enter the world of disability as interpreted by six professional comics, who happen to be disabled.

The Fanlight Collection | 1993 | 27 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Acting Blind - imageActing Blind

Takes audiences behind the scenes as a company of non-professional actors rehearse a play about life without sight. The performers have no problem imagining themselves in these roles: they are blind themselves.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 52 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Are the Kids Alright? - imageAre the Kids Alright?

Filmed in courtrooms, correctional institutions, treatment centers, and family homes, this searing documentary examines the results of the tragic decline in mental health services for children and adolescents at risk.

The Fanlight Collection | 2004 | 57 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Autism: A World Apart - imageAutism: A World Apart

Three families show us what the textbooks and studies cannot show about autism.

The Fanlight Collection | 1988 | 29 minutes | College/Adult/Professional

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