New Additions and New Distributors!

Docuseek added over 240 new titles from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, dGenerate Films, Women Make Movies, Collective Eye Films, First Hands Films, and new distributors AndanaFilms, and Distrib Films as well as new filmmakers Connie Field (Clarity Films), Roberta Cantow (Buffalo Rose Productions), and Isabelle Rèbre (A Perte De Vue Films) to the Complete Collection since October 2021. Click on the image above to watch clips of new releases!

New releases from Bullfrog Films include a number of films that speak directly to many of the issues in front of us — White Supremacy, individual bravery, the rule of law, and democracy. A Crime on the Bayou tells the infuriating and inspiring story of Gary Duncan, who, as a Black teen in 1966 Louisiana, gently touched a white boy's arm to break up a fight outside of a newly integrated school and was unjustly prosecuted by a racist justice system. With the help of a young Jewish attorney, he fought to and won at the Supreme Court for the right to a jury trial. A Reckoning in Boston begins as an observational film about a rigorous night course that takes place at a humanities center in the poor Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, but progresses as the filmmaker is awakened to his privilege and the violence, racism and gentrification that threaten the students' very place in the city, and becomes a collaborative story with them as they grow together in the face of racist power structures. The Boys Who Said NO! is the first documentary to profile the young men and women who actively opposed the military draft in order to end the Vietnam War.

The outrageous condition of water in Jackson, Mississippi has brought to light the all-to-common disregard for clean water by government and corporate forces and the primary need for both protection of water and "infrastructure" repair and reinvestment in marginalized communities. In Thirst for Justice, extraordinary citizens take on industry and government, risking arrest to fight for clean water in Flint, Standing Rock, and the Navajo Nation.

Major award-winning releases from Bullfrog Films also include the mind-blowing AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness, which follows six researchers who approach the mysteries of consciousness from uniquely different perspectives (the second film in the Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth trilogy); Blowback, a thoroughly dynamic exploration of the cinematic representation of the Iraq (2003-2011) and Afghanistan (2001-2021) wars and how they shaped audiences’ memories of them; Frenemies, set to the pulsating beats of Afro-Caribbean music, which examines the difficult and fraught relationship between Cuba and the United States and paints a vivid portrait of a nation fighting for survival against the world's longest-running embargo; Meat the Future, which follows Dr. Uma Valeti, the co-founder and CEO of Upside Foods, a “cultivated” meat startup the explores a solution to the global, unsustainable hunger for meat; The Dirty War on the National Health Service, a timely documentary filmed in Britain and the United States just prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic; and Unguarded, which focuses on APAC, the revolutionary Brazilian prison system centered on the full recovery and rehabilitation of its persons.

Fall Bullfrog Films new releases include Reflection: a walk with water, which follows filmmaker Emmett Brennan as he walks 200 miles next to the Los Angeles aqueduct in search of a vision for humanity worth living for — what he discovers has everything to do with water; Pleistocene Park about an eccentric Russian scientists' quixotic quest to recreate a vanished ice age ecosystem and save the world from a catastrophic global warming feedback loop; and In Our Own Hands, which follows the extraordinary steps ordinary people are taking to help millions with chronic diseases find their way back to health. Brothers On The Line, narrated by Martin Sheen, is an award-winning documentary feature exploring the extraordinary journey of the Reuther brothers — prolific union organizers who led an army of laborers into an epic struggle for social justice; and Gyaangee a beautiful, entertaining, must-see for anyone looking to gain a keener understanding of the magic within the magnificent world artform of the totem pole.

Icarus Films new releases focus our attention on crucial contemporary issues, including racism, antisemitism, the recent political history of Ukraine, immigration, American foreign policy, inequality and more. Prism is a film that exposes the hidden racism of cinematic technology through the conversations between three dynamic filmmakers, including Rosine Mbakam (The Two Faces of Bamileke, Chez Jolie Coiffure, Delphine's Prayers); two powerful and timely films from the director of the Capitalism series, Ilan Ziv: Antisemitism, which traces the origins of antisemitism in France from the Middle Ages to the Dreyfus Affair, and State of Terrorism, a two-part series on the War on Terror — a war launched in the name of defense of our democracies — and how over time it became its own biggest threat; and Les Enfants Terribles, which follows two siblings in Turkey who clash with their parents and push back against the expectations of marrying young.

New Icarus Films also include Sankara’s Orphans, a film that traces the footsteps of 600 orphans and rural children sent from Burkina-Faso to be educated in Cuba after Thomas Sankara came to power in 1983 (with the promise of developing a revolutionary government that would transform the West African country) and their return after his assassination in 1987 and the end of the Cold War; Monobloc, a documentary on the plastic chair — the world’s best-selling piece of furniture since its invention in the 1970s — a symbol of cheap design, environmental waste and bad taste across much of the Western world, in contrast with its affordability and utility in impoverished countries, a microcosm of economic globalization and inequality; and Rocío, which weaves together footage from over a quarter of a century, following the family of undocumented Mexican immigrant and Harvard University student Darío Guerrero as they struggle to stay together in the face of his mother's terminal illness and the punishing constraints of U.S. immigration law.

In Close Relations (Rodnye), Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky (director of Putin's Witnesses and Gorbachev. Heaven) crisscrosses Ukraine to explore the country’s society after the Maidan revolution (a primer to the recent Russian invasion); A History of the European Working Class, a four-part series that highlights how the working class has played an essential part in Europe’s history; Golda Maria, a searing first-person interview with a feisty Holocaust survivor; Searching for Gerda Taro, which celebrates the life and work of Taro — a charismatic Jewish refugee from Germany, an anti-fascist, and a trailblazing photographer whose work would be forgotten for decades.

New releases from Icarus Films on the arts and artists include Artists & Love, a nine-part series that delves into the tumultuous romantic and creative partnerships that shapes some of the most towering figures in art history, from Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera; On the French Riviera with Man Ray and Picasso: more than a surrealist travel diary, it tells the story of the friendship between a group of painters, photographers and poets who are passionate about art in the summer of 1937; Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation, which shows two of the most celebrated names in international contemporary art engaged in intense discussion about drawing, painting and filmmaking; and Ruth Stone's Vast Library of the Female Mind, which chronicles Ruth Stone's heroic life story as a poet, mother, and teacher, leaving no question as to why she became both a Vermont and national treasure.

From dGenerate Films, Blue Island is a creative documentary shows real-life characters recreating protest movements from Hong Kong's modern history; and in Karamay, filmmaker Xu Xin helps a community break the silence nearly two decades after a horrible fire killed nearly 300 schoolchildren.

Women Make Movies added 27 exclusive new titles, including powerful and significantly relevant new releases. Fly So Far is set in El Salvador, a country with some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, criminalizing those who experience miscarriages and other obstetric emergencies. As states in the U.S. enact abortion bans, the film serves a grave warning of how far state control of women’s bodies can go. As SCOTUS hears Brackeen v. Haaland, which could overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, Daughter of a Lost Bird explores issues core to this case. Directed by Brooke Pepion Sweeney, it tells the story of a Native woman adopted into a white family who reconnects with her Native identity and begins to view herself as a living legacy of U.S. assimilationist policy. By sharing a deeply personal experience of inherited cultural trauma, the film opens the door to broader and more complicated conversations about the erasure of Native culture and questions of identity surrounding adoption. The Celine Archive is an attempt to uncover the real story of Celine Navarro who, in 1932, was buried alive by her own Filipino-American community in an act of gendered violence. The film reveals Navarro’s feminism and resistance in a time when neither was embraced. Ways of Being Home is an evocative audiovisual meditation on the experience of Mexican immigrants living and working in rural America; and In the Rumbling Belly of Motherland documents an inspiring female-led news agency in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Women Make Movies also added 58 non-exclusive titles this fall, including Birthright: A War Story, Black Feminist, and 62 Days, for Docuseek Complete Collection 3rd Edition 1-year and 3-year subscribers. Docuseek Complete Collection Life of File customers can add on these non-exclusive titles at special prices.

Four exclusive new films were added from Collective Eye include A Growing Thing, which follows Jabulile Ndaba, a woman training to become a leader of a women’s project in a township near Johannesburg, South Africa; Food for the Rest of Us, which examines how getting back to the land is tied to other movements such as Black Lives Matter, Idle No More and Times Up; Hope on the Hudson, an expansive documentary on how the Hudson River has been polluted by hazardous waste and poisonous chemicals over centuries; and Modified, a touching, personal investigative journey to find out why genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are not labeled on food products in the United States and Canada.

Collective Eye also added 49 non-exclusive titles. New and popular releases include A Texas Myth, Brave Girls, Built to Burn, Common Ground: The Story of Bears Ears, Fractal, If Only I Were That Warrior, Island Earth, Last Call for the Bayou, Mind Zone, Necessity, The Passengers, Sara Leavitt’s Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio, Spawning Grounds, To Us the Ashes, We the People 2.0, and Unslut. These powerful films are bonus content for Docuseek Complete 1-year and 3-year subscribers. Docuseek Complete Life of File customers can add-on these films at special prices.

New award-winning releases from First Hand Films include It Is Not Over Yet, a film that showcases a small retirement in Denmark, which looks to inspire a complete change in the way people with dementia are treated in the healthcare system by example, shifting from medicine to care; The River Between Us, from award-winning German filmmaker and biologist Carl Gierstorfer, about a group of dedicated anthropologists who stand between outside forces and the Mashco Piro in the Peruvian Amazon; and The Story of Looking from filmmaker Mark Cousins, who embarks on a global odyssey from his own bed to celebrate the role of visual culture in human experience, and in his own life.

Films from new distributor AndanaFilms focus on society, politics, history and art, with an international scope. New releases include Diabetes: A Heavy Cost; Stonewall; A Place Called Wahala, about the painful history of the German occupation of Togo in WWI; The Time of Forests, which examines the preservation of wild forest v. industrial forestry; The Grand Masters of the Chauvet Cave, about recently discovered cave paintings and drawings made 36,000 years ago, the oldest human artistic expression to date; and Guardians of the Sea, which reveals the reality of the daily work of activists from an ocean defense organization, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

New distributor Distrib Films added The Last Tycoons, a six-part series that highlights the men and women who produced landmark French films from 1945 to 1980 – the incredibly talented people who worked behind-the-scenes on many classic films; and the major award-winning animated film Josep, set in an internment camp for refugees from the Spanish Civil War, the film follows the blossoming friendship between a sympathetic guard and an artist, Josep Bartoli.

Films from Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Connie Field (Clarity Films) include The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for its cultural and historical significance, about the American women who went to work during World War II to do “men's jobs” as told by five former “Rosies” themselves; Al Helm, a documentary about an African American gospel choir that goes to Palestine to sing in a Palestinian play about Martin Luther King, Jr.; Oliver Tambo, the untold story of the man behind the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid in South Africa; and The Whistleblower of My Lai, which follows the Kronos Quartet’s production of Jonathan Berger and Harriet Chessman’s opera My Lai, about the actions and life of the whistleblower who revealed the 1968 massacre by U.S. troops in Vietnam.

New filmmaker additions also include Isabelle Rèbre’s (A Perte De Vue Films) Pollock & Pollock about Jackson and Charles Pollock, two brothers, two painters, caught up in the twists of twentieth century American history; Roberta Cantow’s (Buffalo Rose Productions) Clotheslines, which presents an enduring, vivid account of “women’s work,” and If This Ain’t Heaven, a documentary that offers a portrait of an African American man that may very well challenge any number of stereotypes and assumptions about masculinity and African-American men.

The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection is growing!

New additions to The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection include On the Divide, a story of three Latinx people living in McAllen, Texas, who are connected by an abortion clinic on the US/Mexico border; Ricochet, about the trial of an undocumented immigrant, Jose Inés Garcia Zaraté, for the accidental shooting of a young woman, Kate Steinle on Pier 14 in San Francisco in July of 2015; Rez Metal, which explores the thriving heavy metal scene on the Navajo reservation through the remarkable story of the band I DONT KONFORM; and YOUTH v GOV, the story of America’s youth filing a ground-breaking lawsuit against the U.S. government, arguing that it is the duty of the government to protect their constitutional rights to a stable climate.

Fall releases include My So-Called Selfish Life, a paradigm-shifting documentary about one of our greatest social taboos: choosing to not become a mother; The Gig is Up uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of people around the world working for companies like Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo; Say His Name: Five Days for George Floyd is an on-the-ground look at the uprising in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd; Powerlands investigates the displacement of indigenous people and the environmental devastation caused by global corporations; Inhabitants shows Indigenous perspectives on environmental stewardship and resilience in a changing world; and in Abortion: Add to Cart activists are combining the power of abortion pills and the internet to provide self-managed abortions in a revolutionary way.

The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection is a largely standalone collection, exclusively streaming on Docuseek. The collection is now scheduled to grow to 225 exclusive titles by the end of 2023. Subscribers to The Docuseek Complete Collection 3rd Edition and Canadian Collection 3rd Edition are eligible for a 15% discount on The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection or a special 10% discount on single titles. 25 films from The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection are available in The Docuseek Complete Collection 3rd Edition and Canadian Collection 3rd Edition.

Contact sales@docuseek2.com for more information.

New Additions to The Global Environmental Justice Documentaries Collection!

The Global Environmental Justice Documentaries Collection (GEJ) is growing to more than 45 films that address the challenges of environmental justice, with ten title additions this fall. The collection is comprised of films that explore the intersection of human rights, inequality, environmental degradation, colonization, industrial development, and climate change, featuring under-reported stories from around the world, with a special focus on Asia and North America. GEJ includes in-depth teaching guides and is an affordable collection meant to enhance classroom engagement around these films.

New films added this fall include Bullfrog releases A Fierce Green Fire and Cooked, with more new-title additions coming soon this December. Other highlights of the collection are Beijing Besieged By Waste and Plastic China, two films that explore China's large-scale waste issues and how they affect their population; Come Hell or High Water and Tar Creek, which look at marginalized communities in the US on the frontlines of environmental injustice fighting back against powerful interests; and films that explore the accelerating effects of industry on human health and the environment, like Death by Design and The True Cost.

The Global Environmental Justice Documentaries Collection is a standalone collection. Licensing options are 1 year and 3 years. Contact us for more information!

Docuseek Welcomes Joanne Montgomery!

We are pleased to announce that Joanne Montgomery has joined Docuseek! She will handle regional sales in the northeast and Pennsylvania.

Joanne has over 35 years of professional experience working with libraries. She previously was the Director of Member Services for the WALDO Consortium for 18 years. In her role at WALDO, she created long-trusted relationships with members, helped negotiate better pricing options and contracts with vendors. She also worked directly with Docuseek promoting our collections, pricing information and setting up webinars. Prior to WALDO, Joanne also held positions at SilverPlatter Information and NELINET.

Say hello at jmontgomery@docuseek2.com. Welcome, Joanne!

Docuseek Partners with PRAGDA!

Stay tuned for a big announcement about a partnership between Docuseek and PRAGDA, distributor for the newest Latin American, Spanish, and Latinx cinema!

PRAGDA distributes the finest contemporary documentaries and features produced each year. Inspiring, challenging, and entertaining, they cover a wide array of the region’s hottest topics, including the global economy, DACA, immigration and exile, feminism, education, modern politics, and more.

Technology Update: Audio Description!

Further to our committment and responsibility to increasingly provide a web site and streaming content that is accessible and usable by all people, Docuseek is piloting audio description (AD), narration used to provide information surrounding key visual elements in a media work for the benefit of the hard-of-seeing. Docuseek will provide AD for a select number of titles from Bullfrog Films and Women Make Movies to start.

Conferences!

Docuseek recently exhibited at two fall conferences.

The 2022 Video Trust Virtual Conference in late October, included sessions on streaming video in the classroom; publishing for the media library profession; diversity in media collections; and student-created media.

We also attended both the in-person and virtual Charleston Conference this month. The Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials that aims to discuss issues of importance to them all.

If you attended these conferences, remember to Contact us to secure your conference discount!

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