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| Title: | Birdsong & coffee a wake up call |
| Director: | Anne Macksoud and John Ankele |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (56 min) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) |
| Imprint: | New York : Old Dog Documentaries ; 2006 |
| Language: | English and Spanish with English subtitles
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| Notes: | A film by Old Dog Documentaries. Executive producer, Jeanne Fossani ; produced and directed by Anne Macksoud and John Ankele ; original music, Michael Zsoldos ; translations, Catalina Alcaraz and Jeanne Fossani.
More information in:
http://www.olddogdocumentaries.com/vid_bsc.html
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| Plot: | "What is the connection between coffee farmers, birds and ourselves? Why are 25 million coffee farmers impoverished while we spend more for our coffee? Why are North American songbirds becoming harder and harder to find? What is the difference between Free Trade and Fair Trade? This film explores the answers to these questions and many more. We hear from experts and students, from coffee lovers and bird lovers. But most importantly, we hear from the coffee farmers themselves and learn how their lives and ours are inextricably joined in ways that we need to understand."
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Costa Rica. Free trade. Coffee industry. Agricultural ecology. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | A man, when he is a man. |
| Director: | Valeria Sarmiento |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (66 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format. |
| Imprint: | New York, N.Y. : Women Make Movies, 1982. |
| Language: | Spanish dialogue, English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Leo De La Barra, photography ; Claudio Martinez, editor.
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| Plot: | Set in Costa Rica, illuminates the social climate and cultural traditions which nurture machismo and allow the domination of women to flourish in Latin America.
Simply by using interviews and allowing men and women to speak for themselves, the glaring double standard in Costa Rica appears effortlessly as an all-pervasive inequality, rarely overcome by a truly reciprocal relationship between a man and a woman. Femme filmmaker Valeria Sarmiento includes a worst-case scenario, discussions with two prisoners who freely admit they were unfaithful to their wives, all the while noting that they are in jail because they murdered their spouses for being unfaithful. The double standard starts early, as children in Catholic schools are segregated by gender, as boys insist on marrying virgins when they grow up but freely go to prostitutes when they feel like it, and as a multitude of customs and attitudes indicate that the female spouse is a possession and not a partner. Most viewers will readily admit that any given society is not much different than that of Costa Rica if equality for women is considered across the social and economic spectrum. - Eleanor Mannikka
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| Subjects: | Documentary films. Costa Rica. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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