Below are Kanopy staff’s recommendations for this month of September. You can access Kanopy at City Tech here.
On September 21st, there will be a Kanopy workshop open to students and faculty. For more information, contact Prof. Keith Muchowski.
This film addresses the seismic shift in how the population is now viewing life and death. Reflecting the paradigm shift that has the enormous baby boomer population deciding how they want to live the rest of their lives “Mortal” celebrates the importance of end-of-life as much as the beginning.
Filmmaker Daphne Valerius’s award-winning documentary explores how media images of beauty undercut the self-esteem of African-American women. The film also features powerful commentary from rapper and activist Chuck D, actresses Regina King and Jada Pinkett Smith.
This film tells the story of acclaimed author Jimmy Santiago Baca’s transformation from a functionally illiterate convict to an award-winning poet, novelist and screenwriter. Based on the memoir of the same name, it takes viewers into Baca’s past to uncover how the power of the written word lifted him from violence and pain.
This film follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival – where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity – to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China – where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night, with sometimes toxic results.
Once labeled a “youth-at-risk,” Matt Rutherford risks it all in a death-defying attempt to be the first person to sail alone and nonstop around North and South America. Braving the icebergs of the Arctic and the stormy seas of Cape Horn is no easy feat for even the most experienced sailor, much less a novice.
Following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, millions of refugees took the perilous journey across the South China Sea to find freedom. More than 30 years after, no major film or television program tells their stories. Bolinao 52 is a long-silenced voice, an unspoken legacy of the Vietnam War – the story of the Vietnamese Boat People.
