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Women in the Mines (1996 Video)

Director

Tess Fajardo

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

Highlights women’s perspectives as large-scale mining dislocates indigenous communities in the Philippines from land they have inhabited and managed for centuries.

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Slums on Screen

Date

23 Feb 2017, 13:36

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums by Igor Krstić (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), 288 pages, ISBN: 978-1474406864 (hardback), £75 About the reviewer: Tamara Courage is a PhD...

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Almost Like Fire (1995 Video)

Director

Richard Stanley

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Follows development worker Fely Villareal as she journeys home to the Philippines to look at the progress of women’s groups. On the island of Cabugao women have set up their own fishing enterprises, but...

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Soaps for Social Change (2000 Video)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) UK education

Behind the scenes of a television and radio soap opera in the Philippines that incorporates the value of social and behavioural change in its message. Includes a brief history of serial dramas that have...

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Mysterious Milkfish, The (1982 Film, Video)

Director

Neill McKee

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Documents how researchers at the South East Asian Fisheries Development Centre in the Philippines have succeeded in breeding milkfish in captivity.

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Fuelling the Philippine Tiger (1996 Video)

Producer

Mercia Seminara

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

After years of military dictatorship, the Philippines is now giving priority to economic development by opening its doors to international companies. This programme looks at the problems relating to the...

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Seattle Syndrome (2000)

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £30.00

Many factory workers in the Philippines want an improvement in their working conditions and rates of pay. But they are also scared of losing their jobs if they protest too loudly. Their jobs depend on the...

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Sinsin: Spirits on Stage (1998 Video)

aka: Sinsin: Le Theatre des Genies: La Dramaturgie Rituelle de Punang-Iraraj

Director

Charles MacDonald

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 34 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

In Punang, a small coastal area in the southern part of Pulawan island off the Philippines, a young woman, Miming, undergoes the first ceremony of her ‘sinsin’ ritual cycle. In undergoing this ritual she...

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Seeing is Believing (1991 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Information technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

Introduces visual settlement planning (VISP), a computerised approach to land-use planning that can incorporate both statistical and graphical data into a portable format on a microcomputer workstation. VISP...

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Norte, The End of History (2014)

Director

Lav Diaz

Subject

Film studies; Literature; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £8.69

In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law-school dropout commits a horrific double murder; a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. A...

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