{"id":667,"date":"2009-02-18T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2009\/02\/18\/new-film-series-life-on-the-edge\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:30:27","slug":"new-film-series-life-on-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2009\/02\/18\/new-film-series-life-on-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"New film series, Life on the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Langsdale Library is now offering the film series, &#8220;Life 6: Life on the Edge.&#8221;  This new 11-part series addresses issues of globalization and their effects on the lives of people in the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the producers&#8217; (Bullfrog Films) description of the individual DVDs:<\/p>\n<p>1. Edge Of Islam &#8211; Three Muslim students face a choice between their faith and their future.<\/p>\n<p>2. Castro Or Quit &#8211; Two young doctors in Venezuela have to decide whether to leave the country or stay with their patients.<\/p>\n<p>3. No Country For Young Girls? &#8211; A young Indian woman has to choose &#8211; stay with a husband who doesn&#8217;t want female children, or make it on her own.<\/p>\n<p>4. The Unforgiven &#8211; Should General Butt Naked (n\u00e9e Joshua Blahyi) &#8211; now a Christian pastor &#8211; be forgiven for his role in Liberia&#8217;s horrific civil war?<\/p>\n<p>5. Looking For My Gypsy Roots &#8211; Hungarian film director Arpad faces a dilemma &#8211; should he track down his Roma father?<\/p>\n<p>6. The Dilemma Of The White Ant &#8211; Dominic Ongwen is both a victim and alleged perpetrator of LRA war crimes. Should he face an international court?<\/p>\n<p>7. Three Sisters &#8211; Eritrea&#8217;s women fought in the war; should they now liberate themselves from harmful traditional practices?<\/p>\n<p>8. The Pied Piper Of Eyasi &#8211; The Hadza are among Africa&#8217;s last hunter gatherers &#8211; should they follow charismatic Baallow into the modern world?<\/p>\n<p>9. The Prince &#8211; A young Pakistani landowner chooses between trying to implement the MDGs in the village that his family owns, and a quiet life.<\/p>\n<p>10. Running On Empty &#8211; Highlights the plight of two young mothers &#8211; one in South Wales and the other in Northern Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>11. Collision Course &#8211; Reviews the positive steps being taken in India and Brazil to confront the serious public health issue presented by traffic accidents.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and reviews on the Life series, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bullfrogfilms.com\/catalog\/l6.html\">http:\/\/www.bullfrogfilms.com\/catalog\/l6.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Langsdale Library is now offering the film series, &#8220;Life 6: Life on the Edge.&#8221; This new 11-part series addresses issues of globalization and their effects on the lives of people in the developing world. Here are the producers&#8217; (Bullfrog Films) <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2009\/02\/18\/new-film-series-life-on-the-edge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  New film series, Life on the Edge<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}