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Important Social Issues of Our Time
Fanlight Productions is a leading distributor of innovative film and video works on the social issues of our time, with a special focus on healthcare, mental health, professional ethics, aging and gerontology, disabilities, the workplace, and gender and family issues. Their films include the Emmy award-nominated Mayor of the West Side and the Academy Award-winning Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien.
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Mayor of the West Side
The story of a Jewish teenager with multiple disabilities who becomes a local celebrity in his New York City neighborhood
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Hepatitis C
About 10,000 people unnecessarily die each year from diseases associated with Hepatitis C.
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The Family Meal
This documentary links the cause of today's obesity crisis in the U.S. to the decline of the family meal.
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Secret Fear
Explores the full spectrum of anxiety-related disorders, from panic attacks and phobias to OCD
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The Checker King
After the death of his wife, 81-year-old Harold O'Brien enters the National Checker Championship.
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The Angry Heart
Spotlights the modern epidemic of heart disease among African Americans.
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Caring at the End of Life
The film focuses on the nursing staff's role in improving patient-clinician communication in end-of-life care.
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The Personals
Academy-Award winning video about senior citizens as they put on a play about dating through the personal ads
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Four Lives
People with bipolar disorder share their struggles to achieve control over the illness and their lives
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Packrat
A profile of two families whose lives have been shaped by hoarding and the "packrat" behavior of one family member
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Breathing Lessons
Academy Award winning portrait of Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio as a child and spent much of his life in an iron lung
