Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Selected Sources for Films and Videos

 

AFSC Film Library

American Friends Service Committee

2161 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02140

Phone: (617) 497-5273

Fax: (617) 354-2832

Email: pshannon@afsc.org

Web: www.afsc.org



Video and Film Lending Library; collection is largely oriented to social issues around the globe.

 

 

 

Americans for Middle East Understanding

475 Riverside Drive

Room 245

New York, NY 10115, USA

Phone: (212) 870-2053

Fax: (212) 870-2050

Email: info@ameu.org

Web: www.ameu.org



Videos oriented to understanding the Middle East and the conflicts in the region.

 

 

 

Learning Communications, LLC

Big World Media

38 Discovery, Suite 250

Irvine, CA 92618, USA

Phone: (800) 622-3610

Fax: (949) 727-4323

Email: sales@learncom.com               

Web: www.bigworldmedia.com

www.learncom.com

 

 


Supplies videos on general topics in international business and specific regions of the world. Also DVDs on more general topics such as inter-generational relations in the workplace.


California Newsreel

Order Department

P.O. Box 2284

South Burlington, VT 05407

Phone: (877) 811-7495

Fax: (802) 846-1850

Main Office
500 Third Street, Suite 505
San Francisco, CA 94107

Phone: (415) 284-7800
Fax: (415) 284-7801
Email: contact@newsreel.org

Web: www.newsreel.org

 

 



Film and video for social change.

 

 

 

 

CorVISION MEDIA, Inc.

872 S. Milwaukee Avenue, #295

Northbrook, IL 60062

Phone: (877) 364-7485

Fax: (866) 440-2614

Email: corvision@aol.com

Web: www.corvision.com

 


Primary distributor of ABC News productions, including “True Colors” and several series on cultural diversity.

 

 

 

CRM Films

2215 Faraday Ave.

Carlsbad, CA 92008

Phone: (800) 421-0833

Fax: (760) 931-5792

Email: See website for state specific contact info.

Web: http://www.crmlearning.com

 

A major rental and production service. Produces “Managing Diversity” and other training films for the workplace.

 

 

 

Documentary Educational Resources

101 Morse Street

Watertown, MA 02172

Phone: (617) 926-0491

Toll-free: (800) 569-6621

Fax: (617) 926-9519

Email: docued@der.org

Web: www.der.org

 


Documentary Educational Resources is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by independent film makers for the purpose of producing and distributing cross-cultural documentary film from around the world for educational use.

 

 

 

 

 

Films Media Group

Films for the Humanities and Sciences

200 American Metro Blvd

Hamilton, NJ 08619

Phone: (800) 257-5126

Fax: 609-671-0266

Email: custserv@films.com

Web: http://ffh.films.com

 

Offers an extensive collection of videos and DVDs focusing on Native American history and culture, Africa, slavery in the Americas, North Africa and Egypt, Jewish history and culture, The Middle East, Islam, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Tibet, China, Korea, Japan, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, The Philippines, West Iran, Papua New Guinea, Easter Island, Australia, Mexico and Central America, South America, Brazil, the Caribbean, Latino issues, racial and ethnic issues and the multicultural workplace. Also produces a training program of ten videos, “The Mosaic Workplace,” which addresses the issues of cultural diversity in the workforce.

The Global Film Initiative

145 Ninth Street, #105
San Francisco, CA 94103
USA
Phone: (415) 934-9500

Fax: (415) 934-9501

Email: gfi-info@globalfilm.org

Web: www.globalfilm.org

 



The Global Film Initiative promotes cross-cultural understanding through the medium of cinema by bringing films of other cultures to tAmerican audiences.  Check Contact on the website for educiton and other kinds of inquiries.

 

 

 

 

Griggs Productions

San Francisco, CA

Phone: (800) 210-4200

Email: Griggs@Griggs.com

Web: www.griggs.com

 

 


Produces the widely acclaimed, 7-tape series, “Going International.” Titles include: “Bridging the Culture Gap”; “Managing the Overseas Assignment”; “Beyond Culture Shock”; “Welcome Home, Stranger”; “Working in the USA”; and “Living in the USA.” Also produces the series “Valuing Diversity,” which focuses on issues in the multicultural workplace, and “Valuing Relationships.”  Also intranet and internet programs. 

 

Intercultural Press

20 Park Plaza

Suite 1115A

Boston, MA 02116

Toll-free: (888) 273-2539]

Phone: (617) 523-3801

Fax: (617) 523-3708

Email: info@interculturalpress.com

Web: www.interculturalpress.com

 


Carries a limited number of videos, including “Cold Water.”

 

 

 

The Intercultural Resource Corporation

78 Greylock Road

Newton, MA 02465

Phone: (617) 965-8651

Email: info@irc-international.com

Web: www.irc-international.com

 



A Different Place: The Intercultural Classroom, Cross-Cultural Conference Room, and other videos.

 

 

 

Aperian Global

394 Pacific Avenue

Suite 310

San Francisco, CA 94111

Phone: (415) 321-7900

Other locations including Boston, MA, Europe and Asia

www.aperianglobal.com

 

 

 



Podcasts and web tools such as assessment tools.

 

 

Iris Films

2600 10th Street

Suite 413

Berkeley, CA  94710

Phone: (510) 845-5414

Fax: (510) 841-3336

Email: irisweb@aol.com

Web: www.irisfilms.org

 

“Long Nights Journey Into Day” among other films. Links to other film distributor sites.

 

 

 

Media for Development International

184 Crescent Lane

Glenwood Springs, CO 81601 USA

Phone: (970) 384-1190

Fax: (970) 384-1191

Email: sales@mfdi.org

 



Films from Africa.

 

 

 

Microtraining Associates

141 Walnut Street
Hanover, MA 02339

Phone: (888) 505-5576

Email: info@emicrotraining.com or through website

Web: www.emicrotraining.com

 

 

DVDs and books focused on multicultural and competency-based counselor and therapist education. Produced the three-part lecture series on cross-cultural counseling by Derald Wing Sue. Currently distributes a four-part lecture series by Derald Wing Sue on racism. 

 


 

National Film Board of Canada

350, Fifth Avenue, Suite 4820

New York, NY 10118

Phone: (212) 629-8890

Fax: (212) 629-8502

Email: NEWYORK@nfb.ca

Web: www.nfb.ca

 



A major rental service and public agency that produces and distributes thousands of titles, many of which address issues of intercultural communication, international services, and a great deal of others, particularly Canadian point-of-view productions. Some short films are available on line at no cost.

 

 

New Day Films

190 Route 17M

P.O. Box 1084

Harriman, NY 10926

Phone: (888) 367-9154

Fax: (845) 774-2945

Email: curator@new.com

Web: www.newday.com

 



A major rental service. Many titles on social issues in society such as homelessness.

 

 

PBS Videos

1320 Braddock Place

Alexandria, VA 22314

Phone: (800) 531-4727

Web: www.shoppbs.org

 

A major rental and purchasing service for PBS programs on video and DVD.

 

 

Pyramid Media

P.O. Box 1048/WEB

Santa Monica, CA 90406

Phone: (310) 828-7577

Toll-free: (800) 421-2304

Fax: (310) 453-9083

Email: info@pyramidmedia.com

Web: www.pyramidmedia.com

 

 




Check the Series List.

 

 

Rich-Heape Films, Inc.

5952 Royal Lane, Suite 254,

Dallas, Texas 75230

Toll–free: (888) 600-2922

Phone: (214) 696-6916

Fax: (214) 696-6306

Web: www.richheape.com



A Native-American owned corporation that produces award–winning films and videos about Native Americans and other Native Peoples.


 

Stir-Fry Seminars and Consulting 

2311 8th Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

Phone: (510) 204-8840 ext. 100

Fax: (510) 204-8572

Email: marina@stirfryseminars.com

Web: www.stirfryseminars.com

 

 



Produces limited number multi-cultural videos.

 

 

Source: Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication Resource Directory

www.intercultural.org

             

                        © Intercultural Communication Institute

 

Using Film in Cross-Cultural Learning

Peggy Pusch and Lee Zeigler

 

 


 

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