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- Subject: YALSA 1998 Selected Film & Videos for YA's List
- From: Esther Murphy <emurphy@ALA.ORG>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:15:56 -0600
DRAFT--The edited list will appear in School Library Journal and the
March 15 issue of Booklist magazine.
This draft list will also be made available shortly through ALA's
Fax-on-Demand (1-800-545-2433 press 8) and the YALSA website:
www.ALA.org/yalsa.
YALSA names Selected Films and Videos for Young Adults
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a
division of the American Library Association (ALA), has chosen
nine videos for its 1998 Selected Films and Videos for Young
Adults list. The annual list recognizes films and videos for
technical merit, content, use with and interest to young
adults ages 12-18.
The videos were screened, discussed, and selected by the
Selected Films and Videos for Young Adults Committee during
the ALA Midwinter Meeting in New Orleans.
Problems facing today's teenagers -- AIDS and suicide -- are
addressed in two powerful videos. Sex and Other Matters of
Life and Death (Cinema Guild) features New York's STAR
Theater, which has been recognized as the nation's most
innovative AIDS prevention program. "I'm really excited that
this video made the list, since I saw the original version of
the film at the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, where
the STAR Theater actors performed for an enthusiastic audience
of teens and adults," said Mary Flournoy, the committee chair.
Teen Suicide: I Don't Really Want to Leave (Lucerne Media),
dramatizes the feelings of a girl contemplating suicide.
These two videos will be shown as part of "Risky Business:
Videos for Teens on the Edge," a program scheduled for Monday
evening, June 29, 1998 during the American Library Association
Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Refusal Skills: Yes, You
Can Say No (Learning Seed) will also be screened at that
program; it uses humor and practical techniques to teach teens
how to say NO when peers try to pressure them into risky
behaviors.
The horrors of World War II were addressed in three videos
chosen for the list. After the Cloud Lifted: Hiroshima's
Stories of Recovery (RMS Communications) featured survivors of
the atomic blast. A modern neo-Nazi teenager travels back in
time to the last days of Anne Frank in Forget Me Not: The Anne
Frank Story (Grace Products). Cards with pictures of
Holocaust survivors and victims accompany the video; students
can seach a website to read more about them. Actual newsreel
footage shows the origins and events of the war in World War
II (Schlessinger Video Productions).
Triumph of the Nerds: Impressing Their Friends (Ambrose Video)
provided the committee with a funny and fascinating look at
how Steve Jobs and other teenage nerds became the fathers of
the PC.
Members of the 1998 Selected Films and Videos for Young
Adults
Committee were Mary Flournoy, The Free Library of Philadelphia
(PA), Chair; Sheila Anderson, Cumberland County (NC) Public
Library; Margaret Butzler, Bethel Park (PA) Public Library;
Maria Gentle, Arlington (VA) Public Library; Robyn Lupa,
Jefferson County (CO) Public Library; Rosemary Moran, Tulsa
(OK) City County Library; C. Allen Nichols, Wadsworth (OH)
Public Library; Ranae Pierce, Salt Lake City (UT) Public
Library; E.M. Roublow, Los Angeles (CA) Public Library; Rose
O. Ward, East Orange (NJ) Public Library. Jana Fine,
Clearwater (FL) Public Library served as the administrative
assistant.
--------------------- 1998 SELECTED FILMS & VIDEOS FOR YOUNG
ADULTS LIST
After the Cloud Lifted: Hiroshima's Stories of
Recovery. 1996. ___ min. VHS. RMS Communications,
$.___Survivors talk about their lives before, the
devastation they felt after, and their long recovery
after the atomic bomb was dropped on them and their
city.
Forget Me Not: The Anne Frank Story. 1997. 60
min. VHS. Grace Products. $99.
Closed captioned. A modern neo-Nazi teenager
travels back in time to the last days of Anne Frank
and experiences first-hand the horrors of the
Holocaust. The teacher/student handbook includes a
number of activities, including Forget-Me-Not
Internet cards about victims and survivors of the
Holocaust.
Jam Packed: The Challenge of Human Overpopulation.
1997. 30 min. VHS. Video Project. $79.95.
Overpopulation is probably the greatest problem
facing our world today. Alexandra Paul of Baywatch
narrates this look at environmental and ecological
issues and how they are affected by the consumerism
of our society.
Prejudice: The Monster Within. 1996. 30 min. VHS.
Knowledge Unlimited. $59.95 (closed-captioned)
Teenagers relate the ways they have experienced
prejudice in this video, which also surveys how
various groups have been persecuted -- from slavery
to Bosnia today. The study guide reinforces the
message of taking personal responsibility to combat
any form of prejudice.
Refusal Skills: Yes, You Can Say No. 1996. 25 min.
VHS. Learning Seed. $89.00 (closed captioned) Some
humorous mini-dramas and role plays before a live
audience teach teens how to say NO effectively and
mean it. The study guide also has good activities
and handouts.
Sex and Other Matters of Life and Death. 1996. 56
min. VHS. Cinema Guild. $295.00
The young actors of New York's STAR Theater,
recognized by the American Medical Association as
one of the nation's most innovative AIDS prevention
programs, take a humorous, frank, and very direct
approach to preventing pregnancy and disease in
teenagers. The fact that the daughter of the
company's leader is fighting her own life-and-death
stuggle with AIDS makes the video especially
poignant and powerful.
Teen Suicide: I Don't Really Want To Leave. 1996.
10 min. VHS. Lucerne Media. $195.00. Available in
Spanish. Dramatization of the feelings and
emotions of Sarah, a teen contemplating suicide.
Discussion guide included.
Triumph of the Nerds: Impressing Their Friends.
1996. 60 min. VHS. Ambrose Video. $99.95 (Volume
1 of a three-part set; the set is $275) This funny
video details how adolescent computer nerds Bill
Gates and Steve Jobs evolved from amateurs working
out of their bedrooms and garages to billionaires in
the PC industry they helped found. Based on the
book, Accidental Empires.
World War II. 1996. 35 min. VHS. Schlessinger
Video Productions. $39.95. Closed-captioned. (Part
of a twenty-part set, U.S. History Video Collection:
Origins to WWII. ($799 for the entire set.) The
origins and events of World War II come alive in
this video through actual newsreel footage.
Interviews with historians also show the effects
the war had on the American people. One study guide
covers the entire set.
distributors
Ambrose Video Publishing - Suite 2100, 28 West 44th
St., NY NY 10036 1-800-526-4663
Cinema Guild - 1697 Broadway, Suite 506, NY NY,
10019 1-800-723-5522
Grace Products - 1761 International Parkway, Suite
135, Richardson, TX 75081
1-800- 527-4014
Knowledge Unlimited - PO Box 52, Madison WI 53701
1-800-356-2303
Learning Seed - 330 Telser Road, Lake Zurich IL
60047 1-800-634-4941
Lucerne Media - 37 Ground Pine Road, Morris Plains,
NJ 07950 1-800-341-2293
RMS - 4908 Willow Pointe Lane, Virginia Beach, VA
23464 1-800-481-6293
Schlessinger Video Productions - Library Video
Company, PO Box 1100, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19110. 1-800-843-3620
Video Project - 200 Estates Drive, Ben Lomond, CA
95005 1-800-475-2638
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