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NOW ON HOME VIDEO: PUSHIN' FORWARD
Growing up poor and Latino, James Lilly was a gang member and drug dealer until, at fifteen, he was shot in the back and paralyzed. Today, he shares his story with inner city kids, and tells them about one thing that helped him move on - wheelchair racing. In Pushin' Forward he takes on the world's longest wheelchair race, from Fairbanks to Anchorage, Alaska, in six days!
Institutional price: $229.00
Home Video Price: $39.00
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Public Libraries
Fanlight is pleased to offer all public libraries the opportunity
to purchase any title in our collection for $89 – for discounts
of well over 50% off our usual prices. No expiration date, only
$89, every film, anytime. Register to claim your discount on all
of your future purchases: enter OFFER CODE: PL1001
on the Discounts and Specials
page of our website.
K-12 Educators and Administrators
We are also extending the $89 discount to K-12 schools,
teachers, and administrators. Our collection includes outstanding
documentaries in a variety of subject areas that will be of interest
to students and educators: autism, physical and developmental disabilities,
gender and sexuality, media literacy, parenting, teen depression
and other mental health issues, suicide, and many others. To purchase
any film for $89, enter OFFER CODE: SH1001 on the
Discounts and Specials
page of our website.
Some titles you may want to check out include:
Wipe Out,
narrated by an Olympic gold snowboarder, is a documentary that
tells the story of three young men living with permanent brain
damage from head injuries while pursuing extreme sports.
The Boy Inside
features 12-year-old Adam, who has Asperger syndrome, struggling
to find his place in school. He often says or does the wrong thing,
and finds himself misunderstood, isolated, and bullied. How
I Am (American Library Associations's 2009 Notable
Video for Adults) is another film about the day in the life a
child with Autism, and Two
Worlds - One Planet follows a group of students at
a school for children across the spectrum. Finally, Children
of the Stars examines what life is like for students
with Autism in China.
Awakening from Sorrow
documents the power to transform pain into action and to lift
the veil of repression that has gripped a generation of young
people orphaned by Argentina's 'Dirty War.'
Let Them Eat Cake is a timely and effective treatment
of the growing obesity epidemic in America, offering an unusual
— and unusually amusing — perspective on
the issue.
PicturePerfect
and Cut
are award-winning films exploring body image among teenage boys
and girls, and the damaging influence of mass media on their physical
and emotional health.
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