Deep Dish Cooks Up a Second Series

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Programs in this series

• A Dish Of Central America
  The goal of this video is to bring to light some of the popular misconceptions that people have about Central America. It brings together experpts to help people understand the various countries that make up the region.
• About Face
  This program documents the effects of war on those fight them, those who escape them and those who are its victims.
• Age Wise
  Older people are rarely seen on television. This video aims not only to redirect media focus on the elderly, but helps to bash the stereotypes that have become associated with them.
• Angry Initiatives, Defiant Stategies
  This video discusses the relationship between the American AIDS epidemic and the mainstream media. In particular it focuses the "Name Project" (a memorial quilt for those who have died of AIDS).
• Biting The Hand That Leads Us
  This video explores the way humor is used in social activism. It includes perfromances from a variety of comedy groups,including the Bread and Puppet Theatre, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, The Atomic Comics, Ladies Against Women and Teatro Campesino.
• Fighting for Our Lives and The Wrath of Grapes
  This two part video foucuses 1) on the pesticides sprayed on the fruit we eat, and 2) the history of the united farm workers.
• Good Things Come From Small Packages
  This video contrasts the lives of young people who express themselves on the youth produced, anti-consumerist TV show "To The Max", with the life of a young Mexican boy who can barely get enough to eat.
• Home Sweet Homefront
  This video both exposes the drastic living situations that people have faced due to Reagan year cut backs, and attempts to recreate the media image of a homeless person as someone with dignity and strength.
• Latino Images
  A compilation of video looking at the expectations, realities and loss that are part of the lives of recent Latin American immigrants. Produced by Yvette Nieves and the Latino Collaborative in association with Starfish Productions (NY, NY)
• Michael Harrington Looks At Democracy
  Why was the 1988 electorate at an all time low? Micheal Harrington, author of "The Other America", begins to de-mystify the American political process.
• People and the Land
  This video focuses on the environmental destruction that has occurred due to the farm crisis.
• Sopa De Videos
  LAVA is a unique project involving student edited tapes produced in Latin America. The tapes explore interconnections between history, politics, and culture of North, South and Central America.
• The 4th International Women's Day Video Festival
  This five part series explores various issues pertinent to women (work, family, etc.) It is also produced exclusively by women.
• The Border: Where Do you Draw the Line?
  This video describes the violence and harrassment experienced in many locations around the world: Northern Ireland, Panama, Mexico and the South Bronx, illustrating the arbitraty nature of "where the line is drawn".
• The Underground Voices of the Panamanian People
  A look at the US invasion of Panama, from the view of Panamanian citizens.
• Working Pictures
  This video explores the difficulties faced by the American labor movement, as corporate globalization takes hold.