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Yeah You Rite!

The culture of New Orleans represents the mixing of many rich traditions: French, Spanish, African, Irish, Italian. At the heart of this unique culture lie its speechways, the subject of Yeah You Rite!, a close-up video profile of a single language community. New Orleans English has been influenced by the city's rich and varied history, leaving it with dozens of unique words and phrases that all New Orleanians understand but which frequently baffle visitors: words like "lagniappe", "bobo" and "neutral ground" as well as hard-to-translate expressions such as "king cake" or "suck the heads and squeeze the tips" (the proper way to eat crawfish). Yeah You Rite! is a spicy and colorful tribute to this unique dialect.

Yellow Fever

A love story set in 90s London, following the life of Monty, a gay Chinese anglophile, desperately seeking his ?white knight?.

Yellowstone's Burning Question

An exploration of the natural and scientific response to the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park. Broadcast nationally by PBS on NOVA.

Yidl in the Middle: Growing Up Jewish in Iowa

56 min.
In this warm, funny film, filmmaker Marlene Booth provides a portrait of dual identity in America: someone who must balance being different with wanting to fit in. Through home movies, conversations with old friends, and her 30th high school reunion, Booth explores complex issues of identity, assimilation, and difference and what it means to be caught between two cultures. Sure to provoke discussion about insider/ outsider status and belonging in America.

Yield to Total Elation: The Life and Art of Achilles Rizzoli

50 min.
By deftly weaving Rizzolis words, archival footage, photos and evocative present-day scenes of San Franciscos historic architecture, YIELD TO TOTAL ELATION tells the story of Rizzolis life and his work an exaltation of architecture as pleasure, as memorial, as redemption.

Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven

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Based on the 1851 diary of a California militiaman, Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven looks back on the conquest of this primeval wilderness more than a century ago. At the same time, the film looks at Yosemite today - a national treasure sagging under the weight of three million visitors a year. The most beautiful valley in the world, is seen through the eyes of those who struggle day after day to preserve it - the rangers, trail builders, firefighters and naturalists and from the perspective of the backpackers, rock climbers, tourists and backcountry skiers, who come to revel in its sheer ageless beauty. The result is a remarkable vision of Yosemity -- past, present and future.
Narrated and Executive Produced by actor Robert Redford.
Considers the conquest of this primeval wilderness over 150 years ago and looks at Yosemite today through the eyes of those to preserve it and come to visit it.

You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei)

The pain and sorrow of the Nazi concentration camps become a human reality in this powerful film about the camps' liberation. Focusing on the personal remembrances of four American soldiers who participated in the liberation of the death camps and a woman who survived several years of internment, You Are Free combines personal stories with archival footage of the Holocaust to record the horror and human compassion of the time.

The participants include Rabbi Herschel Schacter, who served as a chaplain in the U.S. Third Army; Dr. Leon Bass, a former staff sergeant; John Connors, one of the first American soldiers to enter the concentration camps; and intelligence agent Kurt Klein and his wife, Gerda, whom he met when he helped free her and the group of women with whom she was imprisoned. Describing their thoughts and feelings during those days, and for many years after, these five individuals offer and invaluable account of an extraordinary moment in history.
The pain and sorrow of the Nazi concentration camps become a human reality in this powerful film about the camps' liberation. Interviews with American liberation soldiers, a woman who survived the camps, and archival footage.

Young Aspirations/ Young Artists

32 min./56 min.
The young artists of YA/YA paint true stories about their lives, and create murals, fine art furniture, poetry and rap music that speak out on racism and values. A powerful case for what happens when a great teacher helps young people find their voices.

Young Rebels

2005, 70 Min.
Young Rebels follows five Cuban hip-hop groups and two producers over the course of a Havana summer. Battling onstage or at home, the characters personal travels collide in a summer of explosive concerts, intense debate, unbearable heat and rising tensions as government agencies begin to institutionalize hip-hops street roots.

Your Options for Pain Relief in Childbirth

An entertaining and informative look at the range of options available including their pros and cons.
An entertaining and informative look at the options available for pain management including their pros and cons and the roles of the various health professionals involved.

Your Children Come Back to You

A film by Alile Sharon Larkin , 1979, 27 min., BW
Alile Sharon Larkin's first film is a contemporary allegory about values and assimilation. The film literalizes the meaning of a "mother country" by m...

Your Kiss

Set to a beautiful, swooning 1940?s song by Dorothy Lamour, Your Kiss is shot on the rooftop of a Mission district residence in San Francisco.  With a cast of local gay men the film?s backdrop is a stunning vista of such landmarks as Twin Peaks, Potrero Hill, Bernal Heights and the Bay.

Your Name in Cellulite

A film by Gail Noonan , 1995, 6 min., Color
A wickedly funny satire about the disparity between a woman's natural beauty and the ideal promoted by the mega-billion dollar advertising industry, t...

#907 Youth Against Meth

Meth use among teens is not just a serious issue in the mid-west and western states. With wider availability, it is now spreading across the country. This program visits Montana to see how The Meth Project was able to reduce meth usage by 63%. We also meet two ex-users who give frank and moving accounts of how their lives were nearly destroyed by the drug. Based on the Not Even Once theme, the media ad blitz was created with input from teens, who go on to own the campaign. We follow them as they create monumental artwork that covers public spaces in Paint the State. Then, to ensure the message continues, they generate widespread participation in a March Against Meth that successfully petitions state legislators at the capitol for funding. The teens passion and creativity are an inspiration, and the project has been replicated by seven other states. This program clearly shows the dangers of meth and how use can be prevented.

Yudie

20 min.
A film about independence, agin, and the immigration experience

Yumi Yet

In Melanesian Pidgin, Yumi Yet is a rallying cry meaning Just Us. This beautiful film captures the exuberant celebration that took place in Papua New Guinea during the nation's independence festivities in 1975. Three million people, spread over hundreds of islands and speaking seven hundred different languages, were faced with the prospect of becoming a nation. The country prepared to elect its own leaders, join the United Nations, and take its place in a fast-changing world.

A radio broadcast proclaims: Proper dress for the occasion will be long-sleeved white shirts and black trousers for the men, the women's clothes should complement the men's. This pompous dictume is cheerfully ignored -- bright paint, feathers and flowers make their appearance, palm-frond skirts and colorful masks are the order of the day. The spirit of celebration runs high. Only a few dissent: a grumbling rainmaker declares he will spoil the day by bringing thunderstorms to muddey the proceedings. A brass band rehearsaes military marches. Uniformed dignitaries and foreign ambassadors spill out of plances and the ceremonies begin, with Prince Charles on hand to bless the proceedings. Yumi Yet uses music, voices, radio broadcasts and found imagery to fasion a witty portrait of the country's Independence Day, as traditional tribal customs jostle with the paraphernalia of British and Australian colonialism to create a scene of surprising juxtapositions.

On Independence Day, despite the rainmaker's success in producing a tropical downpour, the flag of the infant nation is raised for the first time and, despite the formality of the official proceedings, the mood is unmistakably one of gaiety and optimism.

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Beautiful film captures the exuberant celebration that took place in Papua New Guinea during the nations independence festivities in 1975.

Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice

A videotape by Pat Saunders and Rea Tajiri , 1994, 57 min., Color
Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American woman who has lived in Harlem for more than 40 years with a long history of activism on a wide range of issues. ...