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Life 6 Series
Looking For My Gypsy Roots

Hungarian film director Arpád faces a dilemma - should he track down his Roma father?


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SDH Captioned>>

Produced by Television Trust for the Environment
Series Editor: Steve Bradshaw
Series Consultant: Jenny Richards
Produced with support from: The European Commission, OXFAM-Novib, UN Population Fund (UNFPA), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), The World Bank, Decade of Roma Inclusion, Open Society Institute





Radio C, the Roma station in Budapest, has stopped broadcasting news in Romany. The reason? - there aren't enough Romany words for many 21st century concepts. Among the missing words is 'globalization.' And yet few people in the world are having more difficulty confronting globalization than the Roma in Hungary. Under-employed, under-educated and often alienated, they feel excluded from the young democracy's growing prosperity. And yet many Hungarians feel the Roma have bought this exclusion on themselves.

Roma make up a large percentage of Hungary's prison population, and have few leaders who have been successful in the wider world and are prepared to stand up for their Roma, or 'gypsy', inheritance. Radio C is in District 8 - informally known as Gypsy Harlem. It's long been the center of Budapest's gypsy culture, known across the world for its musicians. But 'gypsy' artists here face a dilemma - if they sell themselves as gypsies, they're regarded as quaint representatives of an ethnic minority. In the words of Roma writer Andrjz Mirja, the dilemma for the Roma is "how to be a minority but still be equal."

In Escape from Gypsy Harlem Arpád Bogdán, a prize-winning Roma filmmaker ('Boldog új élet - 'Happy New Life'), describes how he and his friends have faced this dilemma in their working, and personal, lives, and takes us on a tour of Gypsy Harlem, The Jungle - an even tougher neighborhood in Budapest - and the more tranquil Rose Hill, where he now lives, looking for answers to the question of how to escape the gypsy artist cliché in a globalized world.

The other titles in the series are:

1. Edge Of Islam - Three Muslim students face a choice between their faith and their future.

2. Castro Or Quit - Two young doctors in Venezuela have to decide whether to leave the country or stay with their patients.

3. No Country For Young Girls? - A young Indian woman has to choose - stay with a husband who doesn't want female children, or make it on her own.

4. The Unforgiven - Should General Butt Naked (née Joshua Blahyi) - now a Christian pastor - be forgiven for his role in Liberia's horrific civil war?

6. The Dilemma Of The White Ant - Dominic Ongwen is both a victim and alleged perpetrator of LRA war crimes. Should he face an international court?

7. Three Sisters - Eritrea's women fought in the war; should they now liberate themselves from harmful traditional practices?

8. The Pied Piper Of Eyasi - The Hadza are among Africa's last hunter gatherers - should they follow charismatic Baallow into the modern world?

9. The Prince - A young Pakistani landowner chooses between trying to implement the MDGs in the village that his family owns, and a quiet life.

10. Running On Empty - Highlights the plight of two young mothers - one in South Wales and the other in Northern Ethiopia.

11. Collision Course - Reviews the positive steps being taken in India and Brazil to confront the serious public health issue presented by traffic accidents.



Grade Level: 7-12, College, Adult
US Release Date: 2008     Copyright Date: 2008
DVD ISBN: 1-59458-812-0



Reviews
"Life 6 is a wonderfully educational series that presents the viewers with the dilemmas faced by specific individuals in the socio-historical and economic context of their communities in the midst of an increasingly globalized world. The tremendous value of this series is that, in the brief thirty minutes that each episode lasts, it captures the complexities of the lives of those in it as they face Western influence that force them to reassert, defend, or challenge their local and/or individual identities, cultures, governance, wealth distribution, and practices of achieving justice and reconciliation--to name a few...Life 6 represents these issues in an objective and analytical way that will--without question--lead into a discussion and debate about them by academics and lay audiences alike."
Aniuska Luna, African Peace and Conflict Network

"A well-crafted and heartwarming film and is certainly recommended especially for school and public libraries."
Justin Cronise, SUNY Buffalo, Educational Media Reviews Online


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DVD Features
includes full accessibility through closed captions for the hard-of-hearing and verbal descriptions for those with visual problems.

Links
www.tve.org (The producer's web site)
www.tve.org/lifeonline/archive.cfm (Producer's resources)


Subjects
Anthropology
Ethics
Europe
Geography
Globalization
Human Rights
Millennium Development Goals
Race and Racism
Racism
Social Justice
Social Psychology
Sociology
United Nations
Women's Studies


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Suspino: A Cry for Roma (Short Version)
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Roma Rights
Breaking the cycle of Roma poverty and persecution.

Life
30-part series that looks at the effect of globalization on individuals and communities around the world.

City Life
22-part series examining the effect of globalization on people and cities worldwide.

Life 3
A 12-part series about Globalization and its effect on ordinary people and communities around the world.

Life 4
A 27-part series about global efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Life 5
A new 13-part series about globalization and the UN Millennium Development Goals.


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