National Public Health Week Film Festival April 6-11, 2009

5th Annual National Public Health Week Film Festival
April 6-10, 2009, 5:30 p.m. nightly

Family Fun Film Day
April 11, 10:30 a.m.

Mayo Memorial Auditorium
425 Delaware St. SE University of Minnesota, East Bank Campus
Free and open to the public

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Film Festival Coloring Contest

What is the color of public health?

Open to children age 12 and under, the contest will be judged by the National Public Health Week Film Festival planning committee. Entries must be postmarked by March 27.

Congratulations to our winners:

Emily Nachriener (4 & under category)
Ella Ugland (5-8 category)
Rachel Pederson (9-12 category)

They each received prize packets worth $35.

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Weeklong Sponsors:

SPH Student Senate

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Monday, April 6
PSA Award night, 5:30-6:15 p.m.
Short Films Night

Public health takes center stage in a variety of short films showcased on opening night. Plus, winners of the "It’s Global" Public Service Announcement contest will be screened.

Screening (in order of appearance):

Sari’s Mother. A woman deals with her son’s AIDS diagnosis and securing healthcare for him -- post Iraq war.

Haitian Hope. Discusses post-natural disaster recovery in Haiti and challenges to implementing health care after natural disasters--finding people, making sure they have housing and medications, etc.

Side Effects. Side Effects tells the story of Henry Burnbaum, an elderly man who starts acting strangely after his dog dies. His wife thinks he’s had a stroke, but it might be something even harder to diagnose...

Medical Mistakes, A Culture of Denial is about owning up to medical mistakes and includes a few U of M med students, a pilot from Northwest Airlines, and other Minnesotans.

Multicultural Health Storytelling Project. The City of Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support and its Urban Health Agenda Community Advisory Committee have piloted intergenerational storytelling as a new community engagement process to inform the Department’s policy and programmatic work. Beginning in Dec 2006, storytelling events were completed and videotaped in the following communities: African American, American Indian, Caucasian, Hmong, Latino, Somali & Vietnamese. The primary focus of the events was to tell us about a time when families/communities were healthy. The results of this work support the overarching need to shift traditional health paradigms focused on individuals and needs towards FAMILIES and CULTURAL ASSETS in order to eliminate health disparities.

Speakers/Panelists

John Finnegan, Jr., professor and dean, assistant vice president for Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Gretchen Musicant, commissioner, Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support
Tony LookingElk, community facilitator, and program officer with Otto Bremer Foundation
Farhiya Farah, community facilitator, and director, Health and Nutrition at Parents in Community Action Head Start in Minneapolis

Sponsors

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Tuesday, April 7
Water

Screening: Flow. Can anyone really own water? This award-winning documentary explores that question and more as it examines the world’s water crisis.

Speaker

Deb Swackhamer, professor, Environmental Chemistry, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Sponsors

Mississippi Market	MnTAP

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Wednesday, April 8
Public Health and War

Screening: War Dance. Children in a refugee camp in the war-torn country of Uganda find music and dance provide a salve for their souls as they compete in a national music contest.

Speaker

Rosana Dennis Hungerpiller Schaack, program manager and child protection officer, Samaritan’s Purse International Relief

Sponsors

Women Against Military Madness

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Thursday, April 9
Environment

Screening: King Corn. This entertaining and insightful documentary features two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives our fast food nation.

Speaker

David Wallinga, director, Food and Health Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Sponsors

Mississippi Market	MnTAP

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Friday, April 10
Sex Ed

Screening:

La Vida No es Justa. Produced in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Health and Neighborhood House for Minnesota’s Latina/Latino community.

Hababka kala durkinta carruurta (Translation: Child spacing methods: How modern contraceptives are safe, effective, and reversible) Produced by the Minnesota International Health Volunteers for the Somali community

Migration - a film produced and directed by Mira Nair, an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, on AIDS awareness in India.

Sex topics through the ages and cultures. See vintage sex ed shorts from around the world. Find out what Minnesotans think about sexual health.

• Ave you Got a Male Assistant Please Miss? (1973) ¿ 4 minutes (English)
• Sex: A Guide for the Young (1992) - 20 minutes (Danish)
• The People at No 19 (1949) ¿ 17 minutes (English)
• Sex Hygiene (1942) ¿ 20 minutes (US Army)

Speakers

Katie Gruner
Program Coordinator
Minnesota International Health Volunteers

Jenny Oliphant, M.P.H., Ed.D. Candidate
Community Outreach Coordinator
Healthy Youth Development-Prevention Research Center
University of Minnesota
Department of Pediatrics

Judy Ojeda
Health Access Program Manage
Neighborhood House

Sponsors

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Saturday, April 11
Family Fun Film Day, 10:30 a.m.
And PSA Contest Screenings, youth category at 1:30 p.m.; adult category at 3 p.m.

Introducing Family Fun Film Day will be Engineer Paul!

Health Teeth, 15 minutes

For strong and healthy teeth, you must take good care of them every day!

The Social Side of Health, 10 minutes

Humorous, animated health film about the importance of social belonging.

Jiminy Cricket: You and Your Food, 8 minutes

Jiminy Cricket shows the importance of proper nutrition and how the human body needs and uses food. Jiminy explains the importance of eating from the five food groups each day to keep your body healthy.

Jiminy Cricket: You and Your Sense of Smell and Taste, 8 minutes

Jiminy Cricket shows how taste and smell work together.

Journey of a Blob, 10 minutes

This classic, wordless film illustrates the water cycle and raises many questions about environmental responsibility and the consequences of our decisions.

Speaker (During Family Fun Film Day)

Engineer Paul, Choo Choo Bob’s Train Store

Sponsors

Wild Rumpus Bookstore in Mpls.
The Red Balloon Bookstore
Library Foundation of Hennepin County
Linden Hills Co-op & Linden Hills Natural Home
The Essence of Nonsense Ltd.
Auntie Em’s Bookstore