Health & Wellness Films with Guest Jeni Starr (Part One)

04/02/21 • 38 min

BCFR Podcast – Show Notes

Kansas City Public Library - Waldo
Host: Buddy Hanson, Library Technical Assistant
Guest: Jeni Starr, Health & Wellness Specialist

TOPIC: Health & Self Care

FILMS - Jeni:

• Embrace, Taryn Brumfitt, 2016 (Australia)

Taryn Brumfitt, body image activist, travels the world talking to experts, women in the street and well-known personalities about the alarming rates of body image issues that are seen in people of all body types.

FILMS - Buddy:

• Forks Over Knives, Lee Fulkerson, 2011 (USA)

A study to explore the dramatic shift of serious health conditions through simple changes in diet.

Notes / Reference:

• Quinoa

• Health At Every Size

• Meals in Minutes

• KCPL: Health & Wellness Events

CREDITS

◦ Waldo Branch Manager, Jim Poplau

◦ Digital Branch Manager, David LaCrone

◦ Graphic Designer, Levi Hoffmeier

◦ Editing, Buddy Hanson and David LaCrone

◦ Music, Franny Finstrom Clark

BCFR Podcast – Show Notes

Kansas City Public Library - Waldo
Host: Buddy Hanson, Library Technical Assistant
Guest: Jeni Starr, Health & Wellness Specialist

TOPIC: Health & Self Care

FILMS - Jeni:

• Embrace, Taryn Brumfitt, 2016 (Australia)

FILMS - Buddy:

• Forks Over Knives, Lee Fulkerson, 2011 (USA)

A study to explore the dramatic shift of serious health conditions through simple changes in diet.

Notes / Reference:

• Quinoa

• Health At Every Size

• Meals in Minutes

• KCPL: Health & Wellness Events

CREDITS

◦ Waldo Branch Manager, Jim Poplau

◦ Digital Branch Manager, David LaCrone

◦ Graphic Designer, Levi Hoffmeier

◦ Editing, Buddy Hanson and David LaCrone

◦ Music, Franny Finstrom Clark

Previous Episode

Guest Martin Howard from 'California Typewriter'

Typewriter enthusiast Martin Howard, one of the subjects of Doug Nichol's 2016 film, California Typewriter, dials in to talk with Buddy. They discuss collecting, analog versus digital technology, and what it's like being filmed for a documentary.
FILM
• California Typewriter, Doug Nichol, 2016 (USA)
Documentary about mechanical/analog typewriter technology, history and culture
REFERENCES
• Antique Typewriters, Martin Howard's website
• Jeremy Mayer, portfolio website featuring typewriter assemblage sculpture
• Rotten Tomatoes, film review
• Telluride Film Festival, the venue where California Typewriter was first shown to the public
• Sholes and Glidden typewriter, a rare and historically important typewriter
• The Secret Life of Machines, British TV show about the history of household and office machinery
• Connections, British TV show about the history and science of invention
CREDITS
◦ Waldo – Branch Manager, Jim Poplau
◦ Digital Branch Manager, David LaCrone
◦ Graphic Designer, Levi Hoffmeier
◦ Editing, Buddy Hanson and David LaCrone
◦ Music, Franny Finstrom Clark
◦ Recorded in Kansas City, Missouri, 2020

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Health & Wellness Films with Guest Jeni Starr (Part Two)

Enjoy the second half of Buddy and Jeni's discussion of films about health and wellness topics. This episode features films about two important and difficult topics: end of life decisions and dementia.

FILMS - Jeni:

• Defining Hope – Exploring End of Life Care, Kino Lorber, 2017 (USA)

An exploration of palliative care, end of life issues, hospice care and what 'quality of life' really means. Provides a hopeful message about patients making choices about care when faced with life-threatening illness.

FILMS - Buddy:

• Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory, Michael Rossato-Bennett, 2014 (USA)

A case study demonstrating the therapeutic power of music on elderly patients.

Notes / Reference:

• Freegal

• Hoopla

• Kanopy

• KCPL: Calendar

• KCPL: Health & Wellness Events

• Music and Memory

• Alive Inside

CREDITS