A New York video firm releases innovative, quality film material about health care and other social issues.

Fanlight Productions would appear to work in an impossibly tiny niche: documentaries and DVDs about health care, disabilities, and workplace issues. Yet the company has been going strong for over 30 years and has nearly 300 titles to its name.

Hmmm, perhaps this isn’t such a “tiny niche.” Someone must be financing and purchasing titles such as Code Grey: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing, which actually got an Academy Award nomination.

Fanlight has produced a number of documentaries about cross-cultural issues in health care, such as Community Voices, which explores ”cross-cultural care through cancer,” or the four-part series Worlds Apart, which presents four different cases where culture and health care meet.

Unfortunately for the curious viewer, the products are pricey: a single DVD with less than an hour of material runs in the hundreds of dollars, with one-day rental possible for $60.00.

From reading summaries of these works, however, I have no doubt they are of the highest possible quality. Many have won prizes, and some have been created by the country’s top-notch medical centers.

A quick look at the company’s new releases will definitely pique the interest of documentary fans, or those interested in the state of health care both in the USA and worldwide.

Betty Carlson

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