{"id":22323,"date":"2021-09-23T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=22323"},"modified":"2021-09-23T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T18:07:18","slug":"international-film-festival-includes-nlm-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2021\/09\/23\/international-film-festival-includes-nlm-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"International Film Festival Includes NLM Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sarah Eilers ~<\/em><\/p>\n

Coming up September 24-26, the Healthy Scepticism Film Festival<\/a>, a free virtual program \u00a0organised by the Wellcome Trust<\/a>, features a range of recent and historical films. The festival and the associated Healthy Scepticism project seek to understand and narrate the experiences of medicine\u2019s critics, sceptics, antagonists, and dispossessed, past and present, and to translate these into positive health care change. Many of the historical films to be discussed \u00a0are held by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and\/or presented in Medicine on Screen<\/em><\/a>, the NLM\u2019s curated portal to its historical audiovisual collections.<\/p>\n

The festival features an organizer and several speakers who know NLM collections well. Caitjan Gainty, historian of medicine and healthcare at King\u2019s College, London, and co-founder of the Healthy Scepticism project, is author of the 2019 Medicine on Screen<\/em> essay, A Bit of Hollywood in the Operating Room<\/a>. She has worked for the last year to pull the project and festival together and says about the topic, \u201cEspecially since the beginning of the pandemic, we\u2019ve begun to understand how important it is to take into account the views of those who are usually excluded from the mainstream narratives that saturate the debate around health and healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n

The festival includes a Short Films Competition, an Artists-in-Residence Showcase, and the premiere of The UTI Documentary<\/em> by Rita Conry, which tells the story of people living with acute, current or chronic UTIs, a condition that can be life-altering but is also routinely \u201cdisregarded, neglected, brushed over….\u201d There will also be screenings of The Pain of Others<\/em>, 2018, and Pink Ribbons, Inc.<\/em> a 2011 film which investigates the \u201cquestionable commingling of marketing and philanthropy\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking on the panel \u201cOur Favourite Historical Films\u201d are Oliver Gaycken, project consultant and essayist for Medicine on Screen<\/em>, David Cantor, formerly of the Office of NIH History and author of several Medicine on Screen<\/em> essays, and Angela Saward, who recently presented the NLM History Talk Peril in the Air<\/a> and contributed Air Pollution is a Human Problem<\/a> to Medicine on Screen<\/em>. \u00a0Jesse Olszynko-Gryn, the fourth speaker on that panel, is a future Medicine on Screen<\/em> essayist who will discuss the film Barefoot Doctors of Rural China<\/em><\/a>, ca. 1975, which NLM is currently digitizing.<\/p>\n

Festival panelists will discuss several historical films held by archives and libraries around the world, including the following which are available in NLM Digital Collections:<\/p>\n