Feature Stream: Elf-Man

 "An Elf is left behind by Santa to help rescue the Harper family from a lousy Christmas. The Elf and the family get more than they bargained for, as the kids help the Elf discover his special powers and true identity as a budding superhero."

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Feature Stream: Xmas Without China

"Exploring the intersection of consumerism and immigration in American culture, XMAS WITHOUT CHINA is an intimate portrait of families wrestling with our drive to consume cheap products, but also with our desire for human connection and a sense of who we are in a fast-changing world.

Pride and mischief inspire Chinese immigrant Tom Xia to challenge the Americans in his Southern California suburb to celebrate Christmas without any Chinese products. With deep ties to his extended family back home, Tom is incensed by how he considers China is misunderstood, particularly by the American media. But he gets more than he bargains for when he meets the Joneses, a young family trying to keep their children safe as a wave of Chinese toy recalls forces them to have their son tested for lead poisoning."

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Feature Stream: Santa's Workshop

"Santa's Workshop takes you to the real world of China’s toy factories. Low labor costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of our toys are made in China. But this industry takes its toll on the workers and on the environment. Workers tell us about long working hours, low wages and dangerous workplaces. Those who protest or try to organize trade unions risk imprisonment. The Swedish buyers blame bad conditions on the Chinese suppliers. But they say that increasingly hard competition gives them no option. Who should we believe? And what can you do to bring about a fairer and more humane toy trade?"

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Feature Stream: The Humans

"A family gathers for Thanksgiving in their daughter's apartment. Amidst the warmth and humor of the holiday, the tight-knit family tries to hold together in the face of an anxious and uncertain future. Based on the Tony Award-winning play also by Stephen Karam."

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Feature Stream: Aboriginal Architecture

"Aboriginal Architecture offers a fascinating in-depth look into the diversity of North American Native architecture. Featuring expert commentary and stunning imagery, this program provides a virtual tour of seven Aboriginal communities — Pueblo, Mohawk, Inuit, Crow, Navajo, Coast Salish and Haida -- revealing how each is actively reinterpreting and adapting traditional forms for contemporary purposes."

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Feature Stream: Lakota Nation VS. United States

"A provocative, visually stunning testament to a land and a people who have survived removal, exploitation and genocide – and whose best days are yet to come."

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Feature Stream: Our Story

"Over 90 percent of the available lands in the Greater Chaco region of the Southwest have already been leased for oil and gas extraction. OUR STORY documents the ongoing Indigenous-led work to protect the remaining lands that are untouched by oil and gas, as well as the health and well being of communities surrounded by these extractive industries.

OUR STORY emerges from a long-standing collaboration between local Diné leaders in the Greater Chaco region, Pueblo organizers, and a small team of community-engaged media makers to share the story of the Indigenous-led fight to protect this sacred landscape."

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Feature Stream: Dracula (1931)

"Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night."

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Feature Stream: The Cabin In The Woods

"When five college friends arrive at a remote forest cabin for a little vacation, little do they expect the horrors that await them. One by one, the youths fall victim to backwoods zombies, but there is another factor at play. Two scientists are manipulating the ghoulish goings-on, but even as the body count rises, there is yet more at work than meets the eye."

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Feature Stream: American Psycho

"A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies."

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"A rich Wall Street player (Christian Bale) basks in his late-1980s yuppie lifestyle, but behind his slick appearance lurks a murderous monster."

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Feature Stream: The Hate U Give

"Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right."

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Feature Stream: Fahrenheit 451 (2018)

"Adaptation of Ray Bradbury's dystopian 1953 novel about a brutal totalitarian society in which books are not only banned, but burned, and all history, art, photos and facts are deleted or altered."

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Feature Stream: Dolores

"Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century - and she continues the fight to this day, at 87. With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother to eleven, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one's life to social change."

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Feature Stream: Missile

"MISSILE follows the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where Air Force officers are trained to man the Launch Control Centers for the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. 

Sequences include discussion of the moral and military issues of nuclear war; the arming, targeting and launching of the missile; codes; communications; protection against terrorist attack; emergency procedures; staff meetings and tutorial sessions."

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Feature Stream: Zero Dark Thirty

"A CIA agent leads a 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden that reveals the cruelty of the War on Terror. Just when it seems that all hope of finding bin Laden has faded, an old clue leads her team right to his doorstep."

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Feature Stream: Earth Days

"This program traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s to its moment of triumph in 1970 with the original Earth Day and to its status as a major political force in America. Drawing heavily on eyewitness testimony and a wealth of never before seen archival footage, Director Robert Stone examines the revolutionary achievements - and missed opportunities - of a decade of groundbreaking activism. The result is both a poetic meditation on man's complex relationship with nature and a probing analysis of past responses to environmental crisis."

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Feature Stream: Kiss The Ground

 

"A revolutionary group of activists, scientists, farmers, and politicians band together in a global movement of "Regenerative Agriculture" that could balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world"

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Feature Stream: 10 Things I Hate About You

 

"Cameron James is a new student at Padua High School, where he immediately falls in love with the beautiful Bianca Stratford. When he tells his new friend, Michael Eckman, about his crush, Michael informs Cameron that the Stratford sisters are notorious for not being allowed to date. Bianca's older sister, Katarina (Kat) Stratford, is a rebellious and argumentative feminist whom most people at the school describe as a "heinous bitch."

Cameron poses as a French tutor to get closer to Bianca, who tells Cameron that she is only allowed to date once Kat starts dating. Cameron and Michael hatch a plan to pay somebody to take out Kat so that Cameron can take out Bianca. They decide on Patrick Verona, an older, intimidating, and mysterious senior who was rumored to have served time in prison. In order to get the money to pay Patrick, Cameron and Michael convince the affluent and self-absorbed school pretty boy, Joey Donner, that he can take out Bianca if he gives them the money for their plan."

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Susan Lindahl Wins University Library Barnard Award 2023

Susan Lindahl is this year’s recipient of the UW-Stout University Library Barnard Outstanding Service Award. Susan has worked for the University Library for 17 years, serving in many different roles. Currently she is the Library’s Assistant Director, Access Services Manager, Cataloger, Copyright Officer, and Building Manager. Nominators described Susan as being “student focused”, “an advocate for library spaces” including securing new carpet for the first floor, “an important leader on the issue of book challenges in the community of Menomonie”, and “a quiet but effective leader and advocate for the library.” Susan’s nominations reflected the way she priorities students and her ability to collaborate across campus to make the library accessible to all. A reception and award ceremony to honor Susan will be held on Wednesday, April 26th at 10:00 am in the Library’s Educational Material Center, located on the second floor of the Robert S. Swanson Library & Learning Center. All are invited to attend.

The Barnard Award was established to recognize a library employee who has achieved exceptional accomplishments in serving the informational needs of students, faculty, and staff. The award is supported by the David P. Barnard Family Endowment and the Stout Foundation. David Barnard, retired dean of Learning Resources, and his wife Kay established the award in 2000.

Feature Stream: Tiger

  

"HBO Sports and Jigsaw Productions present an illuminating portrait of global golf icon Tiger Woods, charting his rise, fall, and epic comeback with unprecedented depth and detail. The two-part documentary offers a rare glimpse into Tiger’s unmatched dedication to – and obsession with – the sport, which helped skyrocket him to unparalleled heights as both a golf and cultural icon. 

Combining never-before-seen footage with clips from Tiger’s indomitable reign on the professional circuit and revealing interviews with those who know him best, the two-parter also highlights how the ambitious golfer’s pursuit of greatness, coupled with staggering pressure from his father Earl Woods and society-atlarge, contributed to a self-destructive, public spiral before Woods was ultimately able to make a comeback. Unflinching and nuanced, TIGER offers an intimate look at a man who – beyond the fans, sponsors, and outsized expectations – is imperfect and, above all human."

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Feature Stream: Parasite

 

"Greed and class discrimination threaten the relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan in Bong Joon Ho's darkly hilarious modern fairytale.

Winner of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Film at the Academy Awards. Winner of Best Foreign Motion Picture – Foreign Language at the Golden Globe Awards. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival."

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Feature Stream: The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit Up the World

"The first woman to be awarded a Nobel prize, Marie Curie's story is as remarkable in the modern day as it was last century. She became a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip fascinated by her groundbreaking discoveries at a time when a woman’s place was in the home, not the laboratory. A BBC Production."

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Feature Stream: Women in Chemistry

"Women in Chemistry: Lessons from Life and the Laboratory profiles the journeys of eight remarkable women whose careers in chemistry have made a significant impact on our world. "

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Feature Stream: Daughter of a Lost Bird

"“Lost birds” – a term for Native children adopted out of their tribal communities. Right after the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 became the law of the land, Kendra Mylnechuk Potter was adopted into a white family and raised with no knowledge of her Native parentage. This beautiful and intimate film follows Kendra on her journey to find her birth mother April, also a Native adoptee, and return to her Lummi homelands in Washington State. With a sensitive yet unflinching lens, director Brooke Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish) documents Kendra and April as they connect with relatives and navigate what it means to be Native, and to belong to a tribe from the outside looking in. Along the way, Kendra uncovers generations of emotional and spiritual beauty and pain and comes to the startling realization that she is a living legacy of U. S. assimilationist policy. By sharing a deeply personal experience of inherited cultural trauma, the film opens the door to broader and more complicated conversations about the erasure of Native culture and questions of identity surrounding adoption."

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Feature Stream: Speak Up

"Women of African descent converse about what it means to be a woman today and belong to the Afro community. By sharing their experiences and aspirations for the future, they SPEAK UP and take control again of their own representation."

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Feature Stream: Black Art: In The Absence of Light

"At the heart of this feature documentary is the groundbreaking Two Centuries of Black American Art exhibition curated by the late African American artist and scholar David Driskell in 1976. Held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this pioneering exhibit featured more than 200 works of art by 63 artists and cemented the essential contributions of Black artists in America in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibit would eventually travel to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Brooklyn Museum. The film shines a light on the exhibition’s extraordinary impact on generations of African American artists who have staked a claim on their rightful place within the 21st-century art world."

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Feature Stream: Making Black America

 

"As Black people fought for full citizenship, hour one explores how free African Americans exercised their self-determination by building communities, establishing schools, and creating associations that would become the foundational pillars of Black America. Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the organizations, networks and artistic impression created by and for Black people."

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Feature Stream: Harriet

 

"The incredible true story of one of America's greatest heroes, Harriet Tubman. From her escape from slavery to the dangerous missions she led, setting free hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad."

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