Women and Depression (Alex Richter, Zoe Grabinski and Jacalyn Dillon, 2007), running time: 7 minutes

Alex Richter, Zoe Grabinski, and Jacalyn Dillon are undergraduate students at the University at Albany. Their found footage film explores the way women's stereotypical roles create and fuel their depression. It examines the way society has made medication the solution to women's depression instead of analyzing and finding the cause of their condition (which is often unhappiness in their roles). The montage references a variety of films, TV specials, and commercials that portray men suppressing women and the improper treatment of the issue. It also addresses the growing use of medications. If women were treated with proper therapy to help them discover for themselves the root of their depression, would they realize that it's their unhappiness in their roles and break away? Is this what our society wants? Are psychologists and the pharmaceutical industry intentionally prescribing more medication to women so that they stay blinded to the reasons they are depressed?

Human Trafficking (Elise Bellefeuille and Adrienne Davis, 2007), running time: 8 minutes

Elise Bellefeuille and Adrienne Davis are undergraduate students at the University at Albany. Their film explores human trafficking, not only to inform audiences of this international problem, but also to inspire them to spread awareness and help in bringing this issue to an end. This short film incorporates statistics, maps, quotes, pictures, movie and television clips, as well as music. It presents information that discusses how women and children are lured into other countries, where trafficking is most prevalent, and how to prevent and stop the trafficking of humans.

Sex on the Beach: Tourism in Contemporary Advertisements (Sylvia Perez, 2007), running time: 20 minutes

Sylvia Perez is an MA student in Women's Studies at the University at Albany and currently works at NYSCADV (New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence). Her master's thesis project, Sex on the Beach, is a video montage that examines contemporary advertisements of Latin America, namely Brazil and the Dominican Republic, and cross analyzes these representations with colonial imagery. In examining these representations through four axes of oppression - class, race, gender and nation - as well as through a critical feminist gaze, the video exposes how tourism and sex tourism industries subliminally support international sex trafficking. Additionally, it explores how these industries have modified our understanding of the body of the ‘other,' which is often linked to beaches in contemporary tourist advertisements.