Family Diversity Films Streaming to Your Computer

Now available for streaming to your computer: many of the the award-winning films about diversity from Groundspark and Academy Award-winning director Debra Chasnoff. (Here’s my interview with Chasnoff about It’s STILL Elementary, her documentary about teaching LGBT inclusion in schools.)

The films have been available for home use on DVD’s that run $30-50 each. A good investment in a worthy cause, IMHO—but if your financial situation makes you balk at that, you can now purchase a 90-day license to stream them over your computer for only $4.99.

The streamable films are:

• That’s a Family! A film for kids about family diversity. It was banned by a school board in New Jersey for including LGBT families, so you know it has to be good.
• Let’s Get Real. Kids speak up about bullying.
• It’s STILL Elementary – Talking About Gay Issues in School. Aimed at educators and parents, not children.

What you don’t get with the streamed versions, though, are the discussion and teaching guides that come with the DVD’s. (You can buy them separately, but it really pays just to get the DVD package at that point.) Still, if you have a personal interest in any of these, or want to screen them for possible institutional purchase by your school, religious group, etc., streaming may be the way to go.

(I haven’t tried the streaming myself, though, so I can’t answer any technical questions about it.)