Tuesday, December 26, 2006

A Mind of Her Own (Synopsis)

A Mind of Her Own (Synopsis)

Video available here: http://one.revver.com/watch/95653/flv/affiliate/28779

Distributed by NLNtv.com

At the age of ten, Sophie is already a talented young gymnast. When Sophie's father, Richard, undergoes emergency heart surgery, Sophie is very distressed and determines to become a doctor. However, Sophie is not doing very well at school and her mother notices that she uses every trick in the book to avoid going to school. Even when she is at school, Sophie avoids the periodic reading tests like the plague using inventive excuses to avoid doing them but one day she does have a reading test and it is apparent that her reading ability is far behind the rest of the class. The teacher tells her she must try harder if she really wants to be a doctor.

Some years later, Sophie is at secondary school. She has learned to deal with her academic failure and has reinvented herself as a very well turned out young woman. She is still struggling at school but remains determined to realise her ambition of becoming a doctor. Her schoolmates continue to tease her, now saying that she is trying so hard to get a boy friend but doesn't realise they want a girl with a brain, not a bimbo.

For a few weeks, Sophie has a supply teacher, Peter, who suggests she is tested to see why she has so much trouble reading and it is discovered that she is severely dyslexic and, to help her read better, she is prescribed glasses with red lenses. Her classmates mock her and tease her even more now but one of them, Becky, does not and they become good friends.

Sophie's continuing success at gymnastics leads her to be entered for the national championships but this is overshadowed by the collapse of her father¹s business after which the family have to leave their big house and move to rented accommodation. Sophie has to start having free school meals and the ridicule of her class mates continues with renewed enthusiasm.

To make things even worse, Sophie is told she has to give up gymnastics because her back can¹t take any more. It is the one thing she is good at and she is very distressed but she renews her determination to become a doctor and starts to study hard.

After receiving poor GCSE results and delivering a poor performance at the end of her first year at A level, Sophie¹s head of year suggests she should consider following a less academic course. She decides to leave and joins best friend Becky who is studying part time at a sixth form college to achieve her ambition of becoming a physiotherapist.

Whilst at college, Sophie becomes reacquainted with Peter who teaches there. He is very supportive of Sophie¹s ambition to become a doctor and encourages her in her dream.

Whilst studying for her A levels, Sophie works in the A&E department of the local hospital where, one day, a drug addict patient removes the drip needle from her arm and sticks it into Sophie. Sophie is rushed to the hospital pharmacy and prescribed a combination of very strong anti-viral drugs. These make her very ill and she is off work and college for some time. During this period Peter visits her and tutors her so that she does not fall behind with her studies and a platonic relationship develops between them.

Eventually, Sophie gets an interview at a medical school but they refuse her saying she should take a related degree course first and then maybe she will be able to transfer to medicine. Sophie is disappointed but continues to work hard and her A level results are good enough to get her onto the Biomedical Science course.

Peter's ongoing support encouragement eventually leads to him and Sophie falling in love and after a year on her course in Edinburgh she transfers to Leeds and they get married.

Sophie is spotted by Harry, one of her professors, as being particularly bright and dedicated and he offers her work in the summer helping with his research into post trauma regeneration of the spinal cord. She proves to be very good at this and the results of her work are presented at an international conference on the subject.

Despite being expected to get a first class degree and her good research work and her hospital experience, as she nears the end of her course and applies to medical schools, Sophie is again turned down by them all. Her dream has finally come to an end. She will never be a doctor.

Throughout all this Sophie has maintained regular contact with her friend, Becky, who is now a qualified physiotherapist working with paralysed people.

At her graduation, her professor comes up to her and tells her that he would like her to come and work with him and do a PhD. She is delighted and accepts.

Some time later, Sophie, as part of her research is conducting clinical trials of a new treatment for damage to the spinal cord. The treatment has resulted from a discovery made by her and developed by the research team of which she is part.

At an international conference, Sophie is at the podium presenting the results of her clinical trials which have proved very successful. Her work and that of the team have resulted in a number of paraplegics being given treatment that has enabled them to walk again.

Sophie's husband, Peter, is in the front row of the audience and as she sits down after her presentation, he stands and applauds loudly. The rest of the people in the conference also stand and applaud. Sophie is astounded by the response but when Becky comes walking down the aisle with her patient, the one who participated in the trials, the tears start to flow. The man climbs the steps onto the platform and kisses her and thanks her. At last Sophie is vindicated - she may not have her ambition to become a doctor but she has helped to heal people with terrible injuries and in the process has healed herself.

Distributed by NLNtv.com

New Online Video

NLN has now available online an English language version of a classic video from the Bible Stories series. It is called Gideon. It is available here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?7nyxewynymm

For more information about programming for TV broadcasts be sure to visit http://NLNtv.com

New Titles from NLN

NLN has a number of new sports titles available. It also has some new drama and documentary material. Checkout http://NLNtv.com for the newest material.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

TV MEN, Gjilan, Kosovo Broadcast Schedule

TV MEN - Gjilan, Kosovo

TV MEN is a broadcaster in, Kosovo, Gjilan. TV MEN receives programming from
NLNtv.com





Several programs are scheduled for broadcast in Q01 2007. http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajk5qsfxbr5c_519pd4qr

Monday, December 11, 2006

Jonah and the Big Fish

Jonah and the Big Fish is now available.






This is a classic from the 1950s, available for TV broadcast from NLNtv.com

Thursday, December 07, 2006

NLN has new sports titles

NLN has added some new sports titles. You can find them here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=piKge6xFThkM3DZnQXk_VTw

As always, visit NLNtv.com for access to the growing database of programs available for international broadcast.

We also have some program samples available online. Here are a few of them you can have a look at:

Jonah and the Big Fish (Classic Video from the 1950s): http://one.revver.com/watch/111745/format/flv/affiliate/28779

Mind of Her Own trailer (Feature Film):
http://one.revver.com/watch/95653/format/flv/affiliate/28779

Robson Miguel Guitar Trailer
http://one.revver.com/watch/68833/format/flv/affiliate/28779

Thursday, November 09, 2006

A Mind of Her Own Trailer

NLNtv.com has acquired a new title called "A Mind of Her Own". The trailer is now available here: http://one.revver.com/videos/watch/95653

It is a feature from Owen Carey Jones about a girl who faces great educational challenges and rises above the challenge.

More info about other NLNtv.com progamming is as always available at http://NLNtv.com

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

NLN Video RSS Feed

There is a new RSS feed for NLN videos posted on Google:

http://video.google.com/videofeed?type=search&q=nlntv&num=10%26output=rss

To get the results in a format readable by humans save this link:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=nlntv

Monday, May 29, 2006

NLNtv Video Trailers

NLNtv Video Trailers - new ones have been posted.


Trailers can be seen directly here for a few:




The Prize:






Bad Idea



You can also subscribe to the RSS feed here.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Google Video (Beta) - Video Upload Program

New Video Posted about Côte d'Ivoire and the World Cup 2006:




NLNtv.com can offer TV licenses to this title. This is just a short clip of the entire program, which also includes, amongst other things, stories about Korea, the United Kingdom and Brazil.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Friday, April 21, 2006

NLN International Trailers

Here is a place to view some NLN international trailers is several languages right in this window:









Go here if you would rather get a direct link

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Videotape Recorder turns 50

The invention that makes the work we do possible turns 50.

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Podcast challenges Mainstream Media

Podcasting is having an impact upon traditional media and its ways of financing itself. NPR is not alone. As more people discover the convenience of both the time and location shift that podcasting allows more disruption is certain to take place. The current usage is still early adapter phase.

What happens if Microsoft allows for it to be built into the operating system?

Mark my words, a year from now, most people with a computer will no longer have to have podcasting explained to them, and radio and television as we know it will be forever changed.

I have been experimenting with some podcasts and some vidcasts as I try to learn more about the process and all that is entailed. It is now just a fraction of the audience that I work with via NLNtv.com, but in the future I will not be surprised if it changes all that I do in significant ways.

Monday, March 27, 2006

New Vidcasts

Today NLNtv.com posted two new vidcasts. One is a Russian sample of the program Kid Tricks. The other is a full program produced by a Romanian producer in English. It is called The Verdict and is about Creationism. It is interesting to see the way this Romanian station dealt with this issue.

To license material you can always connect with NLNtv.com

Friday, January 27, 2006

NLNtv Vidcast

NLN is trying a test site for video podcasts at http://NLNtv.podomatic.com

As I write this I have added two trailers and one complete program. The titles added were in Arabic, Hungarian (although falsely noted as Romanian in the trailer itself) and the complete title is in Polish from our Polish office, created by our Polish arm.

Feedback is eagerly awaited. Let us know if you can use it yourself and how we can make changes to help you.

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Digg vs. Slashdot (or, traffic vs. influence)

Analysis of the power of digg and slashdot

This will mean nothing to most people who read the NLN blog, but it is important to note that this is a question that pits equal access against filtering by experts, and this does have an impact upon NLN and how it best digitally distributes its programming in the future.

We will need to see what wins out over the longer term, but if my theory is correct about the development of the Internet then if Slashdot does not find a way to better democratize and make it easier for users to add info, then they will be less significant within 12 months and Digg will continue to grow.

As for NLN, this means that we will also be developing a more open concept as all shifts towards the on demand, digital world. Feedback is, as always, welcome. You can Skype me at briankelley

read more | digg story

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Brethren Trailer

Brethren Trailer



If you want info about using this material for your station or network visit: NLNtv.com

This is made possible by a feed from video.google.com

I was able to embed it by going here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3549369082424629905&q=Brethren

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