Distress Signals

America's number 2 export is entertainment. While more audiences worldwide marvel at Dallas' Southfork ranch, regional film and television producers are ignored in their own backyards. DISTRESS SIGNALS divulges much about global television and the workings of the market for it. It reveals plenty about attitudes and inequalities in different areas, and provides vivid examples of the use and misuse of the medium - as a preserver of culture, as a forum for sharing ideas, or as a brain deadener. (icarusfilms.com)