Films

	Existentialism: The Philosophical Movement In an abstract outlook existentialism is the idea that dread, boredom, death, the absurd, freedom, choice, authenticity, alienation, and nothingness is fundamental to human existence. Existentialism grew as a philosophical and intellecutal movement in 19th and 20th century literature and philosophy. Beginning with the works and thoughts of Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche the movement of existentialism itself took over the academia as well as the lay public with the continuing work and thinking of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus. The emerging movement of existentialism grew from a quaint abstract philosophy of the human condition to a lived philosophy of personal responsibility and authenticity. But what exactly is existentialism and how can one come to know it in order to apply it for oneself? Jean-Paul Sartre defines existentialism with a simple axiom that "existence precedes essence". In Adelin Gasana's final documentary film as a college student an overview of existentialism is outlined in a one-hour time frame. This documentary portrays the historical thought, fundamental tenets and praxis of existentialism.
	History Institutionalized Taking a look at historical figures like Jesus and Thomas Jefferson the question "why are these stories important?" and "how have they been passed down generation after generation?" soon comes into play. The impetus and the drive to tell stories of the past whether it be political or religious has its meaning some have deduced in ideology and propaganda. So, is history "propagandized"? And if so, how? How is history treated in practice written or spoken? Can history be institutionalized in the form and principle of a doctrine used to suppress facts that are contrary to recorded history or a means to deliver a feeling, belief, and or behavioral response from those who take history seriously and literally?
	The F Word - Part 1 The stigma and antagonism over the term feminism has been somewhat inundated and strategic for the past two and three decades. With much emphasis on stereotypes like "bra-burners" "man-haters" "angry lesbians" "hairy-legged hippies" with "no sense of humor" the feminist movement and its correlating theories has been somewhat damaged and smeared. Documentary filmmaker Adelin Gasana sets out in this introspective documentary journey to find out what is at the heart of this aversion of the subject of feminism and seeks to find the constructive meaning toward the word. Through his journey Gasana embarks on feminist theorists, feminist activists, feminists authors, and the lay public on the present influence and acknowledgement of feminism through its gender and race relations. Historical implications of the American women's liberation movement and key issues of women's identity, social status, and pressures are all raised as well.
	The F Word - Part 2 The stigma and antagonism over the term feminism has been somewhat inundated and strategic for the past two and three decades. With much emphasis on stereotypes like "bra-burners" "man-haters" "angry lesbians" "hairy-legged hippies" with "no sense of humor" the feminist movement and its correlating theories has been somewhat damaged and smeared. Documentary filmmaker Adelin Gasana sets out in this introspective documentary journey to find out what is at the heart of this aversion of the subject of feminism and seeks to find the constructive meaning toward the word. Through his journey Gasana embarks on feminist theorists, feminist activists, feminists authors, and the lay public on the present influence and acknowledgement of feminism through its gender and race relations. Historical implications of the American women's liberation movement and key issues of women's identity, social status, and pressures are all raised as well.
	Democracy Or Not The term “democracy” derives from early Greek connotation in political rhetoric and it has been an important subject and facet in modern day history. In his eleventh consecutive documentary, Adelin Gasana establishes the rhetorical meaning of the word with its applied practice in America society. The 90-minute film parlays on an extensive overview and outlook America has undergone on the stance of democracy in recent history. In the documentary, references to the principle aims of America's founding fathers, the impact of the Civil War, the current stance economics and politics not only intervenes but at times work against the goals of democracy, the clash of capitalism and democracy, the problem of the media, and special corporate interests playing a role in governmental policies, convey a challenging look on America's political rule and form of government. Delivering his message with the help of university professors, experts in their fields from history and political science to mass communication and economics, Gasana attempts to argue the stance of whether it is fair to include the theoretical perspective of democracy with its realistic practice.
	Something Called Beauty In retrospect, beauty is defined as an innate idea of the perception of life’s quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality. However, in Adelin Gasana’s tenth and final film of 2006 he argues with intrinsic detail that beauty is in fact inert, timeless, and generic used especially to psychologically imprison women in the Western society by keeping them focused whole-heartedly on ideal beauty—which can never be accomplished—while limiting them as passive, submissive, and dependent individuals in a male patriarchal society. He expresses his viewpoint by excerpts from Naomi Wolf’s 1992 International Bestseller, The Beauty Myth as well with six interviews of University of West Florida female students.
	Evolutionary The theory of evolution has long been a source of intimate debate, mounting issues of scientific evaluations, various studies and criteria from abundant educational fields, and an ongoing process of schooling. Adelin Gasana sits with one zoologist, one biological anthropologist, and one philosopher of biology—all representing the University of West Florida in a timely overview of a film to clear-up the misunderstandings of the idea of evolution, teach the general and basic outline of the theory of evolution and some of its ongoing research and history of the subject. Inference into economics, social issues, and other factors become an apparent understanding that Gasana uses to establish the theory of evolution as an important subject matter in the world’s originality to everyday life.
	Listening To A Stigma “Fear me like you fear God because I bring death” pronounced by 50 Cent and other violent-inducing lyrics has become a mainstream art for many hip hop artists. In this documentary film, Adelin Gasana documents the stigma of hip hop as influential to violence that is not only endorsed and encouraged by corporate music entrepreneurs but glorified and exalted by the rap artists and their fans themselves usually on the basis of violence, crime, and ill-moral behaviors. For violence to be glorified in its own imitable way by talented and richly accommodated rap artists establishes a heavy influence of burden that work in the large increases of black on black homicide, drug crimes, hate crimes, and many felonious affairs of young minority groups in America.
	Pseudoscience Pseudoscience is a compelling issue that garners insignificant attention but heavy influence, impact, and manipulation especially in the eyes of critical scientists and researchers. Adelin Gasana, activist filmmaker, seeks to document parlaying pseudoscience and its pseudoscientific reasoning and its effects on American and worldly influence. Interviewee subjects in the fields of science—all employed at the University of West Florida seek out with the student filmmaker in analyzing and criticizing the heavy and negative side effects that pseudoscience poses. With the heavy burden of money that pseudoscientists seek without any regard to burdens of proof and logic, Pseudoscience challenges the scientific community and every intellectual community of reasoning to go hard and eliminate pseudoscience and their growing pseudoscientific influences.
	Living In Genocide All through world history and more importantly in U.S. history the notion of war and genocide has indeed found its contrary dichotomy in its history of wars, propaganda, reporting, and foreign policy. Young documentarian Adelin Gasana attempts to connect the overall status of the term genocide with the conceptual wording of war. With deep expert interviews from a tenured professor of history, a rapt professor of military science, and a seasoned professor of political science—all from the University of West Florida, Living In Genocide calls into the question of war and its demoralizing effects upon neighbors, witnesses, engagers, and future generations. Underlying commentary of despots, pacifism, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, modern warfare, and contemporary military history are condensed with diminutive to extensive montages, archive footage, visual images, and significant afterthought.
	Reality Matters Today, suicide is not only a national crisis but a historical epidemic. Tragically, suicides affect young adults, senior citizens, sick and disabled people, and unemployed to underemployed citizens. Amateur filmmaker Adelin Gasana interviews: two professors of philosophy and one professor of sociology from the University of West Florida, a Pensacola clinical psychologist, a Pensacola mental health counselor, a Pensacola social worker, and a Pensacola suicidologist that really tie in and document the issue and subject matter of suicide in a general and conscientious feel of a documentary. Themes of death, purpose of life, and the psychology of the suicide victim are indeed raised. All these concerning matters play a huge role in the summary of the film that addresses music, people, societal pressures, forms of suicide and the American way of thinking.
	Positively Negative Tobacco smoking has become the third leading cause of death in the United States and the first preventive cause of death as well. Numerous bans and legality issues have worked diligently to ban the spreading influence and advertising for tobacco smoking usually aimed at young individuals. However, what most Americans don’t know nor realize and has become oblivious in media, advertising, and PR discussions is the movie industry taking the richly endorsed offers to advertise cigarette and cigar smoking on the big screen. In this short 15-minute film, documentary rebel Adelin Gasana conveys current movies of American filmmaking into a business of multi-million dollar transactions and profits by spreading the influence of tobacco smoking throughout the industry.
	Dying’s Easy Today, the newspaper industries are on a prominent decline of young readers which makes it more difficult for the newspaper media to compete in the ever-growing and evolving market of mass communication. In his third film, Adelin Gasana documents the customs of the newspaper industry, its evolving battle against technology, media acts at handling the problem of declining young readership, and the future of the newspapers upon the American market. With detailed experts from a range of expertise and insight Dying’s Easy provides a didactic look and critique of newspapers and its dying role among young readers.
	A Disease Called Promiscuity With much implication of multiple-sex partners as a double-standard, entertainment glorification, stigmatized act, religious obscenity, and many other taboos and exalts, promiscuity is indeed live and well. In Adelin Gasana’s second film that clearly shows his start in the documentary film genre he interviews a health psychologist, a social psychologist, and a professor of philosophy of sex and love—all from the University of West Florida. Implying that promiscuity is metaphorically a disease, Gasana digs deeper in the argument against promiscuity as having a depraving psychological mindset of those who seek those acts.
	Money Talks In the United States, money is not only an objective value used for consumption of goods and services, the ultimate capitalistic goal of identity, security, and progress, and the achievement of worth, success, and purpose for satisfactions and ideals it is a philosophical and psychological tool. In his first complete documentary, Adelin Gasana decided to get in on the conversation of money and its effects in contemporary society, its civilized history, and many other fields of inquiry. As an omniscient narrator in this 45-minute film, Gasana travels the University of West Florida campus among college students of male groups to minority women, and interviews a distinguished marketing and history professor.

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