Cover Girl Culture: Classroom & Community Use License
€83
Price: $82.88
(as of Sep 25, 2025 23:07:31 UTC – Details)
Cover Girl Culture is an award-winning film that explores how the worlds of fashion, advertising, models and celebrity impact our teens and young women. Who sets today’s standards for beauty and how are these standards affecting individuals and society? Who is responsible? What values are we teaching our children? Are there ways this can be changed? If so, who can and will change it? Directed & produced by former international Elite model. This is the NEW 60 minute CLASSROOM EDITION. The purchase of this DVD (only from Zen Pen Films) will include a FREE Study Guide (pdf) to help teachers/educators easily create a class around the film with Key Topics, Questions and Activities. (for grade/learning level 8-12) Purchase includes rights to show the film in libraries or other settings at the acquiring institution, for which there is no admission fee. EXPERTS INTERVIEWED from across North America: Dr. Karyn Gordon: Canada’s top teen expert/family counselor, Dr. Deb Burgard: eating disorder specialist/ body-image expert, Dr. Zarrabi – plastic surgeon, Connie Sobczak: found of The Body Positive, Misty Tripoli:body-image coach, Robert Stevens: former advertising exec, Audrey Brashich: author and self-esteem advocate for girls. Also: TEACHERS, PARENTS & STUDENTS. Zen Pen Films holds sole rights of this documentary. No other resellers have authority to sell this classroom edition of Cover Girl Culture. Nicole Clark, the director, holds the intellectual property for this film and it’s manufacture. If you’ve purchased this dvd from an outside seller they cannot provide the bonus curriculum as it is also property of Zen Pen Films and Nicole Clark.
MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
Package Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 3.5 ounces
Director : Nicole Clark
Media Format : Special Edition
Run time : 1 hour
Actors : Connie Sobczak, Dr. Deb Burgard, Dr. Karyn Gordon, Elmer Olsen, Misty Tripoli
Producers : John Clark, Nicole Clark
Studio : Zen Pen Films
ASIN : B00FJK27ZM
Number of discs : 1
Customer Reviews: 3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 7 ratings var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when(‘A’, ‘ready’).execute(function(A) { if (dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction !== true) { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative( ‘acrLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault”: true }, function (event) { if (window.ue) { ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } } ); } }); P.when(‘A’, ‘cf’).execute(function(A) { A.declarative(‘acrStarsLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault” : true }, function(event){ if(window.ue) { ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } }); });
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Sunny –
the premise is good, but the movie itself is not well done
the premise of what they are discussing is good, society, magazines, tv shows, push young women towards an unreal standard of beauty. the problem is that this movie can’t be shown to anyone older than a child, because it feels like the producer basically just interviews her closest friends and a few magazine editors. granted, she interviews with the best magazines: vogue, elle, etc. but the commentary on the other side includes no valid sources, just one former bulimic and another woman that looks like a sports person in some way.
Lawrence Payne –
An extraordinary DVD that tells the truth.
By Lawrence Payne, MSWAs I watched the “Cover Girl Culture” DVD”, I was so happy that there is a program that is addressing the problems of how the media, and businesses are sexualizing our little girls. This film offers solutions to parents and girls, and this is what is needed to reverse this culture.During my career, I have worked with K – 12 students, taught at colleges, and provided therapy to girls and women of all ages.Over the years, I have felt extremely sad to see young clients come into therapy that are only concerned about being pretty. I had a client who’s parents told me that their daughter took a shower, and afterwards they caught her with a camera taking nude pictures of herself. They also stated that with all the clothes that she has, she only likes to wear short dresses. The age of this client was seven years old. I also had a client who confessed that he and his girlfriend were exchanging nude photos of each other with their cell phones. The kids were twelve years old.Young girls feel that they must be perfect, and that they are only valued if they are sexy. Many of these girls feel so inadequate that they are turning to cosmetic surgery. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, in 2010, teens from ages thirteen to nineteen received some of the following procedures: “Breast augmentations (8,525), ear surgeries (8,763), liposuction (3,205), and nose reshaping (35,005). What is also extremely interesting are the Cosmetic Minimally Invasive Procedures, this age group also had the following procedures completed: Botox (13,467), laser hair removal (66,664), laser skin resurfacing (19,466), laser treatment of leg veins (20,991), and Microdermabrasion (9,091).If this is not bad enough, we now have young girls posting their picture on YouTube asking strangers to tell them if they are pretty. Just like magazines that rate women, students also created an ‘online poll ranking’ that rated the “Hottest” girls in the district’s middle and high schools. Is this what we want for our girls?Nicole Clark’s DVD – “Cover Girl Culture” addresses the problems / issues that are causing our young girls to feel that they are inadequate. This DVD depicts how the media and businesses are making a tremendous amount of money by sexualizing young girls. I also found the professionals who presented in the DVD to not only be creditable, but also extremely accurate as to what is taken place in this culture.The “Cover Girl Culture” DVD allows the viewers to hear from girls. These girls discussed the need to be perfect, and also which parts of their bodies need to change so that they will become perfect. The girls also discuss how they see thin models, and then they look at themselves and feel a sense of inadequacy. The DVD does a excellent job with balancing the views of young girls, and the professionals that have direct experience in this area. It also addresses the media / businesses that only care about the money that is being made at the expense of our little girls.As a therapist, educator, and former foster kid, I would love to see the “Cover Girl Culture” DVD shown at schools, girls group homes, colleges, and at parenting classes. In addition, I firmly believe that the DVD should be shown anywhere there are females (all ages) because society as a whole are given them the wrong messages about their beauty.We have got to get to the point that female of all ages are not judged at all, let alone on beauty. Our young girls need to know that they are intelligent, and that their value is not based on what media tells them it should be.I highly recommend three things: (1) That people purchase the “Cover Girl Culture” DVD and show it to girls, family members, and friends. (2) That people approach the schools not only to see the DVD, but to invite Nicole Clark in to talk about her experiences as a model. (3) For those that can afford too, donate to Nicole Clark’s Program so that she can continue to make a difference in the lives of our young girls.
Carl S –
Amazing & Timely
I just finished watching Cover Girl Culture and feel a profound sense of gratitude for the powerful message put forth in this film. The film’s message honors the inherent beauty and goodness in all of us, especially our young. If this film was required viewing for all young girls and boys (and dare I say, most adult women and men) the world and it’s media outlets would be a more informed, empowering, and possibly enlightened place for this and future generations to inhabit and glean information and wisdom from. Girls and boys senses of self become brutalized by incessant demands to measure up to presented ideals of femininity and masculinity, which do not align with the highest ideals in Nature…all life is given freely and we have the choice to honor this gift with affirming images and messages or attempt to degrade it with demeaning and demoralizing content simply because it has “market value”. What market is worth a young person’s pride and belief in themselves as contributing members of society? Will one independent film tip the scales of decency and righteousness in favor of Spirit and bring the vapid money machine of mass media to a unequivocal and resounding halt in the present or distant future? Most likely not…and this precisely why this film is so important. If every person that sees this film feels empowered to make wiser and more compassionate choices of what they are willing to view and in turn broadcast in their personal style with a degree more sensitivity to the radical beauty of all living beings we may just lower the anxiety level of the planet a few notches and calm the jangled nerves of many more teen girls and boys starved for role models that feed their souls and not starve them like the models made up for a roles in fantasy worlds designed to hoodwink them into believing they belong in it.
chewed art –
Necessary, important film
After hearing friends discuss the positive impact this film had, I purchased a copy for my family.Unlike a lot of documentaries that are made by filmmakers who learn about a subject and fly in for filming, this was an inside look at the impact of media on self-esteem by a former Elite model. It is full of valuable interviews and examples of the range of tools used to sell us products. It balances nicely between kids, parents, models, editors, and doctors to provide a range of perspectives. It is far more believable and, frankly, newsworthy when an insider making model money leaves the business to make a movie about what really is happening.And why it has come up in so many following conversations is because she offers solutions. While it might have been enough to leave me slack-jawed at the editors’ comments about health, fashion, and their desire to “educate women,” clearly the film wants us to shield ourselves, to think for ourselves, and to decide with our wallets what companies deserve our advertising support.It is a rare documentary made by someone so qualified, with such amazing access…it is truly unbelievable to see the list of magazine editors sharing the camera with Canada’s top teen experts, PhDs, body-image specialists, and surgeons.