BERNADETT TUZA-RITTER, 2017 • HUNGARY
A WOMAN CAPTURED follows the life of a European woman who has been held by a Budapest family as a domestic slave for 10 years. She is one of over 45 million victims of modern day slavery today. Drawing courage from the filmmaker’s presence and the camera as witness, the woman captured attempts to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.
Director Shannon Service, producer Jon Bowermaster.
GHOST FLEET investigates the hidden population of modern-day slaves who underpin industrial fishing, held captive at sea for years at a time.
Synopsis: Featuring veteran anti-war campaigner Tony Benn and peace campaigners from around the world, the film examines works by artists in response to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Twelve artists provide a candid analysis of war through their work and take the viewer on a journey that celebrates humanity and the struggle for peace. Shot in 14 different countries including Iraq and the U.S.A., the film subtly contrasts the difference between destruction and creativity. Six years in the making, this truly independent production without any budget has been made possible through collaboration with other film-makers and a passion for peace and humanity.
The austerity policies of the Tories have targeted young and old. The NHS is chronically under funded and is being privatised. Students are leaving college with huge debts. Children, pensioners and the disabled are living in poverty and millions live precarious lives on ‘zero hour contracts’. Austerity Fight challenges the notion that we have to live in a world where public services are cut, worker’s rights removed and poverty is a daily reality for millions. Austerity Fight champions equality, practical alternatives to Austerity and a vision of a world based on co-operation rather than the greed of a global super elite.
Director: Phil Maxwell, Hazuan Hashim
Country: UK
Running Time: 75′
World Premiere
Year: 2018
After their sell-out premiere of Austerity Fight at EEFF2017, filmmakers and activists, Phil Maxwell and Hazuan Hashim return in 2018 with their follow up film Pensioners United. A potent account of a passionate group of pensioners who unite together to fight for a better life for themselves and those who will follow them. Starring Jeremy Corbyn, Harry Leslie Smith, the late Tony Benn, and thousands of inspirational pensioners from across the UK.
password: PensionersUnited2018
| Documentary, Animation, History | 4 March 2018 (UK)
In a Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines, left to rust in factory yard, mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night.
Documentary film on former Transport & General Union (UK) General Secretary Jack Jones, a man who exercised more power over government economic policy than any other trades union leader in British history.
Jones took on four of the great evils of modern times: poverty, fascism, worker exploitation and pensioner poverty – and took them on with so much conviction that at one point, the public voted him the most powerful man in Britain.
The life of Jack Jones mirrors the story of the 20th century – a man whose like we may never see again.
Roy Boulter, Hurricane Films, roy@hurricanefilms.co.uk
Releasing January 19, 2018 | directed by Sanjay Patel
Starring Rahul Bhat, Tillotama Shome
In a country where the voice of the powerless is often suppressed, it’s time to explore the pain of labour.
A 2017 production of Dim Lights Pictures, Inc and Platoon One Films.
“It portrays workers at a (I think) chromium sulfate plant, in India, union-represented, who are dying of cancer. One guy decides change is needed. He organizes his co-workers, with all the ebbs and flows that happen when you do that – threats, fights, people step up and then back down, he’s beaten up. He pisses blood. He goes to a labor inspector who seems great – and then gets paid off by the boss. The boss tries to pay our hero off. There is a vote and the new union of the real workers is voted in and our hero becomes the leader. It reminds me of ‘Christ in Concrete,’ but it has a happy ending. ”
– Ann Hoffman
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