Author Archives: Labor Film Database

Email: donna.golden@mac.com
Film’s Website: https://vimeo.com/32966847
Film’s Director(s): Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso
Film’s Release Date: 2008
Brief Film Description/Blurb: Animated short film: literal and metaphorical representations of work.

Distributed by First Run Features and available on Amazon and iTunes.

Canadian doc feature that uncovers higher education’s dirty little secret, taking us inside the moving stories of precarious contract professors and examining the issues of precarity and systemic exploitation on campus.

The film is 81 minutes long. We are now working on a shorter version, under 50 minutes, for film festivals with time limitations and for possible broadcast.

Gerry Potter
gerrypotter7@gmail.com

Documentary about the annual Durham Miners Gala.

Trailer can be viewed here https://www.galafilm.co.uk/about

“Every second Saturday in July the city of Durham is taken over by miners, trade-unions and the public for an event known locally as ‘The Big Meeting’. The Durham Miners’ Gala is an annual celebration of noise, colour and solidarity, of class culture, creativity and endeavour. Attracting 200,000 people, banners and brass bands parade through the streets to honour their heritage. The Big Meeting reflects the past, present and future of the Gala and labour movement, whilst following four protagonists over the course of this impressive working- class occasion.”

Durham Miners’ Association
Ross Forbes
rossalexforbes@gmail.com

https://vimeo.com/407225249

Charlie Hall

foraiproductions@gmail.com

https://www.dmoffest.com/post/tales-from-the-long-memory

Director – Charles Hall

Genre – Documentary

Duration – 54 minutes

Country – United States

Language – English

Year – 2021

SYNOPSIS : In the autumn, when the leaves are down, it’s the time that folk singing rabble rouser U. Utah Phillips thinks about hitting the rails. As a young man he crisscrossed the country on freight trains in search of teachers that would help to understand himself and where he came from. During this time he experienced the ultimate freedom of having no home ahead and none behind but he also experienced the works of mercy as he faced the difficulties of his journey. He discovered the dynamic struggle of people to organize themselves and demand a quality of life for themselves and those around them that provides bread yes, but roses too.

Tales From the Long Memory follows the people who look to Utah as their teacher now while they continue the work that inspired him throughout his life. In Detroit the Wobbly Kitchen shows how the simple act of feeding someone can spark a community of solidarity in a city struggling to rebuild its glory. In Madison the sweet sounds of labor songs echo through the capital building every day at noon. In Portland the Sisters of the Road Café serve up dignity and nourishment at a price you can afford. And in a quaint northern California gold rush town, a dedicated group of community members grow an idea into a house of hospitality called Utah’s Place.

https://www.ourmetropolis.in/

Name: Ümit Güç

Email: umitguc1989@gmail.com

Name of Film: Yeyüzü Ayakları/ Feet of Earth

Film’s Website: https://www.instagram.com/yeryuzuayaklari/

Film’s Director(s): Ümit Güç

Film’s Release Date: 2020

Brief Film Description/Blurb: The history created classes, generations and genders in itself meanwhile progressing on human-nature contradiction. Yet there was political economy in the cup of people carried on their foot while taking steps through time and space infinity. This documentary aims to probe on our century’s main issues through Middle East along with getting structured on this political economy. While the humankind steps forward, shoes and shoe prints maintain to get form in the hands of humanity with all sorts of language and colors.

Link to Film’s Trailer: https://vimeo.com/457742469