60m; U.S.
Director: Claude Beller and Stefan Moore
Synopsis: Examines the economic problems of the New York City garment industry, including sweatshop working conditions, the plight of the working poor, the state of trade unionism, the impact of imports, and the role of organized crime in the apparel industry. – http://cinemaguild.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TCGS&Product_Code=1539
90m; U.S.
Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Synopsis: A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning in post-Katrina New Orleans.
10m; U.S.
Synopsis: AFL-CIO video on its plan to make health care a major topic of the 2008 elections.
110m; U.S.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen and Martin Landau
Synopsis (IMDB): Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a grandiose schemer with a new dream, to produce the best cars ever made. With the assistance of Abe Karatz and some impressive salesmanship on his own part, he obtains funding and begins to build his factory. The whole movie also has many parallels with director Coppola’s own efforts to build a new movie studio of his own.
95m; Philippines
Director: Kidlat Tahimik
Cast: Homer Abiad, Iñigo Vito and Maria Pehipol
59m; U.S.
Director: Salome Chasnoff
Cast: Joanne Archibald, Brandy Baldwin and Juan Barbieri
Synopsis (IMDB): Turning a Corner tells the stories of people involved in sex work and their efforts to raise public awareness of systemic injustice and promote needed reforms. Created with 15 members of Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), this groundbreaking film recounts their struggle with homelessness, violence, and discrimination, and gives rare insights into the harsh realities of Chicago’s sex trade industry
119m; Brazil
Director: Eduardo Coutinho
Synopsis (IMDB): Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
25m; U.S.
Synopsis (IMDB): Analyzes the forces which arose after World War I and wre at work in the 1920s. Describes the conflict between those who accepted the complexity of the twentieth century and tried to cope with it, and those who rejected the new and tried to live according to past values.
Contact: Project 7 Productions
55m;
Director: Suhi Choi
Suhi Choi received a BA in Korean History from Korea University in Seoul, MFA in TV Production from Brooklyn College in New York. She is a doctoral student of Mass Media and Communication Program, Temple University in Philadelphia. Her documentary, Two Aliens, dealing with conflicts between Korean grocery owners and Mexican workers in New York City, was presented both in the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan.
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