110m; Italy
Director: Pasquale Scimeca
Cast: Marcello Mazzarella, Vincenzo Albanese and Carmelo Di Mazzarelli
Synopsis (IMDB): The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948.
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The Planning Lady (2007)
9m; U.S.
Director: Marty Shea
Synopsis: A 1st grader visits the school guidance counselor and must decide what she wants to be for the rest of her life.
Contact: Marty Shea 773-989-8501 tragedies@crewdocs.com
Pleasure For The People
90m; France
Director: Jean-Pierre Thorn
Synopsis: Tells the story through hip-hop and music of the immigrant Morrocan and African youth in France and the racism that they face.
Plunder: The Crime of our Time (2009)
100m; U.S.
Director: Danny Schechter
Synopsis: A hard-hitting investigative film that explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed.
Contact: http://plunderthecrimeofourtime.com/contact.htm
Poor Cow (1967)
101m; U.K.
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Terence Stamp, Carol White and John Bindon
Synopsis (IMDB): A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone she takes up with his mate (another thief) who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up in the nick. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure. Her son goes missing and she briefly comes to grips with what is most important to her.
The Pope’s Toilet (El baño del Papa) [2007]
90m; Uruguay
Director: César Charlone, Enrique Fernández
Cast: César Troncoso, Virginia Méndez and Mario Silva
Synopsis (IMDB): In Melo, a poor Uruguayan country village near the Brazilian border, several men earn their living from contraband, mostly transported on bicycles. One of them, Beto, is getting too old for heavy freights but hopes to a earn a motorbike. The idea is to build and charge money for the use of a proper lavatory at the occasion of the first-ever papal visit to Uruguay, as is holiness is expected to pass trough Melo where he may be cheered by hordes of Catholic Brazilians.
Porto Marghera-The Last Firebrands (2004)
52m; Italy
Director: Manuela Pellarin
Synopsis: A film about petrochemical workers who took matters into their own hands in the giant industrial zone engulfing Venice. Porto Marghera documents autonomous workers and their experiences from the point of view of the worker-activists themselves. “The mass refusal of literally toxic work forced hours on the job down at the same time as driving wages up. The labour hierarchy that sets white collar against blue, permanent against casual, was attacked by workers insisting on the maximum for everyone. The battle in the factory was linked to working-class life outside through direct appropriation of basic social needs.
Portrait of Teresa (Retrato de Teresa) [1979]
103m; Cuba
Director: Pastor Vega
Cast: Idalia Anreus, Miguel Benavides and Samuel Claxton
Synopsis (IMDB): Teresa is overwhelmed: with a husband, three young sons, a job as a crew leader in a textile factory, and volunteer commitments as cultural leader of her union. Her husband, Ramón, wants more of her attention; her feelings are mixed, wanting domestic peace, feeling responsibilities to the revolution, and wanting to control her own life beyond doing dirty dishes. They separate; he begins an affair. When he wants a reconciliation, she asks what his response would be if she’d had an affair too. “But men are different,” is his reply. He’s failed her test, and to hold on to independence and self-respect, she remains uncompromising and hard-edged.
Portrait of a Coal Miner (1980)
15m; U.S.
Synopsis: Before the recent tragedy in Ferrell No. 17, Madison, Boone County, filmmakers for National Geographic’s new series, Community Life In America, made a film on the Marcum family. Marcus was charged with the deaths of several miners as a result of a gas explosion. Lawyers for the prosecuting attorney watched the film at The WV Cultural Center. Besides working as a shift manager Tom Marcum and family enjoy fishing and camping. Basic facts about coal mining are shown along with the lifestyle of coalmining families in WV. Access: 16 mm only, WVLC
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