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Migrant Worker Film Festival

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http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english

South Korea

 

GET-UP Film Festival (Graduate Employees Together at the University of Pennsylvania)

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http://www.getuponline.org/Proof1.html

info@getuponline.org

Philadelphia, PA

U.S.A.

 

Solidarity Film Series

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Dorothy Tristman

dorothy.tristman@gmail.com

 

Labor & Community Film Series

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Deborah Rosenstein

dgr@umn.edu

http://www.les.csom.umn.edu

Minneapolis, MN

U.S.A.

 

Thailand Labor Film festival

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lek@thailabour.org

 

Korean Labor FilmFest

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http://www.lnp89.org/festival

South Korea

 

International Labour Film Festival

Stockholm

Sweden

 

9 to 5 (1980)

110m; U.S

Director: Colin Higgins

Cast: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton

Synopsis (IMDB): Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?

 

 

 

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Baran (2001)

94m; Iran

Director: Majid Majidi

Synopsis: Immigrant construction workers in Tehran through the eyes of a young child worker.

 

 

 

 

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Brassed Off (1996)

101m; U.K.

Director: Mark Herman

Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Jim Carter, Sue Johnston, Stephen Moore, Ken Colley, Grimethorpe Colliery Band

Synopsis (IMDB): Laid-off miners in 90’s England. “A small Yorkshire mining town is threatened with being shut down and the only hope for the town’s men is to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald) appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win. In joining the band she puts her relationship with her childhood sweetheart Andy (Ewan McGregor) on the line.”

 

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