14m; U.S.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Synopsis: A greedy tycoon decides, on a whim, to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing the grain’s producers into charity lines and further into poverty. The film continues to contrast the ironic differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
Ira H. Gallen Video Resources 220 West 71st Street NYC 10023 (212) 724 – 7055
58m; U.S.
Director: Sylvia Morales
Chronicles the achievements of five Latina/Chicana activisits, including the labor organizer/farm worker Dolores Huerta
Contact: Sylvia Morales smorales@lmu.edu
57m; U.S.
Director: Kathy Leichter & Jonathan Skurnik
Tracks three welfare-recipients’ involvement in New York’s controversial Work Experience Program (WEP), the largest welfare-to-work transition program in the United States.
Contact: To order a copy of “A DAY’S WORK, A DAY’S PAY” call 1-888-367-9154, log on to http://www.newday.com, or write: New Day Films, 22-D Hollywood Avenue, Hohokus, NJ, 07432. Price to Purchase: $240 for universities; $89 for non-profits. Price to Rent: $60
61m; U.S.
Director: Ellery Cadiz and Enoch Hicks
Synopsis: The film has 15 chapters that cover everything from the origin of coal to a tribute for a miner’s family servicemen. Additional short films cover a history of mining safety, a history of mining machinery, a simulated mine explosion, and a portrait of War, WV.
Contact: Cadiz/Hicks Productions http://www.aflamingrock.com enie31@aol.com 937-258-2306
112m; U.K.
Director: John Schlesinger
A young man (Alan Bates), inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend’s (June Richie) pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law due to a housing shortage in their Northern England town.
113m; France
Director: Robert Guediguian
love & struggle in a ethnic working class neighborhood in Marseilles
60m
Director: Michel Fraser
Synopsis (A Life in Print): A LIFE IN PRINT is a one-hour documentary profiling San Francisco Bay area printmaker Xavier Viramontes, one of the most influential artists of our time and a founding member of Galeria de la Raza. His iconoclast silkscreen poster Boycott Grapes for the United Farmworkers awakened a nation and rallied the Chicano movement in art.
Website: http://www.alifeinprint.net
Contact: Lindsay Dedo ldedo@cinemaguild.com
88m; U.S.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: James Cagney, Barbara Hale, and Anne Francis
92m
Director: Jill Freidberg
Synopsis: When the people of Oaxaca decided they’d had enough of bad government, they didn’t take their story to the media…they TOOK the media.
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