28m; U.S.
Director: Maria Brooks
Synopsis: Workers who rebuilt San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
Author Archives: Metro Council
Red Dust (2010)
20m; U.S.
Director: Karin T. Mak
Synopsis: The incredible story of resistance, courage and hope by women workers in China battling cadmium poisoning and demanding justice from the local government and their employer, a multi-national battery manufacturer.
Red Sorghum (1987)
91m; China
Director: Yimou Zhang
Cast: Li Gong, Wen Jiang and Rujun Ten
Synopsis (IMDB): In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds herself inheriting the isolated business
Redes (The Wave) [1936]
65m; Mexico
Director: Emilio Gómez Muriel
Cast: Silvio Hernández, David Valle González and Rafael Hinojosa
Synopsis (Wikipedia): Redes was made with a mainly non-professional cast and has been seen as anticipating Italian neorealism. It concerns the struggle of poor fishermen to overcome exploitation.
Remember Owens-Illinois 1921-2007 (Time Goes By, 57th St. & Mac Corkle Ave. North, 1921-2007)
2007 35 mins. Joe Hodges
A second glass plant existed right across the street from LOF on MacCorkle Ave. SE in the Kanawha City section of Charleston. This plant became the largest producer of glass bottles in the world by the 1930s. In 1917, just one year after the LOF plant was founded, the Owens-Illinois Company began manufacturing fruit jars, jars for industrial products, and after Prohibition ended, beer bottles. This film tells the story of WV native son Michael Joseph Owens, the inventor of the bottle-making machine that revolutionized the glass industry worldwide. Photos of workers are shown, and videotape-showing reunions are included. The plant closed in 1963. Many workers at this plant would walk across the street and work at the LOF plant when things were slow.
Access: Joseph D. Hodges, 5426 Lancaster Ave. SE, Charleston, WV 25304, 925-1819, joe1819@suddenlink.net or David Radford, 2950 Pine St., Belle, WV, 595-1090. The WV State Archives has copies of both films LOF and OI films, made available to reseachers. Copies of both LOF and OI glass factory films should be available from WVLC and KCPL in summer 2009.
Remembering William C. Blizzard (2009)
55m; U.S.
Director: Kelley Thompson
Synopsis: Blizzard, who passed away in late December 2008 at the age of 92, was the son of “The General of the Battle of Blair Mountain,” Bill Blizzard. Recently, The National Register of Historic Places placed Blair Mountain on its official list.
Contact: Steve Fesenmaier, Film Programmer for the West Virginia Films Series at the South Charleston Museum 907 Churchill Circle Charleston, WV 25314 304-345-5850 Also, board member, WVLHA mystery12@suddenlink.net Work – 558-3978 ext. 2015 fesenms@wvlc.lib.wv.us
Renaissance 2010: On The Front Lines (2007)
52m; U.S.
Director: Jackson Potter & Al Ramirez
Synopsis: Privatization in public schools
Renewal (2008)
90m; U.S.
Director: Marty Ostrow and Terry Kay Rockefeller
Synopsis: It shows individuals and communities driven by the deepest source of inspiration – their spiritual and religious convictions – being called to re-examine what it means to be human and how we live on this planet.
Contact: http://renewalproject.net/join/email_us
The Replacements (2000)
118m; U.S.
Director: Howard Deutch
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman and Brooke Langton
Synopsis (IMDB): A comedy based on the 1987 professional football players’ strike. Gene Hackman plays the coach of the team, Jack Warden is the owner, Brett Cullen is the All-Pro quarterback that goes on strike and Keanu Reeves is the “scab” who replaces the star QB.
Retraining for the Global Economy (2008)
8m; Canada
Director: Kim Hutchinson
Synopsis: Retraining for the Global Economy is a comedy that documents the economic woes of Windsor, Ontario, and dares to ask the question: Where do we go from here?
Contact: khutch@huffmanroadproductions.com 519 738 3216 (Home)
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