97m; U.S.
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg and Dwight Schultz
Synopsis (IMDB): Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
98m; U.K.
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure
Synopsis (IMDB): A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
104m; U.K.
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Graham Green, Carolyn Nicholson and Tony Pitts
Synopsis: Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens’ Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the dole. There are no jobs. His best mate Alan joins the army to fix tanks and is sent to Belfast to quell Catholics. At a disco, Mick meets Karen, who works at a shoe shop and lives with her recently-separated mom. Karen misses her dad. She offers Mick emotional stability and a route to adulthood; Alan pitches the army. Does Mick have a future?
86m; Mexico
Director: Amat Escalante
Cast: Jesus Moises Rodriguez, Rubén Sosa and Nina Zavarin
Synopsis: Pulp crime and cinematic formalism collide in this hauntingly visceral portrait of two Mexican day laborers moved to desperate deeds in a hellish contemporary Los Angeles. Host University of Guadalajara Foundation.
Contact: Kino International Corp. 333 W. 39th St., Ste. 503 New York, NY 10018 Tel. (212) 629-6880 Tel. (800) 562-3330 Fax. (212) 714-0871 contact@kino.com
Year: 2007
Director: Charles Latour
Producer: Charles Latour
Country: Canada
Time: 60 Minutes
Every year, some 4000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico labour in Quebec farms to plant and pick vegetables in Canada. In the summer of 2006 Patricia Perez, a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW, launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms South of Montreal. She struggles to protect them by bringing them under a union that would give them the same rights as Canadian agricultural workers. This film is about the injustices of globalisation, not in the Third World, but in Canada.
86m; Mexico
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo and Estela Inda
Synopsis: A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City.
8m; U.S.-Cuba
Director: Francisco Gonzalez, Russell Griffin
Synopsis: A passion for work, a pursuit of art, and the leaves of the tobacco plant combine to create pleasure and pride for these Cuban-American cigar makers.
Contact: Found on the 2007 Palm Springs Film Festival: http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=19323&FID=31
48m; U.S.
Director: Heather Courtney
Synopsis: Immigrant workers.
Contact: Women Make Movies 212-925-0606 Director: 512-371-1337; hcourtney85@hotmail.com
96m; Germany
Director: Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke
Synopsis: German efficiency and Chinese industriousness pass each other on globalization’s economic ladder.
Contact: Hans-Peter Metzler Submission Contact buero.metzler@t-online.de +49 (0)7542 951270 (Work)
87m; U.S.
Director: Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk
Cast: Santino Majok Chuor and Peter Kon Dut
Synopsis: Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa’s cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia
THE LABOR FILM DATABASE 