10m; France
Director: Franck Dion
Synopsis: Looking for efficiency and profit in his bomb factory, Mister Cok decides to replace his workers with sophisticated robots, but one worker is not discarded so easily.
Contact: rvdboom@papy3d.com Papy3d productions, 43 Bd Auguste Blanqui 75013 Paris, France
53m; Italy
Director: Rafaelle Brunetti
Contact: The story of a t-shirt and its journey from the north to the south of the world, told by the people involved in the second-hand clothes trade.
12m; U.S.
Director: A.J. Eaton
Synopsis: Bill, a retired construction expert, is offered the job of ‘Mr. Fix-It’ on a local television show. His debut, however, seems to be a bit confused…although he does seem to be ‘fixing’ things.
Contact: ajeaton@ajeaton.com 310-601-7898 Found on 2007 Palm Springs Shorts Film Fest: http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=19323&FID=31
Synopsis: Each day, thousands of women leave underdeveloped countries to seek work as domestics in more prosperous places. This film shows the human and sometimes tragic side of their stories.
90m; Burkina Faso/France
Director: S. Pierre Yameogo
Cast: Serge Bayala, Pierre-Loup Rajot and Anne Roussel
Synopsis (IMDB): Mamadi is struggling to complete a doctorate at a Parisian university after the government of his country has stopped paying his scholarship. Thanks to his acquaintances in the African community, he finds a job as night watchman in an underground car park. There, a French colleague, Franck, helps the friendly African academic getting around. However, the car park is also a meeting point for dubious characters, and when Mamadi accidentally wrecks a drug trafficking operation, Franck is really hard-pressed to put his pal and himself out of harm’s way. Wouldn’t Mamadi’s home country be the ideal place to escape the gangsters’ wrath
124m; U.S.
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Sean Connery, Richard Harris and Samantha Eggar
Synopsis (IMDB): Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to infiltrate the group and report on its members. But on which side do his sympathies lie?
93m; U.S.
Director: James Keach
Cast: Faith Ford, Tim Matheson and Florence Henderson
Synopsis (IMDB): She was an overworked mom trying to get her family’s attention. She didn’t know she would become a national sensation.
135m; Belguim
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Synopsis (IMDB): A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world’s different wine regions.
29m; U.S.
Director: Arthur Young
Synopsis: Davitt McAteer is one of America’s leading experts on coal mine safety. In 1984, he founded the Occupational Safety and Health Law Center (OSHLC), a public interest law firm based in Shepherdstown that engages in education, training and policy analysis of issues involving workplace safety and health. While director of this Center, he produced this film. In 1993, he was named assistant secretary for the Mine Safety and Health Administration in the U.S. Department of Labor under President Clinton. This film tells the story of the struggle for mine safety in the U.S., focusing on the tragedy of Monongah, WV, in which 362 miners died. In December 2007, WVU Press released his book on the subject, “Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Mine Disaster.”
Contact: Debbie Roberts, droberts@mcateer-assoc.com
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