89m; Australia
Director: Lezli-An Barrett
Synopsis (IMDB): After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing organizer, and takes her plight to the union.
Synopsis: “a tribute to working class people/culture and focuses on the lives of five generation miners and their families who have lived and worked in Butte over the past 125 years”
Contact: Pamela Roberts; Producer, Rattlesnake Productions, Inc. pam.rattlesnake@gmail.com 1615 Hillside Lane Bozeman, MT 59715 Cell: 406-579-0304
57m
Director: John de Graaf and Hana Jindrova
Synopsis (Bull Frog Films): Under the auspices of the WTO, globalization of world trade seems like a juggernaut that will not be stopped. But is there a way to make trade FAIR? How can retailers and consumers use their purchasing power and market choice to make the world better for people and the environment? What is the promise of product certification and labeling?
BUYER BE FAIR looks at two major trade goods — timber and coffee — to find out how certification works and whether it helps the world’s poor, and their lands. Can the lessons from certification of timber, by the Forest Stewardship Council, and coffee, by Fair Trade, be applied to other products?
Website: http://www.buyerbefair.org/
94m
Director: Toshi Fijiwara
Synopsis: A portrait of documentary filmmaker, Noriaki Tsuchimoto.
40m; Turkey
Director: Güliz Saglam, Feryal Saygiligil
Synopsis: Seven workers, all women. Four free-trade zones in four different Turkish cities. Surrounded by high walls, barbed wire fences, very much like a concentration camp. This documentary covers the working conditions of women in the free-trade zones, their experiences, observations and their hopes for the future. The barbed wire fences not only surround the zones but also accentuate the captivity of women workers. So much so that the borders of the zone evade us, inside and outside become indistinguishable.
60m; South Africa
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Synopsis: Documentary detailing labor strikes by South African unions against the apartheid regime.
96m
Director: Jan Bonny
Synopsis (Variety): … a grim, occasionally black comic drama of a middle-age couple locked in a cycle of love and abuse.
9:56
Synopsis: These spoof ads were independently produced by graduate students in film and theater at York University during the CUPE 3903 strike of 2008/09. These individuals were not paid to specifically produce these ads. They, like picketers, were provided minimal strike pay of 10 $/hour for up to 20 hours/week. The funds for the Strike pay were derived from union dues paid by members on every paycheck prior to the strike. The equipment and space necessary for the production of these ads was either the personal property of these members or was borrowed, without charge, from various resources available to them as members of the filmmaking community.
78m; U.S.
Director: Michael Curitz
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis and Dorothy Jordan
Synopsis (IMDB): A tenant farmer’s son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner’s seductive daughter.
98m; U.S.
Director: Harold Ramis
Cast: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray
Synopsis: An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.
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