118m; Ireland
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne and Angeline Ball
Synopsis (IMDB): The travails of Jimmy Rabbitte to form the “World’s Hardest Working Band,” The Commitments, and bring soul music to the people of Dublin, Ireland.
104m; U.K.
Director: John Baxter
Synopsis: Youth inherits business and poses as a tramp to save hostel from demolition.
345m; France
Director: Peter Watkins
Cast: Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux and Bernard Bombeau
Synopsis: A miniseries following children, women, shopkeepers & nuns reveal fascinating historical detail of the 1871 Paris Commune by sharing their opinions of the political climate.
20m; U.S.
Director: Workers Film and Photo League
Synopsis: Depression-era film of Communist Rallies in Michigan
104m; U.S.
Director: John Wells
Cast: Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner
Synopsis (IMDB): The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company – and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.
25m; U.S.
Director: Jim Rutenbeck
Synopsis: Jim Rutenbeck began his professional career with this film. He now edits many of The American Experience films produced by WGBH-TV, shown nationally on PBS. His award-winning film, Raise the Dead, ends in War, McDowell County, West Virginia. The town of Widen, West Virginia (Clay County) was once a thriving coal mining community. Using interviews, photographs and old film footage, this film recounts the history of Widen and its paternal ruler, coal baron Joseph Gardner Bradley, 1882-1971. It is still considered to be one of the best film portraits of an Appalachian company coal town.
183m; U.K.
Director: Bill Douglas
Cast: Keith Allen, Dave Atkins and Stephen Bateman
Synopsis: The story of “The Tolpuddle Martyrs”. A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
94m
Director: Dario Azzellini
Synopsis: In more than 30,000 Consejos Comunales, Venezuelan inhabitants decide on their concerns collectively via assemblies. The film follows these developments in building worker control throughout the hillside of the shantytowns of Caracas and the vast and wet plains of Barinas in the countryside.
Contact: Wiener Str. 14 b 10999 Berlin Germany Tel.: 0049-30-61288162 Fax: 0049-30-61288162 Mobile: 0171/4156176 Mobile in Venezuela: 0058-412-6180009 Mobile Italia:0039-3335972988 Mail: dnapress@gmx.net
57m; U.S.
Director: Keya Lea Horiuchi
Synopsis: Explores how the rest of the world thinks of the US and how the US compares on social and political issues.
Contact: keyalea@yahoo.com 970 596-7267 (Cell)
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