103m; U.S.
Director: Zoltan Korda
Synopsis: In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu (Sidney Poitier) is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
90m
Directors: Filip Remunda, Vit Klusak
Synopsis (Czech Dream): … documents the largest consumer hoax the Czech Republic has ever seen. Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak, two of Eastern Europe’s most promising young documentary filmmakers, set out to explore the psychological and manipulative powers of consumerism by creating an ad campaign for something that didn’t exist.
Website: http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/ceskysen/en/index.php?load=aktualne
45m
Director: Ann Simonton
Synopsis: Shared Hope International’s explosive new documentary, featuring investigative footage of the dark and hidden world of sex traffickers, pimps and buyers. DEMAND. exposes the men who buy commercial sex, the vulnerable women and children sold as commodities, and the facilitators of the sale within the marketplace of exploitation.
http://www.sharedhope.org/what/videos.asp recc by Ann Simonton It talks about the women’s labor in the sex industry a topic too often ignored. It is 45 minutes and I could help set up a panel for what folks can do and people to field questions in all cities listed below. Thanks, Ann Simonton
105m
Director: Russ Hexter
Synopsis (WorldCat): Interviews in the Michael Moore/Roger and me tradition examine life in small-town America, class conflicts and the collapse of an upstate New York community, Dadetown, when the town’s once-prosperous factory, reduced to the manufacture of paper clips and staples, finally closes.
138m; Holland
Director: Stijn Coninx
Synopsis: In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers.
Contact: Jan Marijnissen, jmarijnissen@sp.nl (guy I met 8/14; will get me more info on Dutch labor films)
90m
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Synopsis: Judy O’Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
6m; U.S.
Director: Firebrand Productions
Synopsis: Teamsters showing dangers on the road and lack of protection for drivers who speak out.
92m; Argentina
Director: Hugo del Carril
Synopsis: The brothers Santos and Rufino Peralta (of Carril and Laxalt) are used like animals in the workplace at the Parana Stop. There they encounter enormous hardship and inhuman conditions of work as a consequence of the immense greed of the managers. A worker’s rebellion is maturing, to the point that it is developed into trade union of workers who respond against their grief. Finally, the workers plot a counterattack and punish their corrupt employers.
112m; U.S.
Director: Julie Dash
Cast: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers and Barbarao
Synopsis: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastion of these mores in America. Set in 1902.
10m
Director: LA Alliance for a New Economy
Synopsis: Victory of a community-labor coalition that defeated Wal-Mart’s efforts to locate a mega-store in Inglewood.
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