25m; South Korea
Director: Myoung-Joon Kim
Synopsis: Korean labor movement
Author Archives: Metro Council
Faces of Black Lung (2008)
13m; U.S.
Synopsis: Effect of black lung disease on coal miners
Contact: Steve Fesenmaier: fesenms@wvlc.lib.wv.us Anita L. Wolfe, (304) 285-6263, awolfe@cdc.gov
Facing the Music
Australia
Synopsis: Strike against budget cuts at Australian university music department
Factory
Director: Eveltn and Arthur Barrons
Synopsis: An excellent documentary about alienated labor in a factory making love rings.
Fair Game (2010)
108m; U.S.
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Sonya Davison
Synopsis: Based on story of Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame, the married couple who were at the centerstorm of a Washington, D.C. scandal over Plame’s outing as an undercover CIA operative by Washington Post journalist Robert Novak. The scandal, known in the press as “Plamegate”, destroyed her career and rocked the White House as accusations were leveled against the Bush administration and its allies. Ambassador Wilson made the charge that the Bush administration had knowingly leaked his wife’s covert status as a direct response for his public statements that the administration played up or outright lied that Iraq had uranium in its possession to make nuclear bombs.
Falling Down
113m; U.S.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall and Barbara Hershey
Synopsis: An unemployed defense worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
Farmingville (2004)
79m; U.S.
Director: Carlos Sandoval
Synopsis: Mexican migrant workers in Long Island face discrimination as neighbors both attack and defend them. Very timely for 2006.
Contact: Carlos Sandoval Camino Bluff Productions PO Box 1908 Amagansett, NY 11930 631-267-6565 ( Work ) 212-864-4313 ( Fax ) mail@caminobluff.com
Fast Food Nation (2006)
116m; U.S.
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis and Catalina Sandino Moreno
Synopsis: Fiction-film adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s bestselling book on the food system in the U.S. Health & safety risks involved in the fast food industry and its environmental and social consequences as well.
Contact: Linklater’s production company: Detour Filmproduction Phone: 512-322-0031 Linklater’s assistant: Sara Greene sara@detourfilm.com Eric Schlosser (author) c/o Houghton Mifflin Company Trade Division Adult Editorial, 8th Floor 222 Berkeley St Boston, MA 02116-3764 USA
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