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Starbucks baristas in Buffalo unite against corporate exploitation during the pandemic, sparking a generational uprising among working-class Millennials and Gen Z as they challenge a powerful billionaire CEO and fight for their rights.
World Premiere at the Buffalo International Film Festival, October 10th, 2025.
A film by Mark Mori.
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Category Archives: Documentary
Baristas vs. Billionaires (2025)
Tales From The Long Memory (2020)
54 minutes
Folk singing rabble-rouser U. Utah Phillips crisscrossed the country on freight trains searching for teachers. He experienced ultimate freedom, no home ahead and none behind but also the works of mercy. He discovered the dynamic struggle of people to organize themselves and demand a quality of life for themselves and those around them that provides bread, yes, but roses too.
Tales From the Long Memory follows the people who look to Utah as their teacher now while they continue the work that inspired him throughout his life. In Detroit, the Wobbly Kitchen shows how the simple act of feeding someone can spark a community of solidarity in a city struggling to rebuild its glory. In Madison, the sweet sounds of labor songs echo through the capital building every day at noon. In Portland, the Sisters of the Road Café serve up dignity and nourishment at a price you can afford. And in a quaint northern California gold rush town, a dedicated group of community members grow an idea into a house of hospitality called Utah’s Place.
Ida B. Wells: A Passion For Justice (1989)
54min
Documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Though virtually forgotten today, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a household name in Black America during much of her lifetime (1863-1931) and was considered the equal of her well-known African American contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.
IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells’ memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards.
“Tells of the brave life and works of the 19th century journalist, known among Black reporters as ‘the princess of the press,’ who led the nation’s first anti-lynching campaign.” – New York Times
“A powerful account of the life of one of the earliest heroes in the Civil Rights Movement…The historical record of her achievements remains relatively modest. This documentary goes a long way towards rectifying that egregious oversight.” – Chicago Sun-Times
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Haymarket: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle (2021)
1h 25m
The Chicago Haymarket tragedy, where a bomb thrown into the ranks of Police was followed by an eruption of panic and violence resulting in a trial and execution of presumably innocent workers’ rights activists, is examined in this feature documentary film. Expert historians and professors present the history of the bomb, the anarchist movement of the 19th century, and the labor struggle of working people fighting for a shorter work day during the industrial might of America’s Gilded Age.
Adrian Prawica @ FILMADRIA
Director | Executive Producer | www.filmadria.com
773-724-0867 | 847-894-3849 – Direct
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About Some Meaningless Events (1974)
Not Rated; 1h 16m
In search of a subject for their film, a group of directors ask passers-by about their expectations of Moroccan cinema in the streets and bars of Casablanca.
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- Writer
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A Suppressed Masterwork of Moroccan Political Cinema
Nevertheless (2020)
Documentary exploring women’s rights, sexual harassment, and the #metoo movement, one of the largest movements for gender equality in human history.
Website
Cornelia Weiss
koislmeier@yahoo.com
Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss (2019)
16m
Salesgirl discovers the ultimate secret to regularization.
- Director
- Writer
- Stars
A Dark Satire About Worker Exploitation in the Philippines
Room Without A View (2021)
1h 13m
The film is a kaleidoscopic gaze on the exploitative working conditions experienced by migrant domestic workers hired under the Kafala system in Lebanon. Meagre wages, manipulation and a room without windows. Lebanon’s countless maids fight back against the mechanisms of modern slavery.
Director: Roser Corella
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales (2022)
1h 27m
Filmmaker Abigail Disney examines income inequality at her family’s company, asking why the American dream seems so out of reach for so many.
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The Magic Kingdom Is Tragic for Workers
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