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Category Archives: Documentary
Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss (2019)
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
Body Parts (2022)
1h 26m
An examination of how the nude female body is hypersexualized, under attack and exploited on and off screen in Hollywood.
‘Body Parts’ Review: Even Sex Scenes Have Rules
Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike (2023)
59 minutes
“The old American dream just seems to be gone,” says Walt Hill, a longtime United Steelworkers Union member and the Contract Coordinator for Local 1196 in the decaying steel town of Brackenridge, Pennsylvania.
Local 1196 takes the viewer on the ground as days on strike turn to weeks, weeks turn to months, and union leaders realize they’re playing with a short stack, and against long odds.
Screen here and/or read more. Directed by Samuel George
Samuel.george@bfna.org
Foreign Parts (2010)
1h 21m
‘Foreign Parts’ portrays a hidden enclave of automobile shops and junk-yards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes this vibrant community of immigrants – where wrecks, refuse, and recycling form a thriving commerce – as it struggles for daily survival and contests New York City’s development scheme.
Directors Verena Paravel & J.P. Sniadecki
Singing for Justice
Singing for Justice tells the story of Faith Petric, a political radical, community organizer and charismatic performer who united folk music and progressive causes from the 1930s through the early 2000s. Narrated largely by Faith herself, the film weaves her musical and political journeys to showcase the central role of folk music in the transformational social movements of the 20th century.
Co-director: Estelle Freedman
ebf@stanford.edu
info@singingforjustice.com
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