56m; Australia
Director: Jason van Genderen
Synopsis: Story of the 1929 Australian mineworker lockout, aka the Rothbury Riots, that country’s most violent industrial conflict.
Contact: greg@lockout.tv 61 413 017 771 (Cell)
Category Archives: Documentary
Long Distance Love (2009)
77m; Russia
Director: Magnus Gertten, Elin Jönsson
Synopsis: Kyrgyzstan today: Just married Alisher (18y) has to leave his pregnant wife Dildora (17y) to work in Russia, 3.500 km from home. He’s one of the 12-16 million Russian guest workers, who are forced to leave their countries and work, mostly illegally, under harsh conditions in low-paid jobs in order to support their families. After eight months of hardship in Moscow, Alisher decides to return to his young family, although he has failed to earn enough money to provide for them. This is a love story clouded by migration and modern slavery.
Long Road Home (1991)
Synopsis: The struggles of California immigrant workers and labor agitators against their employers.
Los Mexicanos: The Struggle For Justice Of Patricia Perez
Year: 2007
Director: Charles Latour
Producer: Charles Latour
Country: Canada
Time: 60 Minutes
Every year, some 4000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico labour in Quebec farms to plant and pick vegetables in Canada. In the summer of 2006 Patricia Perez, a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW, launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms South of Montreal. She struggles to protect them by bringing them under a union that would give them the same rights as Canadian agricultural workers. This film is about the injustices of globalisation, not in the Third World, but in Canada.
Los Tabaqueros (2006)
8m; U.S.-Cuba
Director: Francisco Gonzalez, Russell Griffin
Synopsis: A passion for work, a pursuit of art, and the leaves of the tobacco plant combine to create pleasure and pride for these Cuban-American cigar makers.
Contact: Found on the 2007 Palm Springs Film Festival: http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=19323&FID=31
Los Trabajadores / The Workers (2001)
48m; U.S.
Director: Heather Courtney
Synopsis: Immigrant workers.
Contact: Women Make Movies 212-925-0606 Director: 512-371-1337; hcourtney85@hotmail.com
Losers And Winners (2006)
96m; Germany
Director: Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke
Synopsis: German efficiency and Chinese industriousness pass each other on globalization’s economic ladder.
Contact: Hans-Peter Metzler Submission Contact buero.metzler@t-online.de +49 (0)7542 951270 (Work)
Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)
87m; U.S.
Director: Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk
Cast: Santino Majok Chuor and Peter Kon Dut
Synopsis: Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa’s cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia
Lost Eden (unreleased)
Director: Elsa Rassbach
Story of the women in the textile mills of Massachusetts in the 1840s; completed but has never aired?
http://www.commondreams.org/elsa–rassbach
Love and Diane (2002)
155m;
Director: Jennifer Dworkin
Cast: Diane Hazzard, Donyaeh Hazzard and Love Hazzard
Synopsis (IMDB): Documentary on a recovering crack addict and her troubled daughter as they navigate the obstacles of joblessness, parenthood, welfare, and public housing.
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