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The Long Ride

07 Mar

The Long Ride is a timely new feature-length documentary about the historic 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride that sparked the new Civil Rights Movement for immigrant workers in the United States. Alarmed by increasing abuse of immigrants in the workplace, more than 900 immigrants and allies traveled across America to focus public attention on the plight of immigrant workers and to call for reform of the broken immigration system. They were inspired by the 1961 Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders who risked their lives fighting to end segregation. The film chronicles their journey and the on-going fight for immigrant rights to this day. With Freedom Riders as our navigators, the film puts a human face on this controversial issue and examines the human costs as lawmakers consider overhaul of the U.S. immigration system.

http://www.thelongride.film

Valerie Lapin Ganley
Producer/Director
Share Productions
Valerie@ShalomIreland.com
(650)455-3300
http://www.share.productions
http://www.thelongride.film
http://www.shalomireland.com

 
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Posted by on March 7, 2018 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

Heather Booth: Changing the World

07 Mar

Heather Booth: Changing the World

2016 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1 hour

Release date: July 27, 2017 (CA)
Director: Lilly Rivlin
Editor: Pola Rapaport
Music composed by: Kyle Casey Chu
Producer: Lilly Rivlin
Cast: Heather Booth
Cinematography: Jo Freeman, Julie Gaynin, Michael Moser, MORE

heatherbooththefilm@gmail.com

Women Make Movies

coshea@wmm.com | http://www.wmm.com

 
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Posted by on March 7, 2018 in Documentary, Organizing, Philosophy, Politics, Women

 

Bricks

07 Mar

Carine Chichkowsky, a French filmmaker with the production company Survivance. She’s the producer of a new film called BRICKS, which looks at the brick manufacturing industry in Spain as a metaphor for the ramifications of the 2008 housing crisis.
Here’s the trailer. https://vimeo.com/169657849

 

 
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Posted by on March 7, 2018 in Construction Trades, Documentary, Global Economy, Housing, Unemployment-Wages

 

We the Workers

07 Mar

Chosen by Ai Weiwei as a companion piece to his “Trace” exhibit at the Hirshhorn, is a documentary about workers’ rights in China. Shot over six years, the film depicts labor activists striving to better the lives of the country’s workers — their aims do not go over well, as they are threatened and attacked on a regular basis.

 
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Posted by on March 7, 2018 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!

07 Mar

U.S.A. (Director: Morgan Spurlock, Screenwriters: Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock, Producers: Keith Calder, Jessica Calder, Spencer Silna, Nicole Barton, Jeremy Chilnick, Matthew Galkin) — Muckraking filmmaker Morgan Spurlock reignites his battle with the food industry – this time from behind the register – as he opens his own fast food restaurant. U.S. Premiere (Sundance 2018)

 
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Posted by on March 7, 2018 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Service Workers

 

Xmas without China (2013)

02 Mar

Directed By: Alicia Dwyerl
Runtime: 70 min
Stars: – – –

Synopsis: Exploring the intersection of commercialism and immigration in American culture, the documentary filmmakers follow their friend and fellow filmmaker Tom Xia on an intimate, humorous journey to get to know his neighbors

 
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Posted by on March 2, 2017 in Documentary, Global Economy, Manufacturing, Working Class

 

When Two Worlds Collide (2016)

02 Mar

Directed By: Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel
Runtime: 1 hr 43 min
Stars: – – –

Synopsis: An indigenous environmental activist takes on the large businesses that are destroying the Amazon.

 
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Posted by on March 2, 2017 in Documentary, Environment

 

Union Maids (1976)

24 Feb

Directed By: Julia Reichert
Runtime: 50 min
Stars: Kate Hyndman, Stella Nowicki, Sylvia Woods

Synopsis: actions of the time and the current state of the labor movement. Accompanied by a lot of vintage folk music.

 
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Posted by on February 24, 2017 in Documentary, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo), Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Unemployment-Wages

 

Limpiadores (2015)

24 Feb

Directed by: Fernando González Mitjáns
Running Time: 25 min
Starring:  

Website: N/a

Synopsis: Before professors and students arrive for their morning classes at some of London’s most prestigious universities, these are the people who are finishing work. Fleeing the social and political instability of their home countries, many Latin Americans come to London looking for work opportunities and a safe environment to raise and educate their children. In turn, they are confronted with discrimination, labour exploitation and social “invisibility”. Outsourced as cleaning staff, Latin American immigrants have suffered for years in the hands of profit-led outsourcing businesses.

 
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Posted by on February 24, 2017 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

Last Reel (2015)

24 Feb

Directed by: Steven Bognar
Running Time: 8 min
Starring:  

Website: N/a

Synopsis:  Film projectionists at the Little Art Theatre in Ohio speak about the craft of 35mm projection and the heartache in transitioning to digital formats, feeling the loss of yet another handcrafted profession.

 
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Posted by on February 24, 2017 in Documentary, Entertainment Industry, Short, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo), Technology

 
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