30m; U.S.
Director: Jerri Zbiral
Synopsis: Celebrates the life and work of 90 year old artist and activist Peggy Lipschutz, who pioneered the “chalk-talk”— a performance art form combining drawing and music before a live audience. This film explores Peggy’s unwavering commitment to art, peace, justice and social change.
Contact: http://www.neverturningback.net/index.html jerri@thecollectedimage.com jerrizbiral@yahoo.com
Director: Gordon Quinn
USA, Kartemquin/PBS Independent Lens, 2004 (411 minutes)
Synopsis: Interweaves stories of immigrants & refugees
https://www.kartemquin.com/films/the-new-americans/about
Contact: Gordon cel: cel 773-339-7692 773-235-0816, and Kartemquin, 773-472-4366.
The New Americans follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America. We follow an Indian couple to Silicon Valley through the dot-com boom and bust. A Mexican meatpacker struggles to reunite his family in rural Kansas. Two families of Nigerian refugees (including the sister of slain Ogoni activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa) escape government persecution. Two Los Angeles Dodgers prospects follow their big dreams of escaping the barrios of the Dominican Republic. A Palestinian woman who marries into a new life in Chicago only to discover in the wake of September 11, she cannot leave behind the pain of her homeland’s conflict.
Kartemquin assembled a team of talented directors including the creators of Hoop Dreams, Who Killed Vincent Chin, and Vietnam, Long Time Coming. The detailed portraits that resulted were woven into a seven-hour miniseries that presents a kaleidoscopic picture of immigrant life and a first impression of the U.S. that few born in America can imagine.
57m; U.S.
Director: Hector Galan
Synopsis (IMDB): A sequel to Edward R. Murrow’s famous Harvest of Shame documentary, showing the deplorable conditions of migrant farm workers in 1960, found little has changed in 30 years.
55m; U.S.
Director: Lyn Goldfarb
Synopsis: A powerful portrait of a city transformed by immigration, race and labor.
Contact: Patricia Aufderheide
29m; U.S.
Synopsis: Wayne Sourbear, an employee of WSWP-TV, travels down the New River, explores the people, history and great beauty of this waterway in his 1989 short.
Contact: Access: WVPBS TV. Debbie Oleksa, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Morgantown, 1- 888-596-9729 or her cell 304-284-1455
54m; U.K.
Director: Alan Lowery, John Pilger
Synopsis (IMDB): The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. “Thinking globally” and “the global economy” are part of a jargon that assumes we are all part of one big global village, where national borders and national identities no longer matter. But what is globalisation? And where is this global village? In 2001, John Pilger made ‘The New Rulers of the World’, a film exploring the impact of globalisation. It took Indonesia as the prime example, a country that the World Bank described as a ‘model pupil’ until its ‘globalised’ economy collapsed in 1998. Globalisation has not only made the world smaller. It has also made it interdependent. An investment decision made in London can spell unemployment for thousands in Indonesia, while a business decision taken in Tokyo can create thousands of new jobs for workers in north-east England..
56m; U.S.
Director: Joseph Aguirre
Synopsis: Faced with losing their farms, three Montana families hire a rainmaker in a desperate attempt to bring relief to their drought-stricken communities. NEXT YEAR COUNTRY tells the heartfelt story of three families and the optimism which sustains them in their struggle to hold on to a vanishing way of life.
Contact: info@nextyearcountry.com
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