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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When Two Worlds Collide (2016)
Union Maids (1976)
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.
Last Reel (2015)
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.
If You Could Walk In My Shoes (2015)
Directed by: Ricardo E. Causo
Running Time: 27 min
Starring:
Website: N/a
Synopsis: Roberto Marquez is an artisan from Ecuador, who immigrated to the United States over 14 years ago. He has been living and working in New York City as a shoe cobbler, and is an undocumented immigrant. In 2013, Roberto, and his wife Maria, welcomed a baby girl into their family. A first-generation American Citizen. Roberto struggles to support his family, here and abroad. In spite of the odds they are up against, he reflects on his own life, and the future he wants for his family
Human Resources (2015)
Directed by: Keil Troisi
Running Time: 75 min
Starring: Sonia Williams, Aaron Troisi, James Goode
Website: Human Resources Movie
Synopsis: In this ghost story for the 99%, a young woman who lands a new job discovers that the skyscraper she works in is haunted by victims of the corporation’s cutthroat pursuit of profit. Unable to ignore injustices embodies by the disembodied, she sets out to reveal the truth and stop her bosses before their seemingly benign business operations kill again.
Harlan County USA (1976)
Directed by: Barbara Kopple
Running Time: 103 min
Starring: Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks
Website: N/a
Synopsis: A filmed account of a bitterly violent miner strike.
We The Workers (2017)
Directed by: Wen Hai
Running Time: 174 min
Starring:
Website: N/a
Synopsis:After an imposing opening in which Chinese labourers work on a giant metal construction and the sounds of angle grinders and hammers on metal come together rhythmically, the documentary switches to the seamier side of the Chinese economic miracle – the exploitation of hundreds of millions of workers. Experiences gathered by specialised bureaus defending workers’ rights expose a practice of underpayment, bad working conditions and wrongful dismissal. Activists are arrested and abused – sometimes by criminals, sometimes just by the police. Lawyers are pestered and discouraged from taking cases. The bureaus themselves are regarded by the state as troublemakers, but they are the ones encouraging workers not to strike and to solve disagreements under the law. Yet some keep their doors permanently locked and only let people they know inside, for fear of reprisals. In terms of labour rights, China is several decades behind Europe, and people who want to do something about that are subjected to intimidation. Or worse.
Hard Labor (2015) (Trabalhar Cansa)
Directed by: Marco Dutra & Juliana Rojas
Running Time: 1 hr 39 min
Starring: Helena Albergaria, Marat Descartes, Naloana Lima
Website: N/a
Synopsis: Young housewife Helena is on the verge of fulfilling a dream as she prepares to open her own business: a neighborhood grocery store. She hires a maid, Paula, to take care of her house and daughter. But when her husband Otavio is suddenly fired from his job as an insurance executive, Helena is left to support the family alone. As Otavio fails to find work and becomes increasingly alienated, business struggles to take off and the pressure on Helena mounts. To make things worse, she discovers that one of the building’s brick walls seems to be crumbling. Helena begins to wonder if that may be the cause of all her problems.
Great Unsung Women of Computing: The Computers, The Coders and The Future Makers (2016)
Directed by: Kathy Kleiman, Jon Palfreman and Kate McMahon
Running Time: 48 min
Starring: N/a
Website: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c188.shtml
Synopsis: In the United States, women are vastly underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) fields, holding under 25% of STEM jobs and a disproportionately low share of STEM undergraduate degrees. Great Unsung Women of Computing is a series of three remarkable documentary films that show how women revolutionized the computing and Internet technology we use today, inspiring female students to believe that programming careers lie within their grasp.
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