30m; U.S.
Director: Sue Hagedorn
Synopsis: 83 day nurses’ strike.
Contact: www.holdingthelinefilm.com
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The Hollywood Librarian: A Look At Librarians Through Film (2007)
96m; U.S.
Director: Ann Seidl
Synopsis: How librarians are seen in film.
Contact: http://www.hollywoodlibrarian.com Melissa McGuire; mdmcguire@charter.net
Home (Acasa) [2007]
14m; Romania
Director: Paul Negoescu
Cast: Gabriel Spahiu, Marian Ralea
Synopsis: Honest drama about a taxi driver and his customer who discover the negative sides of emigration.
Contact: International Film Festival Rotterdam Production Department: production@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
Home Safe Calgary (2008)
99m; Canada
Director: Laura Sky
Synopsis: Children and families in Calgary who experience poverty and homelessness. In a boom economy, even parents with decent paying jobs struggle to put a roof over their families’ heads.
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
129m; U.S.
Director: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and John Carradine
Synopsis (IMDB): A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Fun With Dick and Jane (1977)
95m; U.S.
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cast: Jane Fonda, George Segal, Ed McMahon
Synopsis (IMDB): When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (1981)
63m; U.S.
Director: Joanne Grant
Synopsis: FUNDI: THE STORY OF ELLA BAKER reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker played in shaping the American civil rights movement, such as helping to launch the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The dynamic activist was affectionately known as the Fundi, a Swahili word for a person who passes skills from one generation to another.
Contact: First Run Icarus Film (http://www.frif.com/cat97/f-j/fundi45.html)
Fury (1936)
92m; U.S.
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy and Walter Abel
Synopsis: When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.
Fury Below (1936)
58m; U.S.
Director: Harry L. Fraser
Cast: Russell Gleason, Maxine Doyle and LeRoy Mason
Synopsis (IMDB): Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if production doesn’t increase and the sabotage continues. Mary Norsen, office-secretary, accidentally learns of a plot by Fred Johnson to wreck the mine and force Cole to sell his coal-mine. She and her brother, Joe, join Cole in his fight to stop Johnson
Gaijin: A Brazilian Odyssey (1980)
112m
Director: Tizuka Yamasaki
Cast: Kyoko Tsukamoto, Antônio Fagundes and Jiro Kawarazaki
Synopsis (IMDB): Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.
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