90m; Costa Rica
Director: Esteban Ramírez
Synopsis: A married couple must cope with unemployment, sexual tensions, and the establishment of an American oil company in their Caribbean paradise.
Contact: http://www.caribelapelicula.com/
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Carlo Giuliani, A Boy (“Carlo Giuliani, Ragazzo”) [2002]
63m; Italy
Director: Francesca Comencini
Synopsis: A profile of anti-G8 activist murdered by police in Genoa.
Contact: Print Source Rosella Gori Adriana Chiesa Enterprises Via Barnaba Oriani 24/A – 00197 Rome, Phone: 39 068 070 400 Fax: 39 068 068 7855 Email: adrianachiesa.ent@libero.it
Carry on Ken (2006)
40m; U.K.
Director: Toby Reisz
Synopsis: Profile of filmmaker Ken Loach’s life and his work.
Cartography of Ashes (2006)
44m; U.S.
Director: Dolissa Medina
Synopsis: Focuses on the San Francisco earthquake and the role of the firefighters in saving people and defending the city from the flames.
Cartoneros (2006)
60m; U.S.
Director: Ernesto Livon-Grosman
Synopsis: Economic crises forces Argentinian middle class into ranks of the Buenos Aires trash pickers.
Contact: Brittany Gravely, brittany@der.org 800.569.6621 http://www.cartonerosdoc.com/Cartoneros.html
The Catered Affair (1956)
92m; U.S.
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine and Debbie Reynolds
Synopsis: At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph’s parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates. All of a sudden, it is a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of his money is going towards a wedding neither he, or Jane or Ralph really want.
Celebrate Moe!
13m; VHS; year unknown
Produced by SEIU
About Bread and Roses Cultural Project founder Moe Foner, who, years before he went to work for labor unions, had played saxophone in a swing band with his brothers. They did gigs at upstate Borscht Belt retreats and Manhattan hotels, and along the way came to know many other musicians, as well as actors and artists. The Brothers Foner were leftists with a vision; one went on to lead the furriers’ union, two others became renowned historians. Moe worked for several unions before landing at 1199 in 1952, back when it was a small union of pharmacy employees. Even then, he was looking for ways to integrate culture with his union work. He found a sympathetic ear in 1199’s founding president, Leon Davis, one that continues with current union head Dennis Rivera, who oversaw a vastly transformed organization, representing more than 200,000 workers.
The project took its name from the slogan advanced by striking workers in the bitter 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, “We Want Bread and Roses Too.”
Cellulose (Celuloza) [1954]
120m; Poland
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Synopsis: A peasant’s son in Poland becomes politically radicalized, after moving to the big city to work in a cellulose factory.
Central Bakery O, Dridi (2002)
33m; France
Director: Camy Julien
Synopsis: Profile of Algerian baker working in France.
The Children of Golzow (1961-2007)
2570m
Director: Winfried Junge
Synopsis (Filmmuseum Pottsdam): n 1961, Winfried Junge took up the idea and vision of documentary filmmaker Karl Gass to make a film about a school class and to accompany the children’s life with the camera. No one would have thought that the story of the children from a small village in the Oderbruch would, one day, become a work portraying GDR everyday life, the German reunification and the first steps into a new everyday life.
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