Director: Ross Spears
Synopsis (WorldCat): Presents the fifty-year controversial history of the Tennessee Valley Authority, focusing on the officials who led it and the people whose lives were touched by it.
Website: http://www.ageefilms.org/ev.html
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The Emerging Woman (1974)
40m; U.S.
Director: The Women’s Film Project
Synopsis: Uses film clips, old photographs, and newsreel footage to trace women’s struggle to attain equal rights in education, employment, politics and in the courts.
Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
99m; U.S.
Director: Werner Herzog
Synopsis: A study of the motives and philosophies of marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, and truck drivers who work in extreme conditions as far away from society as one can get at the Antarctic compound of the National Science Foundation.
Contact: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion Spiegelgasse 9 Vienna 1010 Austria Phone: +43 1 512 9444 Fax: +43 1 512 9398 http://www.wernerherzog.com/ office@wernerherzog.com
The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
80m; U.S.S.R.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Cast: Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov and Ivan Chuvelyov
Synopsis: A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed peasant is also arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns ready for revolution.
End of the Line (2008)
76m; Brazil
Director: Gustavo Steinberg
Cast: Rubens de Falco, Leonardo Medeiros, Maria Padilha, Daniela Camargo, Gisella Reiman, Lulu Pavarin, Turíbio Ruiz
Synopsis: Humorous, satirical and cleverly constructed début by Steinberg slowly but surely knots together seven stories from everyday Brazilian life. It all comes down to money, money, money: from the Indians who want to be paid for their rain dance to the politician who just can’t help winning the lottery, time and again.
Contact: Hubert Bals Fund (http://www.fimdalinha.com.br/index_en.html) / Hubert Bals Fund, bits@osfilmes.com.br
End of the Rainbow (2007)
52m or 83m;
Director: Robert Nugent
Synopsis: End of the Rainbow provides a concise, in-depth look at the impact of global extractive industries on local populations, their economy, their traditions and their environment. It depicts in striking details the confrontation of two cultures, one indigenous the other a unique reflection of the age of globalization. The film uses a gold mine in Guinea to explore whether concessions granted to transnational corporations are in the interest of the companies, the governing elite or the local community.
Enjoy Poverty (2008)
52m
Director: Renzo Martins
Synopsis: An investigation of the emotional and economic value of Africa’s most lucrative export: filmed poverty. Deep in the interiors of the Congo, Dutch artist Renzo Martens single-handedly undertakes an epic journey and launches an emancipatory program that helps the poor become aware of what is their primary capital resource: Poverty
Enthusiasm (1931)
67m
Director: Dziga Vertov
Synopsis (WorldCat): Dziga Vertov’s first sound film, a documentary on the coal miners of the Don Basin, is notable for its experiemental use of sound montages, organized by Vertov with an attention equal to his complex segmented visuals, so that each element possesses both autonomy and a contrapuntal, denotational relation to the other.
Entrenched Abuse: Forced Labor in Burma (2004)
11m; Burma
Director:Christine Umali
Synopsis: Forced labor in Burma.
Contact: christine@witness.org 718 783 2000 x.342 (Work)
Entry Level (2007)
85m; U.S.
Director: Douglas Horn
Cast: D.B. Sweeney, Missi Pyle and Cedric Yarbrough
Synopsis: A 38-year old former chef starts all over again when he interviews for entry-level corporate jobs–and can’t get one.
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