57m; U.S.
Director: Kathy Leichter & Jonathan Skurnik
Tracks three welfare-recipients’ involvement in New York’s controversial Work Experience Program (WEP), the largest welfare-to-work transition program in the United States.
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61m; U.S.
Director: Ellery Cadiz and Enoch Hicks
Synopsis: The film has 15 chapters that cover everything from the origin of coal to a tribute for a miner’s family servicemen. Additional short films cover a history of mining safety, a history of mining machinery, a simulated mine explosion, and a portrait of War, WV.
Contact: Cadiz/Hicks Productions http://www.aflamingrock.com enie31@aol.com 937-258-2306
112m; U.K.
Director: John Schlesinger
A young man (Alan Bates), inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend’s (June Richie) pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law due to a housing shortage in their Northern England town.
113m; France
Director: Robert Guediguian
love & struggle in a ethnic working class neighborhood in Marseilles
60m
Director: Michel Fraser
Synopsis (A Life in Print): A LIFE IN PRINT is a one-hour documentary profiling San Francisco Bay area printmaker Xavier Viramontes, one of the most influential artists of our time and a founding member of Galeria de la Raza. His iconoclast silkscreen poster Boycott Grapes for the United Farmworkers awakened a nation and rallied the Chicano movement in art.
Website: http://www.alifeinprint.net
Contact: Lindsay Dedo ldedo@cinemaguild.com
88m; U.S.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: James Cagney, Barbara Hale, and Anne Francis
92m
Director: Jill Freidberg
Synopsis: When the people of Oaxaca decided they’d had enough of bad government, they didn’t take their story to the media…they TOOK the media.
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5m; U.S.
Director: Terry Lively
A short film on the West Virginia Public Workers Union – United Electrical Workers Local 170. State, county, and municipal workers in West Virginia brought the only union controlled by the rank and file to the state in spring 2007, marking a new chapter in organizing blue and white collar government workers. Terry Lively, a member of UE Local 170, and president of the West Virginia Filmmakers Guild, began a new film about contemporary unions in the state.
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