15m; U.S.
Director: Diane Krauthamer
Synopsis: A short documentary that chronicles the struggles and victories of the Starbucks Workers Union, from how it formed, to members continuing to organize.
Contact: Diane Krauthamer iw@iww.org
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Together We’re Stronger (2008)
Director: Claire Harbage
Synopsis: Personal accounts of UCSC (CA) workers and their roles in union struggle. Work in progress; mostly of local interest.
Contact: Claire Harbage charbage@ucsc.edu
Tokyo Sonata (2009)
121m; Japan
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa (Ryuhei Sasaki), Kyoko Koizumi (Megumi Sasaki), Yu Koyanagi (Takashi Sasaki), Kai Inowaki (Kenji Sasaki), Haruka Igawa (Kaneko), Kanji Tsuda (Kurosu), Koji Yakusho (Thief)
Synopsis (IMDB): An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
Contact: Regent Releasing 310-806-4288 info@regentreleasing.com http://www.regentreleasing.com
The Toll (2006)
8m; U.S.
Director: J. Zachary Pike
Synopsis: ‘docu’-mentary about the Troll who collects the toll for crossing the bridge.
Contact: info@hatchling.com 603-436-0056 Found on 2007 Palm Springs Short Film Fest: http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=19323&FID=31
Toni (1935)
81m; France
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván and Jenny Hélia
Synopsis (IMDB): In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently – like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.
Totally Connected (2006)
4m;
Director: Randy Brown
Synopsis: Overwork Overbearing supervision Invasion of privacy (including GPS tracking) Impact of technology.
Contact: Randy Brown randy@brownragfilms.com 512-698-7328
Tower Colliery (2008)
11m; U.K.
Director: Claire Pollak
Synopsis: The success story of miners who pooled their redundancy money to purchase the land and mine to run Tower Colliery as a workers’ co-operative.
Contact: Brought to our attention in 2010 by: Nicola Seyd for London Socialist Film Co-op nseyd@hotmail.com
Trace of Stones (1966)
139m; East Germany
Director: Frank Beyer
Cast: Manfred Krug, Krystyna Stypulkowska and Jutta Hoffmann
Synopsis (IMDB): Hannes Balla is the foreman of a group of building construction workers at the large construction site “Schkona” in the GDR. They spend most of their time working hard and drinking harder – to some they are fun, to some they are a public nuisance. Things get more complicated when the good-looking Kati Klee is employed as a young technician, and the ambitious new Party Secretary, Werner Horrath, aims to boost work efficiency and downsize Balla’s ego. Kati slowly warms up to Werner, but is also attracted to Balla’s nonconformity. A contemporary movie about work, love, and everything in between.
Traces of the Trade
Synopsis: fascinating film made by a descendant of the largest slave trader in U.S. history
Trade Secrets-The Hidden Costs of the FTAA (2002)
16m; U.S.
Director: Jeremy Blasi
Synopsis: Examination of the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
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