98m; U.S.
Director: Matthew Barr
Synopsis: Effects of globalization on small-sclae fishing in N.C.
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Wild River (1960)
110m; U.S.
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick and Jo Van Fleet
Synopsis (IMDB): A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man’s love affair with that woman’s widowed granddaughter.
The Wilmar 8 (1981)
55m; U.S.
Director: Lee Grant
Synopsis (IMDB): Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.
Windows (2002)
22m; U.S.
Director: David Koff
Synopsis: Immigrant workers die 9/11 in Trade Tower disaster.
Winter Story (Dong tian de gu shi) [2007]
102m; China
Director: Zhu Chuan-ming
Cast: Mao Mao, An Qi
Synopsis: Broad, realistic love story set in a cold winter in a poor outer suburb of Beijing. In the middle of the bustle and the crowds, a clothes seller and a prostitute find each other. But will it make them any happier?
Contact: International Film Festival Rotterdam Production Department: production@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afganistan (2008)
65m; U.S.
Synopsis: Iraq Veterans Against the War testify about the atrocities they witnessed while deployed in the occupations of Afganistan & Iraq.
Contact: http://www.IVAW.org
With Babies and Banners (1978)
45m; U.S.
Director: Lorraine W. Gray
Synopsis (IMDB): From December 1936 to February 1937 members of the United Auto Workers organized a sit-down strike inside the General Motors Fisher Body 1 and 2 plants in Flint, Michigan. They ultimately won recognition of their union and improved wages and conditions. “With Babies and Banners” tells the story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade, composed of female GM workers and the wives of men involved in the sit-down strike, which not only provided support services (like running the union kitchens that provided food to the strikers occupying the plants) but did picket duty themselves. It intercuts footage from 1937 with interviews with the same women 40 years later, still active in union politics and still pressuring the UAW to acknowledge women as equals.
Director/Producer/Creator/Executive Producer/National & International distributor of the documentary films by Lorraine W Gray: With Babies & Banners and The Global Assembly Line.
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