Director: Laura Deutch
Synopsis: Addresses importance of the union to organize and educate workers, particularly immigrant workers, about their rights in the workplace.
Contact: laura.deutch@gmail.com
Category Archives: Genre
The Wide Blue Road (1957)
103m; Italy
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast: Yves Montand, Alida Valli and Francisco Rabal
Synopsis (IMDB): Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
68m; U.S.
Director: William A. Wellman
Synopsis: Presents a picture of hobo towns of jobless youth springing up during the depression in the US
Wild Caught (2006)
98m; U.S.
Director: Matthew Barr
Synopsis: Effects of globalization on small-sclae fishing in N.C.
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
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