1h 13m
The film is a kaleidoscopic gaze on the exploitative working conditions experienced by migrant domestic workers hired under the Kafala system in Lebanon. Meagre wages, manipulation and a room without windows. Lebanon’s countless maids fight back against the mechanisms of modern slavery.
Director: Roser Corella
Category Archives: Occupation/Type of Work
Room Without A View (2021)
Feed/Back
Locally produced (DC) on a low budget, when it premiered at Fade to Black Film Festival, it really energized other restaurant workers in the audience.
MacKenzie River Foy (she/they)
Storyteller | Producer | Archivist
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales (2022)
1h 27m
Filmmaker Abigail Disney examines income inequality at her family’s company, asking why the American dream seems so out of reach for so many.
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The Magic Kingdom Is Tragic for Workers
Body Parts (2022)
1h 26m
An examination of how the nude female body is hypersexualized, under attack and exploited on and off screen in Hollywood.
‘Body Parts’ Review: Even Sex Scenes Have Rules
American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System (2023)
A provocative look at the costs, closures, and inequities plaguing American hospitals, which today are more about money and power than serving Americans’ health needs of individuals and the community as a whole.
Jon Reiss
Marketing and Distribution Producer
American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System
reiss.jon@gmail.com
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Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike (2023)
59 minutes
“The old American dream just seems to be gone,” says Walt Hill, a longtime United Steelworkers Union member and the Contract Coordinator for Local 1196 in the decaying steel town of Brackenridge, Pennsylvania.
Local 1196 takes the viewer on the ground as days on strike turn to weeks, weeks turn to months, and union leaders realize they’re playing with a short stack, and against long odds.
Screen here and/or read more. Directed by Samuel George
Samuel.george@bfna.org
Full Time (2023)
- 16m
A skateboarder played by Andrew Lutheran (Goldbergs, breaking bad, Palo Alto) gets offered a full time job by a mysterious man played by Iddo Goldberg (Peaky blinders, Snowpiercer) to stand in a square all day. He is making more money the longer he stands there but his life is passing him by.
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Full Time (2021) Original title: À plein temps
- 1h 28m
Just when Julie finally gets an interview for a job that will let her raise her children better, she runs into a national transportation strike.
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“Full Time,” Reviewed: A Hectic Thriller of Everyday Life
FAIR PLAY (2023)
R; 1h 53m
Luke and Emily don’t just live together – they also work together as analysts in the high-stakes and high-pressure world of finance, forced to abide by company policy and keep their relationship secret. When a job opens up above them, Emily is thrilled to hear whispers that it might be going to Luke. But when it ultimately ends up hers, the couple is forced into a difficult situation. With the tables turned, Luke finds it harder to support her success and the pair start to unravel. With a delicacy that more genre films aiming to tackle weightier topics could afford to emulate, Domont cooly constructs a contemporary story about how a gendered disparity in finance and power can wreck a seemingly successful relationship.Back in 1994, the corporate thriller Disclosure posited that the only thing scarier than a woman scorned was a woman scorned who was also your boss, painting a laughably dated portrait of the evils of having women climb the corporate ladder. Fair Play, while recalling many a Michael Douglas thriller from Fatal Attraction to A Perfect Murder, is a smart rebuke to such misogyny. The biggest threat here ends up being a man’s ego.(Benjamin Lee, The Guardian)
Director/Writer: Chloe Domont
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