47m; Denmark
Director: Miki Mistrati and U Roberto Romano
Synopsis (IMDB): A team of journalists investigate how human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels the worldwide chocolate industry. The crew interview both proponents and opponents of these alleged practices, and use hidden camera techniques to delve into the gritty world of cocoa plantations.
Contact: http://www.thedarksideofchocolate.org/
80m; U.S.
Director: Wayne Price
Cast: Mevlut Akkaya, Lucas Akoskin and Alex Aldi
Synopsis (IMDB): New York City’s most famous and powerful nightclub gatekeeper, Trevor W., has somehow managed to lose his job at the door – but can’t shake the documentary film crew following him. Trevor will play tour guide on his awkward journey down to earth as he comes to terms with his ego, identity and career options
60m; Ireland
Director: Socialist Party of Ireland
Synopsis (Indybay): “The GAMA Strike – We Are Workers Not Slaves” by the Socialist Party of Ireland describes how Turkish workers took on their employer, Turkish-owned multinational construction giant GAMA. Assisted by the Socialist Party (Ireland), whose members first exposed the scandalous wages and conditions being paid by GAMA to its Turkish workers, they engaged in a bitter and hard fought battle, which eventually brought GAMA to heel.
Contact: Full documentary available to view here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8522850390691204183
80m; U.S.
Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Cast: Danny Glover, Daryl Hannah and Antonio Villaraigosa
Synopsis (IMDB): The 14 acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles was the largest of it’s kind in the United States. It was started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992. Since that time, the South Central Farmers have created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community. But now bulldozers threaten their oasis. The Garden is an unflinching look at the struggle between these urban farmers and the City of Los Angeles and a powerful developer who want to evict them and build warehouses.
103m; U.S.
Director: John Carlos Frey
Cast: John Carlos Frey, Michelle Agnew and Anne Betancourt
Synopsis (IMDB): Adam Fields is a rage-filled U.S. Border Patrol Agent who often crosses the line in his job. A member of a vigilante group, Fields decides to go undercover with a hidden camera and cross with a group of undocumented immigrants. His plan goes awry, however, when the group is forced to work for a drug ring. Suddenly, Fields realizes that he has more in common with the migrants and their search for home, family and freedom than he thought.
84m; U.S.
Director: Hal Hartley
Cast: Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd and Tatiana Abracos
Synopsis (IMDB): In the not-distant-future, the market has taken over everything, thanks to the marketers. The consumer is king, and those who see value outside of the marketplace are “enemies of the consumer”, terrorists, and “partisan” enemies that the state must dispose of. Protagonist Jack seems to be at one with the media corporations (after all, his marketing ideas led to the institutionalization of the exchange of sex for enhanced buying power), but is he somehow involved with the feeble and pathetic resistance movement? Does he love Cecile, his colleague, or is she a pawn in his game? And what of the mysterious girl from Monday? Are immigrants from the star system “Monday” really assisting the partisans?
54m; U.S., 2010
Director: Gilbert Gonzalez/Vivian Price
http://harvestofloneliness.com/
Synopsis: History of bracero program and its value of totally controlled workers to Big Agriculture
Contact: Vivian Price: 562-438-9493 vprice@csudh.edu
146m; U.S.
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer
Synopsis (IMDB): Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives — and a Mississippi town — upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Davis), Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, is the first to open up — to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter’s life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories — and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly — and unwillingly — caught up in the changing times.
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