55m; U.S.
Director: Kelly Candaele
Synopsis: Follows union members who came out of street gangs and prison into the building trades unions and as a result changed their lives
Contact: kcandaele@sbcglobal.net 323-547-1183 (Cell)
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Severance
96m
Director: Christopher Smith
Cast: Danny Dyer, Laura Harris and Tim McInnerny
Synopsis (IMDB): A team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe goes horribly wrong for the sales division of the multi-national weapons company Palisade Defence when they become the victims of a group of crazed killers who will stop at nothing to see them dead.
The Shipbuilders
90m; U.K.
Director: John Baxter
Cast: Clive Brook, Morland Graham and Nell Ballantyne
Synopsis: Clydeside shipbuilder and a loyal riveter fight to keep Britain a seapower
Shout Youngstown
Synopsis: Documentary on closings of steel plants in Youngstown, OH and the effects on the community.
Contact: View here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jk4ARquynE
Shutdown (1980)
26m; U.S.
Director: Laura Sky
Synopsis: This film documents the closing down of an American-owned branch plant, with all the personal trauma that such a decision causes the workers. The employees discuss the dilemma of working in an economy dominated by foreign ownership and the lack of government action to protect jobs in American-owned branch plants.
Contact: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=13252
Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Labor Struggle in the Post Office (1980)
By Tami Gold, Dan Gordon, Erik Lewis
1980, 45 minutes, Color and B&W, Video
On July 21, 1978 thousands of postal workers across the country walked off their jobs when their contract expired, saying “No” to mandatory overtime, forced speedups and hazardous working conditions. As a result of this wildcat strike, six hundred thousand postal workers won a better contract. But two hundred workers were arbitrarily fired by management to teach all postal workers a lesson.
SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED… is the story of the struggle these postal workers waged to win back their jobs. It follows their fight into the streets, onto the floor of the American Postal Workers Union’s National Convention and among workers and communities nationwide. But it took the tragic death of Michael McDermott, a 25 year old mailhandler who was sucked into a conveyor belt and crushed to death, to bring their hazardous working conditions to national attention.
SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED… speaks loudly and clearly to people everywhere who are organizing for safe and humane conditions in the workplace.
http://andersongoldfilms.com/films/documentaries/ssd.htm
Signal Seven (1986)
92m; U.S.
Director: Rob Nilsson
Cast: Bill Ackridge, Dan Leegant and John Tidwell
Synopsis (New York Times): The title refers to a radio distress call for a taxi driver in trouble and the movie is about people in various states of distress and the subtle signals for help they send out. It’s also about pride, loneliness, friendship, ambition, failure, fear and hope, as seen through the daily lives of a group of middle-aged cab drivers. The film follows two of them, Marty and Speed, played with depth and sensitivity by Dan Leegant and Bill Ackridge, through a night’s rounds at a time when one of their colleagues is brutally murdered. They audition for parts, play cards, trade tall tales, pick up fares, cope with the murder and try to get on with life.
Silent Voices (2010)
14m; Pakistan/France
Director: Aisha Gazdar
Synopsis: The stories of women home-based workers in Pakistan told in a gritty and realistic style
Sisters Of Philadelphia (2006)
11m; U.S.
Director: K. S. Haskey
Synopsis: Women in the Carpenters Union. Women in non-traditional work.
Contact: K S Haskey PO Box 154 Pedricktown, NJ 08067 ksmh@dandy.net 856-299-7914 301-395-7923 Ksmh@dandy.ne
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