106m; U.S.
Director: Craig Zobel
Cast: John Baker, Frances Green and James Green
Synopsis: When a man answers an ad to train as a record producer, he’s excited by the prospect of signing undiscovered artists only to discover his new job isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
72m; U.S.
Director: Ian Cheney
Synopsis: Documentary about Boston’s first residential green building, and the skeptical workers who are asked to build it.
15m; U.S.
Synopsis: A dramatized incident in an industrial plant is used in showing how grievance hearings enable representatives of labor unions and management to arrive at compromises in the settlement of disputes.
112m; U.S.
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe and George Wendt
Synopsis (IMDB): When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liason must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
74m
Director: Cecilia Ho Wing Yin
Synopsis (CLiFF): A story of Indonesian female migrant workers who left their homes to work as domestic helpers in Macao, China, a community consisting mainly of Chinese as well as a city of casinos and entertainment parlours.
5m
Directors: Larilyn Sanchez, Riza Manalo
Synopsis (IFFR): A woman who works outside the Philippines to earn money for her family sees herself forced to send her mother back home alone. She can’t pay for her own journey, but as compensation she gives her mother gifts from the rich world.
88m; U.S.
Director: Jacob Kornbluth, Josh Kornbluth
Cast: Josh Kornbluth, Warren Keith and Sarah Overman
Synopsis: Josh has an offer to “go perm” at his employer and the first task is to mail 17 high priority letters….something that seems a little difficult to do.
113m; U.S.
Director: Gordon Parks, Sr.
Synopsis (WorldCat): Based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Synopsis: Documentary about the workers who built the Golden Gate Bridge.
109m; U.S.
Director: King Vidor
Synopsis: Portrayal of rural black milieu. The film seems stereotypical now, but was originally banned in many areas for “frank” portrayal of black life.
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