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Moonlighting (1982)

20 Apr

97m; U.K.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast:  Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski and Jirí Stanislav

Synopsis (IMDB): A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Drama, Global Economy, Migrant workers, Working Class

 

Morristown: In The Air and Sun

20 Apr

60m; U.S.
Director: Anne Lewis

Synopsis: Making the connections between immigration and the global economy In this hour-long documentary, director Ann Lewis chronicles nearly a decade of change in Morristown, Tennessee, through interviews with displaced or low-wage Southern workers, Mexican immigrants, and workers and families impacted by globalization. The film shows how working-class people in Mexico and eastern Tennessee are caught in the throes of massive economic change, challenging their assumptions about work, family, nation and community. “Morristown” is in Spanish and English with subtitles

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

My Bicycle (Bisikletim) [2006]

20 Apr

12m; Turkey

Cast: Esra Var, Seda Özdemir, Ercan Çof, Tolga Sert

Synopsis: Temporary workers in Turkey.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Migrant workers

 

New Harvest, Old Shame (1990)

20 Apr

57m; U.S.

Director: Hector Galan

Synopsis (IMDB): A sequel to Edward R. Murrow’s famous Harvest of Shame documentary, showing the deplorable conditions of migrant farm workers in 1960, found little has changed in 30 years.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers, Safety & Health

 

Nosotros Venceremos (We Shall Overcome)

20 Apr

11m; U.S.

Director: Jon Lewis

Synopsis: Farm Workers’ struggle in the US.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

Of Mice and Men (1992)

20 Apr

115m; U.S.

Director: Gary Sinise

Cast: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise and Ray Walston

Synopsis (IMDB): Based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, George and Lennie, who wander the country during the Depression, dreaming of a better life for themselves. Then, just as heaven is within their grasp, it is inevitably yanked away. The film follows Steinbeck’s novel closely, exploring questions of strength, weakness, usefulness, reality and utopia, bringing Steinbeck’s California vividly to life.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Drama, Migrant workers, Unemployment-Wages, Working Class

 

Pitfall (Otoshiana) [1962]

20 Apr

97m; Japan

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast: Hisashi Igawa, Kunie Tanaka, Hideo Kanze, Sen Yano, Kazuo Miyahara, Sumie Sasaki, Kei Sato

Synopsis: A miner (Hiroshi Segawa) and his son (Kazuo Miyahara) set out to find work in Western Japan after a spate of fruitless endeavours.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Migrant workers

 

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Troubled Harvest (1990)

19 Apr

30m

Directors: Sharon Genasci and Dorothy Velasco

Synopsis (Women Make Movies): This award-winning documentary examines the lives of women migrant workers from Mexico and Central America as they work in grape, strawberry and cherry harvests in California and the Pacific Northwest. Interviews with women farm workers reveal the dangerous health effects of pesticides on themselves and their children, the problems they encounter as working mothers of young children, and the destructive consequences of U.S. immigration policies on the unity of their families. Featuring an interview with Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union.

Website: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c72.shtml

 
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Posted by on April 19, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Migrant workers, Safety & Health, Women

 

Europlex (2003)

17 Apr

20m

Directors: Ursula Biemann and Angela Sanders

Synopsis (Women Make Movies): The fourth in Ursula Biemann’s critically acclaimed series of video essays that investigates migration across borders, EUROPLEX, a collaboration with Angela Sanders, tracks the daily, sometimes illicit, border crossings between Morocco and Spain- a rare intersection of the first and third worlds. Paying off officials to look the other way, workers smuggle contraband across the border, sometimes crossing up to 11 times a day. In a now common scenario of global economics, Moroccan women work in North Africa to produce goods destined for the European market. And in perhaps the most surreal example of border logic, domesticas commute into a Spanish enclave in Moroccan territory, losing two hours as they step into the European time zone. With a mesmerizing soundtrack and a dizzying blend of video footage, digital graphics and text, the film exposes a fascinating, often hidden layer in the cultural and economic landscape between Europe and Africa- revealing the new rules and profound implications of globalization.

Website: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c620.shtml

 
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Posted by on April 17, 2012 in Documentary, Migrant workers, Women

 

Escuela (School) [2002]

17 Apr

53m

Director: Hannah Weyer

Synopsis (Women Make Movies): There are over 800,000 students enrolled in migrant education programs in the United States and, of those, only 45-50% ever finish high school. ESCUELA, the sequel to Hannah Weyer’s critically acclaimed documentary LA BODA, personalizes these glaring statistics through the honest portrait of a teenage Mexican-American farm worker, Liliana Luis.

Website: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c573.shtml

 
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Posted by on April 17, 2012 in Children, Documentary, Farm & Food, Migrant workers

 
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