110m; U.K.
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: David Bradley, Brian Glover and Freddie Fletcher
Synopsis (IMDB): A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
Category Archives: Children
Kick Like a Girl (2008)
25m; U.S.
Director: Jenny Mackenzie
Synopsis: A soccer team of third-grade girls in Utah can’t find adequate competition against other girls’ teams and decides to enter the local boys’ league instead. The 24-minute film follows their season and the reactions of girls, boys, and parents.
Contact: http://www.kicklikeagirlmovie.com/
Kids Stonewalled at Vale-INCO Gate (2009)
5:30; U.S.
Director: Stuart Cryer
Synopsis: The strike of USW Local 6500 against Vale-INCO is into its sixth month. The strikers’ kids want to deliver their Xmas cards to Vale-INCO, but are left hanging at the company gates.
Contact: Stuart Cryer terraV@cyberbeach.net http://www.vimeo.com/8228584
L’enfant (The Infant) [2005]
95m; Belgium
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Cast: Jérémie Renier, Déborah François and Jérémie Segard
Synopsis: Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.
It Takes a Child (1998)
56m
Director: Judy Jackson
Synopsis (Bulldog Films): Craig Kielburger was 12 years old when child labor activist Iqbal Massih was killed in Pakistan. He immediately went on a seven-week trip to South Asia. What he learned has turned him into a passionate, articulate and effective advocate on behalf of child laborers everywhere. He is determined to put child labor on the international agenda. He is 15 years old in this film.
He started a child-run organization called Free the Children, which now has 10,000 members worldwide. It directs lobbying and petition efforts at governments and big business. F.I.F.A. now won’t put its logo on any soccer balls that are made with child labor. Free the Children has raised over $150,000 to buy children out of bondage and create a school for them, while raising world awareness
Contact: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/child.html
ILLEGAL (Illégal) [2010]
95m; Belgium/Luxembourg/France
Director: Olivier Masset-Depasse
Synopsis: “[A] fascinating study of perseverance in the face of subhuman treatment.” –Boyd Van Hoeij, Variety. Tania (Anne Coesens), a Russian immigrant living illegally in Belgium, is willing to do whatever it takes to prevent her son and herself from being deported. When Tania’s illegal status is discovered, she is arrested and sent to a detention center, where she meets other illegals like herself, struggling to stay in their adopted homeland. Things soon spiral out of control when she claims a false name and finds herself in the middle of a complex deportation situation. Winner, Society of Dramatic Actors and Composers’ SACD Prize, 2010 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
The Inheritance (1964)
58m; U.S.
Director: Harold Mayer and Lynne Rhodes Mayer
Synopsis: The Inheritance shows what life was really like for immigrants and working Americans from the turn of the century through the fight for civil rights in the 1960s. This stirring history of our country shows their struggle to put down roots, form labor unions, survive wars, and finally, create a new and better life for themselves and our nation.
Our film explores a landscape largely unknown to the present generation—the dim sweatshops, coal mines and textile mills filled with children; the anxious years of the depression and labor’s bloody struggle for the right to organize; the battlefields of WW I and II; the seldom seen newsreel footage of the Memorial Day massacre at The Republic Steel strike in Chicago; the civil rights struggle— as every generation fights again to preserve and extend its freedoms. This is the film’s theme.
Contact: The film is available in 4 parts on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWDPHQX0S0w
Harold Mayer and Lynne Rhodes Mayer
Harold Mayer Productions
New Milford, CT
Intolerance (1916)
163m; U.S.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Synopsis (IMDB): The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
118m; U.S.
Director: John Ford
Cast: Maureen O”Hara, Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon
Synopsis: Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided to leave his Welch valley forever, tells his story. Huw is the youngest in a family of 6 brothers and 1 sister and the film centers on his struggle toward manhood amid conflicting demands of faith, economics, education and family loyalty. Set in a Welsh mining community at the beginning of the 20th century, based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn. Welsh choral music and quaint patterns of speech are nice period details.
The Great Bazaar (2005)
56m; Mozambique
Director: Licínio Azevedo
Cast: Edmundo Mondlane, Chano Orlando, Chico António, Paito Tcheco, Manuel Adamo
Synopsis: A 12-year-old vendor, robbed in an African suburb, pursues his young robbers into the city. He begins to live in a market square that at night becomes a dormitory for homeless vendors.
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