99m; Canada
Director: Laura Sky
Synopsis: Children and families in Calgary who experience poverty and homelessness. In a boom economy, even parents with decent paying jobs struggle to put a roof over their families’ heads.
Category Archives: Children
The Children of Golzow (1961-2007)
2570m
Director: Winfried Junge
Synopsis (Filmmuseum Pottsdam): n 1961, Winfried Junge took up the idea and vision of documentary filmmaker Karl Gass to make a film about a school class and to accompany the children’s life with the camera. No one would have thought that the story of the children from a small village in the Oderbruch would, one day, become a work portraying GDR everyday life, the German reunification and the first steps into a new everyday life.
America Now: Children of the Harvest (2010)
60m
Broadcast Date: NBC, July 19, 2010
Producers: David Corvo, Nick Capote and Rayner Ramirez
Synopsis (Dateline NBC): For thousands of children in America, summer means hard labor in the hot sun. They’re migrant laborers working alongside their struggling parents on America’s farms. Dateline took its cameras and found a story of hardship, perserverence, and love.
Website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38312193/ns/dateline_nbc/t/america-now-children-harvest/
The Corn is Green (1945)
115m; U.S.
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce
Synopsis: Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent her space. Using part of her own home, she goes ahead with Miss Moffat’s School. One of her students Morgan Evans turns from bully to brilliant student.
The Corn is Green (1979)
94m; U.S.
Director: George Cuckor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor and Bill Fraser
Synopsis: A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him.
Cry of the Children (1912)
29m; U.S.
Director: George O. Nicholas
Synopsis: An expression of the pre-World War One reform movement concerning child labor.
Daens (1993)
138m; Holland
Director: Stijn Coninx
Synopsis: In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers.
Contact: Jan Marijnissen, jmarijnissen@sp.nl (guy I met 8/14; will get me more info on Dutch labor films)
Day by Day (2004)
70m; Israel
Director: Ayelet Bargur
Synopsis: At-risk teens in Jerusalem apartment project struggle to maintain normal life and keep off the streets.
Contact: Ayelet Bargur, eyelet6@013.net 971-3-6041225; 972-52-2204734
Do They Catch Children Too? (2003)
49m; Israel
Director: Hedva Galili-Smolinsky
Synopsis: Immigrant workers’ children in Israel.
Eight Times Up / Huit Fois Debout (2009)
103m; France
Director: Xabi Molia
Synopsis: Elsa scrapes through to the end of each month by doing odd jobs. At night, she cleans buses in a deserted coach station, during the day she looks after a child for a young couple. Hoping to land a job with a contract, she attends interviews with disastrous results. Her neighbour Mathieu is also looking for work and seems to have achieved perfection in the art of failing interviews. One day, Elsa is evicted from her flat. She finds herself faced with a life of uncertainty with only a potted plant for company. Mathieu occasionally makes her offers of love that she’s not ready to accept. The temptation to leave it all behind leads Elsa to a forest in which Mathieu has already found refuge and set up camp.
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