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Raimunda: A Quebradeira (2007)

26 Apr

 

Director: Marcelo Silva

Synopsis: Raimunda: A Quebradeira is a Brazilian documentary about the women who struggle for survival collecting babaçu nuts in the Amazon. It is an inspiring story of resistance and triumph in the Brazilian forest, where War on Want partner organisztion MIQCB supports the 300,000 women who make their living from the nuts. The film provides a rare and intimate look at this remote community of women, whose ecologically sound way of life is under threat, both from the Brazilian government and big business moving in.

Contact: Brought to our attention in 2010 by: Nicola Seyd for London Socialist Film Co-op nseyd@hotmail.com

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Environment, Women

 

Renewal (2008)

26 Apr

90m; U.S.

Director: Marty Ostrow and Terry Kay Rockefeller

Synopsis: It shows individuals and communities driven by the deepest source of inspiration – their spiritual and religious convictions – being called to re-examine what it means to be human and how we live on this planet.

Contact: http://renewalproject.net/join/email_us

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Arts/Culture, Documentary, Environment

 

Rise Up! West Virginia (2008)

26 Apr

75m; U.S.

Director: B. J. Gudmundsson

Synopsis: Mountain Keepers who have been fighting a 20 year battle to save their land and homes from the destructive practices of coal mining and especially mountaintop removal mining.

Contact: Patchwork Films Email: bj@patchworkfilms.com Patchwork Films mailing address 106 Lamplighter Drive Lewisburg, West Virginia 24901 Phone B. J. Gudmundsson 304-645-4998 Email Doug Chadwick 304-653-4916 Email Joan C. Browning 304-645-6799 Email

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Environment, Organizing

 

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The Scar (1976)

26 Apr

112m; Poland

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Cast: Franciszek Pieczka, Mariusz Dmochowski and Jerzy Stuhr

Synopsis (IMDB): 1970. After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live in the small town where the factory is to be built, his wife used to be a Party activist there, and he has unpleasant memories of it. But he sets to the task in the belief that he will build a place where people will live and work well. His intentions and convictions, however, conflict with those of the townspeople who are primarily concerned with their short-term needs. Disillusioned, Bednarz gives up his post.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Drama, Environment, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing

 

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Living By the River (2009)

20 Apr

24m; Nepal

Director: Manoj Raj Pandey

Synopsis: Documentary about one of the marginalized group of people who have been living and working on the bank of Narayani River in Nepal for generations. After the National park was established they were deprived of fishing, discontinuing their traditional livelihood.

Contact: Ramesh Badal Secretary-DFA DFA

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Environment, Farm & Food

 

Moving Mountains (2006)

20 Apr

30m; U.S.

Director: Virginia Bendl Moore

Cast: Earl Ray Tomlin (Himself); Senator Jay Rockefeller (Himself); Gov. Manchin (Himself); Bill Raney (Himself- President of the WV Coal Association); Warren Hylton (Himself- President of Patents Coal); Larry Gibson (Himself); Ed Wiley (Himself); Maria Gunnoe (Himself); Lenny Kohn (Himself- reporter from Appalachian Voices); Sam Cook (Himself- Appalachian Studies Professor at Virginia Tech)

Synopsis: A student made documentary about the effects of mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia. West Virginia; Coal Mining; Mountaintop Removal Mining; Strip Mining

Contact: E-mail filmmaker at movingmountains@virginia.edu

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Environment, Working Class

 

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Porto Marghera-The Last Firebrands (2004)

20 Apr

52m; Italy

Director: Manuela Pellarin

Synopsis: A film about petrochemical workers who took matters into their own hands in the giant industrial zone engulfing Venice. Porto Marghera documents autonomous workers and their experiences from the point of view of the worker-activists themselves. “The mass refusal of literally toxic work forced hours on the job down at the same time as driving wages up. The labour hierarchy that sets white collar against blue, permanent against casual, was attacked by workers insisting on the maximum for everyone. The battle in the factory was linked to working-class life outside through direct appropriation of basic social needs.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Environment, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

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Libby, Montana (2004)

30 Mar

124 min

Directors: Doug Hawes-Davis, Drury Gunn Carr

Synopsis (PBS): Libby, Montana is first of all the story of an ideal American community in what early explorers called “the land of the shining mountains.” Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies along the crystal-clear Kootenai River, Libby is the archetypal backpacker’s, hunter’s and angler’s paradise, as well as a picture-perfect example of the American wilderness that environmentalists want to save. At the same time, the town’s remoteness and its logging and mining economy nurtured conservative, self-reliant family and community values.

But Libby, Montana is also the story of an ideal betrayed in a way that crosses political lines and raises alarming questions about the role of corporate power in American politics and the environmental pollution that extracts its highest costs from ordinary citizens. In Libby, 70 years of strip-mining an ore called “vermiculite” and marketed as the wonder material “Zonolite” exposed workers, their families and thousands of residents to a toxic form of asbestos, creating what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called the worst case of industrial poisoning of a whole community in American history.

http://www.pbs.org/pov/libbymontana/film_description.php

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Documentary, Environment, Safety & Health

 

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The Greening of Southie (2008)

01 Mar

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.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Construction Trades, Documentary, Environment, Working Class

 

Buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Product Certification (2006)

21 Feb

57m

Director: John de Graaf and Hana Jindrova

Synopsis (Bull Frog Films): Under the auspices of the WTO, globalization of world trade seems like a juggernaut that will not be stopped. But is there a way to make trade FAIR? How can retailers and consumers use their purchasing power and market choice to make the world better for people and the environment? What is the promise of product certification and labeling?

BUYER BE FAIR looks at two major trade goods — timber and coffee — to find out how certification works and whether it helps the world’s poor, and their lands. Can the lessons from certification of timber, by the Forest Stewardship Council, and coffee, by Fair Trade, be applied to other products?

Website: http://www.buyerbefair.org/

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Environment, Farm & Food, Global Economy

 
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