54m; France
Director: Marie France Collard
Synopsis: Effects of globalization on European and Asian women.
Category Archives: Global Economy
You, Me & The SPP (2009)
91m; Canada
Director: Paul Manly
Synopsis (IMDB): You, Me, and the S.P.P: Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule is a feature length documentary which exposes the corporatist agenda of the Security Prosperity Partnership, that is currently undermining the democratic authority of the citizens of North America
Even the Rain (También la Lluvia) [2010]
103m; Spain/Mexico/France
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar and Karra Elejalde
Synopsis: A Spanish film crew comes to Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1999 to make a film about Christopher Columbus. The intent is to do a revisionist account portraying Columbus not as a hero, but as a conqueror. The film crew is not well financed and looking to cut costs, which includes to indigenous Bolivians being hired to star in the movie. At the same time, a mounting wave of protests is occurring, with one of the film extras serving as a major leader, over the privatization of Cochabamba’s water supply. The film crew becomes entangled in the protests in an ever more complex and deep ways. A superb film about the intersections and limits of art and politics.
Zoned for Slavery: The Child Behind the Label (1995)
23m; U.S.
Director: National Labor Committee
Synopsis: Investigation of very young working women in the Free Trade Zone in Honduras and consequences on their lives due to exploitation (below subsistence wages, lack of access to education, health hazards, forced contraception, denied freedom, harassment, etc.). A National Labor Committee (NLC) representative speaks about workers’ actual wages, the cost of production (for ex., 12 cents for a 20$ Gap shirt), the US tax support for free trade zones, and the pressure on companies to produce in free trade zones and the effect on American workers. The NLC representative looks at the wider economic impact of paying low wages (trading with people earning wages below the subsistence level is impossible). Detailed interviews with workers. Heated discussion with management as the representative gets caught asking workers questions without management’s permission.
Contact: Available online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XtYhfcEZ9A
Scrappers (2010)
Set within Chicago’s labyrinth of alleyways, Scrappers is a cinema verite portrait of Otis and Oscar, two scrap metal scavengers searching for a living with brains, brawn and battered pickup trucks. The film shows how globalization, the 2008 financial crisis, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants and widespread scrap metal theft affect these men and their families. (Written by Ben Kolak on IMDB)
Silk and Iron (2002)
26m; Thailand
Director: Committee for Asian Women
Synopsis: Shows how the economic policies of the IMF and World Bank have made women pay a heavy price in their struggle to survive.
Contact: http://www.cawinfo.org
Solidarity Has No Borders – The Journey of the Neptune Jade (2005)
26m; U.S.
Director: Video Labor Project
Synopsis: In 1997, in support of striking Liverpool dock workers, San Francisco longshore workers refused to handle cargo in the Neptune Jade ship.
Contact: lvpsf@labornet.org
Something to Hide (1999)
Director: National Labor Committee
Synopsis: A delegation of U.S. students and workers with the National Labor Committee visit sweatshops in El Salvador.
Contact: See the film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3tT45Q6uKM
Stolen Childhoods (2005)
85m; Various
Director: Len Morris & Robin Romano
Cast: Meryl Streep (narrator)
Synopsis: Stolen Childhoods is a feature length documentary on global child labor.
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