RSS

Category Archives: Global Economy

Boom, Bust, Boom (2016)

22 Feb

Directed by: Bill Jones & Terry Jones & Ben Timlett
Running Time: 75 min
Starring: N/a

Website: N/a

Synopsis: The result of a meeting between writer, director, historian and Python Terry Jones and economics professor and entrepreneur Theo Kocken. Co-written by Jones and Kocken and featuring John Cusack, Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman, Robert J. Shiller and Paul Krugman, the film is part of a global movement to change the economic system through education to protect the world from boom and bust. A unique look at why economic crashes happen, Boom Bust Boom is a multimedia documentary combining live action with animation and puppetry to explain economics to everyone.

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on February 22, 2017 in Documentary, Finance, Global Economy

 

Robot Somnambulism (2016)

18 Dec

Richard HSIAO
2016 / Taiwan / Documentary / 90min /
Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics OEM factory, manufactured and assembled more than 50% iPhone of the world. In 2010, the serial jumping of Foxconn workers caught attention. People holding iPhone suddenly noticed that it’s producer were working like a robot, acting every 7 seconds, 12 hour a day. They felt a bit uneasy, but cannot loosen their hand. Smartphone has changed human life completely. On the other side, the company supplying touch panels to HTC were suppressing worker union. Union and supporting students choose HTC to protest, making its managers feel embarrassed and aggrieved. Meanwhile, one of HTC engineer died possibly because of overworking. His last message on Facebook was “off work, issue still not resolved”, AM 3 o’clock, Sunday. In this era, robotic people making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on December 18, 2016 in Automation, Consumerism, Documentary, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Safety & Health, Technology

 

When Two Worlds Collide

18 Dec
An indigenous environmental activist takes on the large businesses that are destroying the Amazon.
Initial release: January 22, 2016
Directors: Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel
Producer: Taira Akbar
Website

Backed by a “free trade” agreement with the U.S., the president of Peru launched a plan to turn over indigenous Amazonian land to big corporations for mining and oil and gas extraction. Indigenous communities fought back. The filmmakers immersed themselves in this drama and produced incredible footage showing the courage and sacrifice of the native people, juxtaposed with the familiar invoking of “progress” and “the rule of the law” by the corporations’ allies in government.

 

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on December 18, 2016 in Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Environment, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing

 

The Workers Cup (2016)

18 Dec

United Kingdom (Director: Adam Sobel) — Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own. World Premiere. DAY ONE

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on December 18, 2016 in Blacks, Class, Documentary, Global Economy, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

Plastic China (2016)

18 Dec

China (Director: Jiu-liang Wang) — Yi-Jie, an 11-year-old girl, works alongside her parents in a recycling facility while dreaming of attending school. Kun, the facility’s ambitious foreman, dreams of a better life. Through the eyes and hands of those who handle its refuse, comes an examination of global consumption and culture. International Premiere. THE NEW CLIMATE

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on December 18, 2016 in Consumerism, Documentary, Environment, Global Economy, Immigrants/Immigration, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Migrant workers

 

WHERE TO INVADE NEXT (2015)

11 Oct

Dir. Michael Moore/USA/2015/120 mins

Having spent 25 years making films defending ordinary people, Moore is now one of the 100 most influential people alive according to Time Magazine. Moore now follows up Capitalism: A Love Story with Where to Invade Next, in which the formidable filmmaker tours the world to investigate what the USA could learn from other countries. Discovering that Italian workers get paid holidays and parental leave; Finland’s students have no homework; Slovenians don’t pay for university; and that Tunisian women have access to abortion, he also goes to Iceland, where women hold top governmental positions whilst (mostly male) bankers are prosecuted, in a brilliant film about people before profit.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/1KeAZho8TKo

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on October 11, 2016 in Comedy, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Global Economy

 

Joy of Man’s Desiring (Que ta joie demeure) (2014)

10 Oct

1h 10min | Documentary, News | 16 January 2015 (USA)

Director: Denis Côté
Writer: Denis Côté
Stars: Olivier Aubin, Ted Pluviose, Hamidou Savadogo |

An open-ended exploration of the energies and rituals of various workplaces. From one worker to another and one machine to the next; hands, faces, breaks, toil: what kind of absurdist, abstract dialogue can be started between human beings and their need to work? What is the value of the time we spend multiplying and repeating the same motions that ultimately lead to a rest – a state of repose whose quality defies definition.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/jIaWeSRqNAg

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on October 10, 2016 in Automation, Documentary, Global Economy, Manufacturing, Philosophy

 

Living Wage Now

10 Oct

32.51 minutes

People in the West hear of the conditions endured by garment workers making clothes in Asian factories, but they rarely see them. A short documentary by the Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA), a group of trade unions and labor rights activists, offers a glimpse of people at work in India, Cambodia, and Indonesia. It includes footage from factories, which aren’t necessarily tiny, claustrophobic rooms with decrepit walls and little light. The most startling conditions are where the workers live. Some live in homes that are little more than a single, bare room with no toilet or running water.
Read more

See the whole film here: https://youtu.be/PxFwA-jw3X4

Trailer: https://youtu.be/zsR87lFmE6Y

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on October 10, 2016 in Documentary, Global Economy, Textile Industry, Working Class

 

Pyme (2004) (SMB)

03 Feb

Directed by: Alejandro MalowikiPYME
Running Time: 96 minutes.
Starring: Gabriel Molinelli, Duilio Orso, Bernardo Forteza.

www.pymelapelicula.com.ar 

SMB (Pyme) is a fiction full length film that tells the slings and arrows of life within a plastic industry factory when its owner takes the dramatic and imminent decision to declare bankruptcy, thus leading to the factory’s closure, or calling a meeting of creditors as a last hope. A hope that, at the end of the film, will be crystallized as a cooperative. Pablo, in charge of the factory founded by his father, tries to face the conflicts that have disturbed all members of his SMB in Argentina, in the ’90s. Hounded by debts, they end up bearing an economic crisis that gives place to an undesired and unexpected war of everyone against everyone. They are under siege by a brutal and unfair neoliberal model. Gustavo, Pablo’s son, may become the only one who will dare go through the door that keeps opening and closing, preventing them from seeing the outside light.

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on February 3, 2016 in Big Business/Corporations, Communism/Socialism, Drama, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Manufacturing

 

Gold Fever (2013)

06 Dec

J.T. Haines, Tommy Haines & Andrew Sherburne, co-directors
84 min | Documentary, Drama | 13 April 2013 (USA)
http://www.goldfevermovie.com/
productions@northlandfilms.com

Gold, an obsession of men and nations; a symbol of wealth and power. But for Diodora, Gregoria, Crisanta and the people living near the Marlin Mine in Guatemala’s highlands, gold represents oppression, intimidation, pollution and even murder. With the rising price of gold, the mine’s owner, Goldcorp, posts record profits, while these courageous women live in resistance to the mine’s unstoppable hunger.

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on December 6, 2015 in Documentary, Environment, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Safety & Health

 
← Older posts
Newer posts →