52m
Director: Renzo Martins
Synopsis: An investigation of the emotional and economic value of Africa’s most lucrative export: filmed poverty. Deep in the interiors of the Congo, Dutch artist Renzo Martens single-handedly undertakes an epic journey and launches an emancipatory program that helps the poor become aware of what is their primary capital resource: Poverty
11m; Burma
Director:Christine Umali
Synopsis: Forced labor in Burma.
Contact: christine@witness.org 718 783 2000 x.342 (Work)
91m; Switzerland
Director: Nino Jacusso
Synopsis: Turkish emigres in Switzerland.
Contact: Distributor: Insert Film Untere Steingrubenstrasse 19 Postfach 106 Solothum/Schweiz, CH-4504 Switzerland Phone: 41-32-625-700 http://www.insertfilm.ch
Australia
Director: Fabio Cavadini & Mandy King
Synopsis: globalization; villagers battle for self-determination against copper company & government
113m; U.S.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall and Barbara Hershey
Synopsis: An unemployed defense worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
116m; U.S.
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis and Catalina Sandino Moreno
Synopsis: Fiction-film adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s bestselling book on the food system in the U.S. Health & safety risks involved in the fast food industry and its environmental and social consequences as well.
Contact: Linklater’s production company: Detour Filmproduction Phone: 512-322-0031 Linklater’s assistant: Sara Greene sara@detourfilm.com Eric Schlosser (author) c/o Houghton Mifflin Company Trade Division Adult Editorial, 8th Floor 222 Berkeley St Boston, MA 02116-3764 USA
81m; Venezuela
Director: Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler
Synopsis: Venezuelan workers worker democracy/takeover of factories.
Director: Shabnam Hameed
Synopsis: We are the 99% is about (extra)ordinary working people who struggle to change the system in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Nurses, Jill and Maria set up a medical tent disobeying council ordinances to provide care for people who could not afford treatment.
Workers Peter and Julian fight for basic working conditions.
Sparrow faces the dilemma of how to sustain a democracy when racial tensions explode.
Over the course of 2 months, in the microcosm of Zuccotti Park they endeavour to create a good society and ultimately are brutally evicted igniting a world wide movement.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un3v6qbZw9o
Shabnam Hameed
+61 (0) 415 817 931 (Australia)
SKYPE: shabnamhameed
shabnam.hameed@gmail.com
112m; U.S.
Director: Gregory Nava
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Maya Zapata, Martin Sheen
Synopsis: A journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso.
123m; U.S.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Synopsis: This film is based on the life story of Brazilian rubber tapper, environmentalist, and union leader Chico Mendes who led a movement of indigenous rubber tappers in the Brazilian Amazon in struggle against powerful Brazilian rancher interests and multinational corporations and institutions.
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