58m; U.S.
Director: Sylvia Morales
Chronicles the achievements of five Latina/Chicana activisits, including the labor organizer/farm worker Dolores Huerta
Contact: Sylvia Morales smorales@lmu.edu
Category Archives: Immigrants/Immigration
A Time To Rise (1982)
39m; Canada
Director: Anand Patwardhan, Jim Monro
Synopsis: On April 6, 1980, the Canadian Farmworkers Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among Chinese and East Indian immigrant workers in British Columbia that provoked the formation of the union, and the response of growers and labor contractors to the threat of unionization. Made over a period of two years, the film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the workers’ movement from the first stirrings of militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members.
Contact: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=13589
Adhen (2008)
93m; France
Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche
Synopsis: An industrial pallet-repair operation on the outskirts of Paris becomes a microcosm of Muslim immigrant hopes and tensions.
Alambrista or “The Illegal” (1976)
110m; U.S.
Director: Robert Young
Synopsis: A dramatic feature tells the story of a young Mexican farmworker who crosses the border into the US illegally.
Alamo Bay (1985)
98m; U.S.
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen
Synopsis (IMDB): A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.
And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (1995)
U.S.
Director: Severo Pérez
Synopsis (IMDB): Marcos is a lad in Texas, the second son of a migrant farmworker family, his brother is missing in the Korean war. We travel with the family into Minnesota, following the crops. The housing is awful, sometimes the boss furnishes no water as the hands labor, and TB goes untreated. In good times the pay is $15 a day for adults, half that for children. For a few sordid weeks, his parents leave him in the care of a corrupt couple, he’s expelled from school for hitting back, and he finds solace in a graveyard. As his parents long for their missing son, as folks gather around a local troubadour for songs of romance, comedy, and heartbreak, Marcos observes and remembers.
Andalucia (2007)
94m; France
Director: Alain Gomis
Cast: Samir Guesmi, Delphine Zingg, Djolof Mbengue, Bass Dhem, Axel Bogousslavsky, Marc Martínez
Synopsis: Algerian man moves to Paris and deals with issues of class, employment, immigration, and poverty.
Contact: 1001 Productions: 44, boulevard Magenta 75010 Paris, Téléphone : (33) 1 47 70 44 70, Fax : (33) 1 40 18 42 49; Email : milleetune@free.fr claude nouchi: claude.colifilms@club-internet.fr 1001 Productions http://www.1001productions.
Angel City (1980)
Director: Philip Leacock
Cast: Ralph Waite, Paul Winfield, Jennifer Warren, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Ralph Waite stars as the head of a rural mountain family that journeys to south Florida as migrant workers only to find themselves trapped in a squalid labor camp controlled by money-hungry Mitchell Ryan and his two henchmen.
Asturian-US (2007)
52m;
Director: Luis Argeo; Chip Hitchcock
Synopsis: The town of Arnao (Asturias province, northern Spain) grew under the wing of the Royal Mining Company. After the closure of its mine and the limitations of its factory at the beginning of the 20th century, many of its employees immigrated to similar factories located far from the sea, at the foot of the mountains of West Virginia. Several new towns were created: Spelter and Anmoore. 90% of their population was Asturians. Luis Argeo traveled from Spain in spring 2006 to document the community with the assistance of Chip Hitchcock of WBPBS.
Contact: Luis Argeo” argeol@hotmail.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Luis+Argeo&search=Search
At Home in Utopia (2008)
133m; U.S.
Director: Michal Goldman
Synopsis (IMDB): During the economic boom of the 1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish factory workers managed to build the house of their dreams, a cooperative apartment complex at the edge of Bronx Park. Then they were hit by the Great Depression. At Home in Utopia bears witness to an epic social experiment across two generations in the Coops – a place known as “little Moscow” – where people tried to change the American dream into one that included racial justice and workers’ rights.
Contact: Michal Goldman Michalman@aol.com Filmmakers Collaborative 397 Moody Street Waltham MA 02453 T 781 647-1102 F 781 647-1140
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