103m; U.S.
Director: John Carlos Frey
Cast: John Carlos Frey, Michelle Agnew and Anne Betancourt
Synopsis (IMDB): Adam Fields is a rage-filled U.S. Border Patrol Agent who often crosses the line in his job. A member of a vigilante group, Fields decides to go undercover with a hidden camera and cross with a group of undocumented immigrants. His plan goes awry, however, when the group is forced to work for a drug ring. Suddenly, Fields realizes that he has more in common with the migrants and their search for home, family and freedom than he thought.
84m; U.S.
Director: Hal Hartley
Cast: Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd and Tatiana Abracos
Synopsis (IMDB): In the not-distant-future, the market has taken over everything, thanks to the marketers. The consumer is king, and those who see value outside of the marketplace are “enemies of the consumer”, terrorists, and “partisan” enemies that the state must dispose of. Protagonist Jack seems to be at one with the media corporations (after all, his marketing ideas led to the institutionalization of the exchange of sex for enhanced buying power), but is he somehow involved with the feeble and pathetic resistance movement? Does he love Cecile, his colleague, or is she a pawn in his game? And what of the mysterious girl from Monday? Are immigrants from the star system “Monday” really assisting the partisans?
54m; U.S., 2010
Director: Gilbert Gonzalez/Vivian Price
http://harvestofloneliness.com/
Synopsis: History of bracero program and its value of totally controlled workers to Big Agriculture
Contact: Vivian Price: 562-438-9493 vprice@csudh.edu
99m
Director: Juan Manuel Sepúlveda
Synopsis: Immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua look upon Mexico as a hostile environment they must brave before facing the ultimate challenge: the U.S. border.
Contact: http://www.imcine.gob.mx/
87m; Greece
Director: Maria Ilou
Synopsis: “A meticulously researched story of how the 400,000 Greek immigrants who flooded through Ellis Island from the 1890s to the 1920s played a key role in making America great without losing sight of who they were and from whence they came.”
Contact: Proteus T: 30 693 240 0632 proteusnonprofit@earthlink.net http://www.thejourneygreekamericandream.org
3m; U.S.
Director: Jonathan Browning
Synopsis: Winning more than 30 awards at film festivals around the world, Browning’s short is a biting satire on US immigration policy and the global economic crisis.
Contact: http://www.thejobtheshort.com/
81m; Spain
Director: Jawad Rhalib
Synopsis: Where do the perfect fruits and vegetables of Europe come from? This film shows the deplorable conditions of the more than 80,000 Moroccan immigrants living and literally slaving under the plastic sheet that protect the crops, and above all, the laws of profit in southern Spain.
Contact: Clap d’Ort Films Sprl + 32 485 709 737 mo@clapdortfilms.be / http://elejidothelawofprofit.blogspot.com jrhalib@latchodrom.be
27m; U.S.
Director: Margot Smith
Synopsis: Bernard Zakheim (1896 – 1985) was born in Poland and came to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1918. He was well known for his many murals and frescos financed in part by the Works Progress Administration under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1930s New Deal. Nathan and Masha Zakheim, Bernard’s son and daughter, tell of their father’s work in Poland, the story of the Coit Tower murals, of his Holocaust paintings and his later work celebrating life. Murals shown here include The Library at Coit Tower, The Jewish Wedding at the San Francisco Community Center, and The History of Medicine in California at Toland Hall, University of California, San Francisco.
Contact: offcentervideo@aol.com http://www.offcentervideo.com
26m; U.S.
Director: Alex Rivera
Synopsis: The Sixth Section opens a surprising window on immigration in the 21st century. Following a group of Mexican immigrants from the tiny desert town of Boqueron who now work in upstate New York, the film documents their struggle to support themselves — and their hometown 3,000 miles to the south. To do this, the men form a ‘union’ that raises money in the form of weekly donations of $10 or $20 from each of its members in New York. In the past few years the group has brought electricity, an ambulance, and, most dramatically, a 2,000-seat baseball stadium to Boqueron. The Sixth Section is an intimate portrait of how the ‘American Dream’ is being redefined by today’s immigrants.
Contact: http://www.pbs.org/pov/thesixthsection/
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