65m; Mexico
Director: Emilio Gómez Muriel
Cast: Silvio Hernández, David Valle González and Rafael Hinojosa
Synopsis (Wikipedia): Redes was made with a mainly non-professional cast and has been seen as anticipating Italian neorealism. It concerns the struggle of poor fishermen to overcome exploitation.
75m; U.S.
Director: B. J. Gudmundsson
Synopsis: Mountain Keepers who have been fighting a 20 year battle to save their land and homes from the destructive practices of coal mining and especially mountaintop removal mining.
Contact: Patchwork Films Email: bj@patchworkfilms.com Patchwork Films mailing address 106 Lamplighter Drive Lewisburg, West Virginia 24901 Phone B. J. Gudmundsson 304-645-4998 Email Doug Chadwick 304-653-4916 Email Joan C. Browning 304-645-6799 Email
38m; U.S.
Synopsis: Effects of the Luxury Tax on yacht workers and the fight to kill the tax.
Contact: slu@sluproductions.com 973-228-4195 (Day)
97m; U.S.
Director: Julie Dash
Cast: Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James and Tonea Stewart
Synopsis: Film biography of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks.
58m; U.S.
Director: Tony Buba, Raymond Henderson
Cast: Raymond Henderson, Dennis C. Dickerson and Katrina Heiss
Synopsis (IMDB): This documentary tells the forgotten story of the African-American struggle for equality in the U.S. steel industry (based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). In a series of interviews intermixed with archival footage and stills, we learn how these workers faced and overcame discrimination that came from white workers, the big steel companies, and even from their own unions.
28m; Mexico
Director: Tami Gold
What began as a teacher’s strike in May of 2006 against privatization and for better wages and more resources for students, erupted into a massive movement for profound social change in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Government repression brought even greater popular resistance, which ultimately brought the state government to a standstill.
30m; Turkey
Director: Güliz Sağlam, Feryal Saygılıgil
Synopsis: Documentary about the resistance of Emine Arslan, fired from the Desa Sefaköy factory in Istanbul, and the female workers who were fired from the Düzce factory. All the women who were fired are union members. The film reveals the working conditions of women, the experience they gain while organizing, the advantages of resistance, their relationship with the union, their hopes and expectations and the Istanbul Women’s Platform, which is in solidarity with them throughout the strike.
Contact: Güliz Saglam Documentary maker tel:0090 532 583 74 55 gulizsaglam@hotmail.com
Director: Harold Mayer
Synopsis: Strike and development of Drug and Hospital Workers Union in New York City.
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