80m; U.S.
Director: Brent Renaud, Craig Renaud
Synopsis (IMDB): Members of an Arkansas National Guard unit are transformed from weekend warriors to full-fledged soldiers for the war in Iraq.
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Office Suite (2007)
16m; U.S.
Director: Robert Todd
Synopsis: Trilogy filmed on beautiful 16mm in and around Todd’s office, portraying the rhythm of the (working) day.
Contact: Director Robert Todd, Robert_Todd@emerson.edu (http://www.roberttoddfilms.com/office.htm)
Office Tigers (2006)
90m; U.K.-Denmark
Director: Liz Mermin
Synopsis: Indian workers, part of the generation whose lives are being transformed by the global marketplace; a glorious meritocracy or the de-humanizing march of capitalism?
Contact: liz@merminfilm.com
Oliver Twist (2005)
130m; U.S.
Director: Roman Polanski
Contact: Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley and Jeremy Swift
Synopsis (IMDB): An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
On a Clear Day (2005)
98m; U.K.
Director: Gaby Dellal
Cast: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn and Billy Boyd
Synopsis (IMDB): After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For the first time in his life, he is without a job or a sense of direction, and he’s too proud to ask for guidance. His best mates – rascally Danny, timid Norman and cynical Eddie – are there for him, but Frank still feels desperately alone. An offhand remark from Danny inspires Frank to challenge himself. Already contemplating the state of his relationships with loving wife Joan and all-but-estranged son Rob, Frank is determined to shore up his own self-confidence. He will attempt the near impossible – swimming the English Channel. As Frank plunges headlong into his new daily life, his astonished friends are swept along with him. Prodded by stalwart fish-and-chips shop owner Chan, the men support Frank, train him – and keep their goal secret from his wife and son.
On the Side of “Angels” (2007)
52m
Director: Mathieu Verboud
Synopsis (Icarus Films): Tells the stories of several prominent “whistleblowers” around the world, including Sherron Watkins, a Vice President of Corporate Development who helped uncover the accounting fraud at Enron; Glenn Walp, former Security Officer at Los Alamos National Laboratory who exposed corruption and theft at the national security facility; Joseph Mangan, an American aviation engineer who informed European authorities of safety violations in the manufacture of the new Airbus A380 airliner; Jean-Luc Touly, an employee of Véolia Water, who exposed financial fraud in the French national firm; and Adamo Bove, Head of Security at Telecom Italia, who uncovered a secret bugging system installed in cell phones worldwide.
Contact: http://icarusfilms.com/new2008/side.html lori@icarusfilms.com Sending screener
On Strike: The Winnipeg General Strike, 1919 [1991]
19m; Canada
Director: Joe Macdonald and Clair Johnstone Gilsig
Synopsis: This film provides the background about why the workers in Winnipeg were forced out and strike and the individuals on both sides of the struggle. The attack on the strikers on June 21, 1919 led to death and the defeat of the workers despite their bravery and just cause.
On the Right Track (1981)
97m; U.S.
Director: Lee Philips
Cast: Gary Coleman, Maureen Stapleton and Norman Fell
Synopsis (IMDB): Lester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He’s got this funny knack for picking the winning horses’ names out of the paper while shining shoes. When word gets around, though, everyone wants a piece of the action.
On the Waterfront (1954)
108m; U.S.
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Synopsis (IMDB): Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny’s thugs, and later meets the dead man’s sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.
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