Directed By: Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel
Runtime: 1 hr 43 min
Stars: – – –
Synopsis: An indigenous environmental activist takes on the large businesses that are destroying the Amazon.
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When Two Worlds Collide (2016)
Union Maids (1976)
Directed By: Julia Reichert
Runtime: 50 min
Stars: Kate Hyndman, Stella Nowicki, Sylvia Woods
Synopsis: actions of the time and the current state of the labor movement. Accompanied by a lot of vintage folk music.
Last Reel (2015)
Directed by: Steven Bognar
Running Time: 8 min
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Website: N/a
Synopsis: Film projectionists at the Little Art Theatre in Ohio speak about the craft of 35mm projection and the heartache in transitioning to digital formats, feeling the loss of yet another handcrafted profession.
If You Could Walk In My Shoes (2015)
Directed by: Ricardo E. Causo
Running Time: 27 min
Starring:
Website: N/a
Synopsis: Roberto Marquez is an artisan from Ecuador, who immigrated to the United States over 14 years ago. He has been living and working in New York City as a shoe cobbler, and is an undocumented immigrant. In 2013, Roberto, and his wife Maria, welcomed a baby girl into their family. A first-generation American Citizen. Roberto struggles to support his family, here and abroad. In spite of the odds they are up against, he reflects on his own life, and the future he wants for his family
Hazelnuts and Child Labor (2015)
Directed by: Mehmet Ülger
Running Time: 52 min
Starring:
Website: N/a
Synopsis: In 2010 Zara, a nine year old, picks hazelnuts with her family in the Turkish Black Sea region. Working 11 hours per day during the harvest in August, often seven days a week, in the evening, they return to a tent camp where no facilities are available. Making this journey every year, Zara and her friends routinely return to school late. Five years later has anything changed? Has child labor been reduced? Have the facilities for seasonal workers been improved? And how fare the children who are doing the hard labor?
Harlan County USA (1976)
Directed by: Barbara Kopple
Running Time: 103 min
Starring: Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks
Website: N/a
Synopsis: A filmed account of a bitterly violent miner strike.
Great Unsung Women of Computing: The Computers, The Coders and The Future Makers (2016)
Directed by: Kathy Kleiman, Jon Palfreman and Kate McMahon
Running Time: 48 min
Starring: N/a
Website: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c188.shtml
Synopsis: In the United States, women are vastly underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) fields, holding under 25% of STEM jobs and a disproportionately low share of STEM undergraduate degrees. Great Unsung Women of Computing is a series of three remarkable documentary films that show how women revolutionized the computing and Internet technology we use today, inspiring female students to believe that programming careers lie within their grasp.
Bringing It All Back Home
Directed by: Chrissie Stansfield
Running Time: 48 min
Starring: N/a
Website: N/a
Synopsis: This fascinating documentary analyzes how the patterns of international capital investment and the exploitation of Third World women workers in free trade zones are being brought home to the First World. Issues discussed include: the internationalization of local economies, the growing schism between the rich and poor and the changing nature of women’s work.
Boom, Bust, Boom (2016)
Directed by: Bill Jones & Terry Jones & Ben Timlett
Running Time: 75 min
Starring: N/a
Website: N/a
Synopsis: The result of a meeting between writer, director, historian and Python Terry Jones and economics professor and entrepreneur Theo Kocken. Co-written by Jones and Kocken and featuring John Cusack, Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman, Robert J. Shiller and Paul Krugman, the film is part of a global movement to change the economic system through education to protect the world from boom and bust. A unique look at why economic crashes happen, Boom Bust Boom is a multimedia documentary combining live action with animation and puppetry to explain economics to everyone.
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