32m; Iraq
Director: Osamu Kimura & Mabui Cine Coop
Synopsis: Iraqi working-class organizing and fight against occupation.
Contact: http://homepage2.nifty.com/cine-mabui/
Category Archives: Themes
Global Village or Global Pillage (2001)
USA; 27m
Director: Jeremy Brecher
Synopsis: A documentary that shows how ordinary people around the world are taking on the global economy.
Fun With Dick And Jane (2005)
90m; U.S.
Director: Dean Parisot
Cast: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni and Alec Baldwin
Synopsis: The day before Globodyne’s stock tanks, a la Enron, and its pension fund evaporates, the corporation’s CEO and CFO set up middle manager Dick Harper to be the public face of the disaster. Jobless, and with no savings, pension, or home equity, Dick and his wife Jane sink slowly into poverty. He looks for work (as do all former Globodyne executives); he even tries day labor with the relatives of their Mexican nanny. A foreclosure notice sends Dick and Jane over the edge into a life of blue-collar crime. Then, as things finally look up, the report of an looming indictment pushes Dick and Jane toward a denouement with the real criminals, the white-collar guys
Frozen River (2008)
97m; U.S.
Director: Courtney Hunt
Cast: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham and Charlie McDermott
Synopsis (IMDB): Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women – one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances – are drawn into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. Ray and Lila – and a New York State Trooper as opponent in an evolving cat-and-mouse game
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks (2006)
U.S.
Director: Haskell Wexler
Synopsis: A filmed version of a Ian Ruskin’s one man-play covering the life of International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union founder and labor radical Harry Bridges.
Contact: Ian Ruskin, theharrybridgesproject@comcast.net; http://www.theharrybridgesproject.org
From the Other Side (2002)
92m; U.S.
Director: Chantal Ackerman
Synopsis: Immigrant workers.
Contact: First Run Icarus Films. http://www.frif.com/new2002/other.html
From the Mountains to the Maquiladoras
Synopsis: Laid-off Tennessee factory workers visit Mexican communities where factories moved.
From the Bottom Up (1991)
65m; U.S.
Director: Sedgwick Productions
Synopsis: It’s a 65 minute documentary that features: 1. Community organizing: Gail Cincotta and NPA Two IAF groups in Texas: COPS and Valley Interfaith. 2. Community-based economic development Two groups in the South Bronx doing affordable housing including sweat equity – Banana Kelly, and the Mid-Bronx Development Corporation One group in Embarrass Minnesota (SISU) working on stabilizing a rural community through reviving Finnish heritage buildings, crafts, etc.
From Sunrise to Sunset (1984)
42m
Director: Robin King
Synopsis (WorldCat): “Reminiscences of John Handcox, 79 year old black poet, songwriter, and former member of the 1930’s Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Arkansas.”
The Great Bazaar (2005)
56m; Mozambique
Director: Licínio Azevedo
Cast: Edmundo Mondlane, Chano Orlando, Chico António, Paito Tcheco, Manuel Adamo
Synopsis: A 12-year-old vendor, robbed in an African suburb, pursues his young robbers into the city. He begins to live in a market square that at night becomes a dormitory for homeless vendors.
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