74m
Director: Cecilia Ho Wing Yin
Synopsis (CLiFF): A story of Indonesian female migrant workers who left their homes to work as domestic helpers in Macao, China, a community consisting mainly of Chinese as well as a city of casinos and entertainment parlours.
120m; U.S.
Director: David Moore Huntley
Cast: Billy Ray Cyrus
Synopsis: Generally, it brings America’s mythic and misunderstood southern mountain people to life and reveal their pivotal but unsung role in forming the nation and forging the American character. It discusses the largest civil insurrection since the Civil War — the Battle for Blair Mountain in the violent West Virginia coalfields in 1921, when a self-proclaimed Redneck Army of 10,000 coal miners fought for their right to organize.
Contact: The History Channel store. http://shop.history.com/detail.php?a=115530 http://www.moorehuntley.com/CONTACT.html
5m
Directors: Larilyn Sanchez, Riza Manalo
Synopsis (IFFR): A woman who works outside the Philippines to earn money for her family sees herself forced to send her mother back home alone. She can’t pay for her own journey, but as compensation she gives her mother gifts from the rich world.
19m; U.S.
Director: Diane Krauthamer
Synopsis: The Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH) invited an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) delegation to Haiti to learn about their fight against “le plan neoliberal” and recruit help in the form of material aid and solidarity. The delegation was in Haiti April 24 to May 5 2008, two weeks after the country erupted in mass protest at burgeoning food prices. This video shares the stories and experiences
113m; U.S.
Director: Gordon Parks, Sr.
Synopsis (WorldCat): Based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.
109m; U.S.
Director: King Vidor
Synopsis: Portrayal of rural black milieu. The film seems stereotypical now, but was originally banned in many areas for “frank” portrayal of black life.
54m; U.S.
Director: Vivian Price
Synopsis: Female construction workers.
Contact: www.hammeringitout.com; Vivian Price vprice@csudh.edu/blues3@verizon.net; Women Make Movies 212-925-0606 ADDRESS: C/O Susanne Davis 2225 East Ocean Blvd Long Beach CA 90803
Directr: Adrian Muys
Synopsis/Contact: This is Adrian Muys writing, the filmmaker you met at the AFI. Here is a short summary of Hands of Harvest and how the AFL-CIO would fit into it. Hands of Harvest chronicles the journey of a group of Mexican women who travel on work visas from the Hidalgo region to the Eastern Shore of Maryland to pick crabs in seafood plants. The film focuses on the H2-B visa program and how it has impacted the culture of both a small Maryland fishing village and a remote hamlet in Mexico. What I would like to interview someone at the AFL-CIO about it their stance on visa workers and how it has affected the American work force. Hands of Harvest is about workers, both American and Mexican, who will go to great lengths to support their families and uphold traditions and I have always taken an unbiased approach to the film in order to get as many opinions as possible about a subject that is very important at this moment in US labor history. I think having the opinion of the AFL-CIO would widen the scope of the film and bring another important point of view to the table. Please call me if you have any questions about the film: (917) 743-3714 Thanks Adrian Muys Chapel Cove Productions adrianmuys@yahoo.com
102m; China
Director: Yimou Zhang
Cast: Lifan Dong, Benshan Zhao and Jie Dong
Synopsis (IMDB): Zhao is an old laid-off worker who’s dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pair off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and another place to stay for her blind step-daughter. Pretending he’s the General Manager of a non-existent posh hotel “Happy Times”, Zhao had to find ways and means of keeping both mother and stepdaughter happy.
120m; Jamaica
Director: Perry Henzell
Cast: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley and Carl Bradshaw
Synopsis (IMDB): Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.
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