60m; U.S.
Director: Ernesto Livon-Grosman
Synopsis: Economic crises forces Argentinian middle class into ranks of the Buenos Aires trash pickers.
Contact: Brittany Gravely, brittany@der.org 800.569.6621 http://www.cartonerosdoc.com/Cartoneros.html
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Cash & Marry (2009)
76m
Director: Atanas Georgiev
Synopsis: Two young immigrants from the Balkan try to find a solution for their legal residence permit in Austria.
The Catered Affair (1956)
92m; U.S.
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine and Debbie Reynolds
Synopsis: At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph’s parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates. All of a sudden, it is a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of his money is going towards a wedding neither he, or Jane or Ralph really want.
Celebrate Moe!
13m; VHS; year unknown
Produced by SEIU
About Bread and Roses Cultural Project founder Moe Foner, who, years before he went to work for labor unions, had played saxophone in a swing band with his brothers. They did gigs at upstate Borscht Belt retreats and Manhattan hotels, and along the way came to know many other musicians, as well as actors and artists. The Brothers Foner were leftists with a vision; one went on to lead the furriers’ union, two others became renowned historians. Moe worked for several unions before landing at 1199 in 1952, back when it was a small union of pharmacy employees. Even then, he was looking for ways to integrate culture with his union work. He found a sympathetic ear in 1199’s founding president, Leon Davis, one that continues with current union head Dennis Rivera, who oversaw a vastly transformed organization, representing more than 200,000 workers.
The project took its name from the slogan advanced by striking workers in the bitter 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, “We Want Bread and Roses Too.”
Cellulose (Celuloza) [1954]
120m; Poland
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Synopsis: A peasant’s son in Poland becomes politically radicalized, after moving to the big city to work in a cellulose factory.
Central Bakery O, Dridi (2002)
33m; France
Director: Camy Julien
Synopsis: Profile of Algerian baker working in France.
The Children of Golzow (1961-2007)
2570m
Director: Winfried Junge
Synopsis (Filmmuseum Pottsdam): n 1961, Winfried Junge took up the idea and vision of documentary filmmaker Karl Gass to make a film about a school class and to accompany the children’s life with the camera. No one would have thought that the story of the children from a small village in the Oderbruch would, one day, become a work portraying GDR everyday life, the German reunification and the first steps into a new everyday life.
America Now: Children of the Harvest (2010)
60m
Broadcast Date: NBC, July 19, 2010
Producers: David Corvo, Nick Capote and Rayner Ramirez
Synopsis (Dateline NBC): For thousands of children in America, summer means hard labor in the hot sun. They’re migrant laborers working alongside their struggling parents on America’s farms. Dateline took its cameras and found a story of hardship, perserverence, and love.
Website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38312193/ns/dateline_nbc/t/america-now-children-harvest/
China Blue (2005)
86m; U.S.
Director: Micha X. Peled
Synopsis: Young Chinese garment workers: the human cost of cheap jeans.
Contact: micha1teddybearfilms@earthlink.net
Chocolate City (2007)
46m; U.S.
Director: Ellie Walton and Sam Wild
Synopsis: Closing of a DC housing project destroys low-income community; using art of organize.
Contact: Sam Wild sam.sky.wild@googlemail.com
http://samwild.wordpress.com
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