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If You Could Walk In My Shoes (2015)

24 Feb

https://vimeo.com/179697792

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

 
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Posted by on February 24, 2017 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

Hazelnuts and Child Labor (2015)

24 Feb

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?

 
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Posted by on February 24, 2017 in Children, Farm & Food

 

Harlan County USA (1976)

24 Feb

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.

 
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Posted by on February 24, 2017 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Great Unsung Women of Computing: The Computers, The Coders and The Future Makers (2016)

22 Feb

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.

 
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Posted by on February 22, 2017 in Documentary, Women

 

Bringing It All Back Home

22 Feb

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.

 
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Posted by on February 22, 2017 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Women

 

Boom, Bust, Boom (2016)

22 Feb

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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Posted by on February 22, 2017 in Documentary, Finance, Global Economy

 

American Reds (2016)

22 Feb

https://vimeo.com/182210949

Directed by:  Richard Wormser
Running Time: 85 min
Starring: N/A

Website: N/a

Synopsis: This lively documentary tells the story of the emergence of the Communist Party USA between 1930-1945 as the foremost radical political group in America, and the Party’s subsequent collapse between 1946 and 1960 as a result of the Cold War and the revelation of Stalin’s crimes. Followed by a Q&A with Producer Bill Jersey and Producer/Director Richard Wormser, plus special guests.

 
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Posted by on February 22, 2017 in Communism/Socialism, Documentary

 

Who is Dayani Cristal (2013)

22 Feb

Directed by:  Marc Silver
Running Time: 1hr 25 min
Starring: N/A

Website: http://whoisdayanicristal.com/

Synopsis: An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo.

 
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Posted by on February 22, 2017 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

The Measure of a Man (2015)

22 Feb

Directed by: Stéphane Brizé
Running Time: 93 min
Starring: N/A

Synopsis:  An unemployed factory worker is trying to make ends meet in working-class France.

Is there a word for that slow exhale — a kind of sad groan — you release when witnessing an emotionally excruciating moment? Whatever that sound is called, you’ll make it often during “The Measure of a Man,” a devastating look at a middle-age worker who, after losing his job, struggles to retain his dignity. Vincent Lindon, in a performance that won him the best actor award at Cannes in 2015, is heartbreaking as he interviews for positions, attends retraining sessions and eventually finds work. Yet his new job soon puts him under a quiet, brutal pressure. The most agonizing scenes in the film (directed by Stéphane Brizé; its original title, in French, is “La Loi du Marché,” or “Market Law”) don’t feature bombastic speeches or didactic critiques of capitalism. Instead, we watch small disappointments bruise a good man’s soul. KEN JAWOROWSKI (NYT)

 
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Posted by on February 22, 2017 in Working Class

 

Sacco and Vanzetti (2007)

22 Feb

Directed by: Peter Miller
Running Time: 1 hr 34 min
Starring: N/A

Website: http://www.montereymedia.com/nogodnomaster/

Synopsis: The story of two Italian immigrant radicals who were executed in 1927 offers insights into present-day issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.

 
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Posted by on February 22, 2017 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Labor History, Migrant workers

 
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