13m; U.S.
Synopsis: Effect of black lung disease on coal miners
Contact: Steve Fesenmaier: fesenms@wvlc.lib.wv.us Anita L. Wolfe, (304) 285-6263, awolfe@cdc.gov
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Facing the Music
Australia
Synopsis: Strike against budget cuts at Australian university music department
Fair Game (2010)
108m; U.S.
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Sonya Davison
Synopsis: Based on story of Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame, the married couple who were at the centerstorm of a Washington, D.C. scandal over Plame’s outing as an undercover CIA operative by Washington Post journalist Robert Novak. The scandal, known in the press as “Plamegate”, destroyed her career and rocked the White House as accusations were leveled against the Bush administration and its allies. Ambassador Wilson made the charge that the Bush administration had knowingly leaked his wife’s covert status as a direct response for his public statements that the administration played up or outright lied that Iraq had uranium in its possession to make nuclear bombs.
Falling Down
113m; U.S.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall and Barbara Hershey
Synopsis: An unemployed defense worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
Farmingville (2004)
79m; U.S.
Director: Carlos Sandoval
Synopsis: Mexican migrant workers in Long Island face discrimination as neighbors both attack and defend them. Very timely for 2006.
Contact: Carlos Sandoval Camino Bluff Productions PO Box 1908 Amagansett, NY 11930 631-267-6565 ( Work ) 212-864-4313 ( Fax ) mail@caminobluff.com
Fast Food Nation (2006)
116m; U.S.
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis and Catalina Sandino Moreno
Synopsis: Fiction-film adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s bestselling book on the food system in the U.S. Health & safety risks involved in the fast food industry and its environmental and social consequences as well.
Contact: Linklater’s production company: Detour Filmproduction Phone: 512-322-0031 Linklater’s assistant: Sara Greene sara@detourfilm.com Eric Schlosser (author) c/o Houghton Mifflin Company Trade Division Adult Editorial, 8th Floor 222 Berkeley St Boston, MA 02116-3764 USA
Fast Food Women (1992)
28m; U.S.
Director: Anne Lewis Johnson
Synopsis: Close-up look at working conditions of fast-food service workers in eastern Kentucky. Affecting portraits but somewhat dated (though the issue is still current).
Contact: Anne Lewis 512-656-0507 (cell) http://www.annelewis.org
Fear and Trembling (2003)
107m; France
Director: Alain Corneau
Cast: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji and Tarô Suwa
Synopsis: A Belgian woman looks back on her year at a Japanese corporation in Tokyo in 1990. She is Amélie, born in Japan, living there until age 5. After college graduation, she returns with a one-year contract as an interpreter. The vice president and section leader, both men, are boors, but her immediate supervisor, Ms. Mori, is beautiful and trustworthy. Amélie’s downfall begins when she speaks perfect Japanese to clients. She compounds her failure by writing an excellent report for an enterprising colleague. The person she least expects to stab her in the back exposes her work. Thus begins her humiliations. What can become of her and of her relationship with Ms. Mori and with Japan?
Fame is the Spur (1947)
A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.
Hamer Radshaw rises from a Manchester slum to an important post in the British Cabinet but, along the way, his strong socialist beliefs undergo modifications to the extent that, while maintaining them in principle, he diametrically opposes them in practice. His ‘spur’ for prosperity and social status causes him to sacrifice his ideals and friends, including allowing his wife, a fighter for women’s rights, to be jailed.Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> on IMDB
FDA: A History (2008)
82m; U.S.
Synopsis: History of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Contact: Compliance Media; http://www.fdahistory.com
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