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Asturian-US (2007)

24 Jan

52m; 

Director: Luis Argeo; Chip Hitchcock

Synopsis: The town of Arnao (Asturias province, northern Spain) grew under the wing of the Royal Mining Company. After the closure of its mine and the limitations of its factory at the beginning of the 20th century, many of its employees immigrated to similar factories located far from the sea, at the foot of the mountains of West Virginia. Several new towns were created: Spelter and Anmoore. 90% of their population was Asturians. Luis Argeo traveled from Spain in spring 2006 to document the community with the assistance of Chip Hitchcock of WBPBS.

Contact: Luis Argeo” argeol@hotmail.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Luis+Argeo&search=Search

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration

 

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At Home in Utopia (2008)

24 Jan

133m; U.S.

Director: Michal Goldman

Synopsis (IMDB): During the economic boom of the 1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish factory workers managed to build the house of their dreams, a cooperative apartment complex at the edge of Bronx Park. Then they were hit by the Great Depression. At Home in Utopia bears witness to an epic social experiment across two generations in the Coops – a place known as “little Moscow” – where people tried to change the American dream into one that included racial justice and workers’ rights.

Contact: Michal Goldman Michalman@aol.com Filmmakers Collaborative 397 Moody Street Waltham MA 02453 T 781 647-1102 F 781 647-1140

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Organizing, Women, Working Class

 

See It Now: Automation (June 9, 1957)

24 Jan

82m

Broadcast Date:  June 9, 1957

Network: CBS

Synopsis (WorldCat): Filmed exploration of how automation was changing the way America worked and how computers and automatic machines were revolutionizing industry, including the replacement of workers by machines. Includes interviews with Walter Reuther, then president of the UAW and vice-president of the AFL-CIO, Thomas J. Watson Jr., then head of IBM, and others. An in-depth exploration of the beginning of the age beyond the Industrical Revolution. [With Edward Murrow]

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Automation, Documentary, Manufacturing

 

The Awful Truth (1999-2000)

24 Jan

24 episodes; U.S.

Director: Michael Moore

Synopsis: Activist film director Micheal Moore hosts a show where he continues his crusade to expose wrongdoing by the high and mighty.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Comedy, Documentary, Whistleblowers, Working Class

 

Bloody Mondays and Strawberry Pies (2008)

24 Jan

87m

Director: Coco Schrijber

Synopsis (Boston Globe): The Dutch filmmaker Coco Schrijber has handcrafted a rapturous, often profound visual essay about the metaphysics of time – about how we spend our lives fleeing from the silence of existence by filling our days with busy-ness. It’s a film to come back and touch in your thoughts for quite a while.

Using fluid pacing and some lovely visual rhyme schemes, Schrijber circles around a handful of subjects. A young German woman named Lena works at a baked-goods factory, glazing strawberry tarts and pensively wondering if this is where she’ll spend the next 30 years. There are interviews with 101-year-old Wall Street legend Irving Kahn and Nancy Wake, a dashing WWII British spy who is now an infirm 96. They have lived great lives that each acknowledges is turning to dust in the end.

With patience and surprisingly few pretensions, in fact, “Bloody Mondays’’ builds a case for boredom as a necessary antechamber to spiritual grace. It is the place where we can, if we’re willing, begin to contemplate everything we devote entire lives working to avoid: our coming deaths, our present purposes, and so on and so on, into the painter’s tireless blue infinite.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Arts/Culture, Documentary, Philosophy

 

Backyard / El traspatio (2009)

24 Jan

122m; Mexico

Director: Carlos Carrera

Synopsis: The true story of the border town of Juarez, Mexico where since the mid-90’s thousands of women have gone missing or turned up as sun-burnt corpses in the desert. Can new police captain Blanca Bravo stop the savagery?

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Drama, Whistleblowers, Women, Working Class

 

Bad About Being Korean

24 Jan

7m; 

Director: Elissa Moon

Synopsis: Filmmaker’s personal experience of child labor in a family dry-cleaning business

Cast: Jennifer McNulty (831) 459-2495; jmcnulty@ucsc.edu

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Women

 

Balseros (2002)

24 Jan

120m; Spain

Director: Carles Bosch, Josep Maria Domènech

Synopsis: The story of Cuban refugees who risked their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States, and what life is like for those who succeed.

 

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration

 

Bananas (2009)

24 Jan

80m; Sweden

Director: Fredrik Gertten

Synopsis: The human cost of banana cultivation is revealed in this documentary chronicling the case of Nicaraguan laborers, represented by L.A. attorney Juan Dominguez, against the companies who they believe poisoned them with pesticides.

Contact: International Sales: Peter Jager, peter@autlookfilms.com Phone: +43 720 34 69 34 film@wgfilm.com David Magdael & Associates – Los Angeles Winston Emano, wemano@tcdm-associates.com David Magdael, dmagdael@tcdm-associates.com Phone: +1 213 624 7827 http://www.bananasthemovie.com/

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Safety & Health

 

Barack Obama walks a day in the shoes of SEIU member Pauline Beck (2008)

24 Jan

3:48; U.S.

Synopsis: SEIU pioneered an initiative in which all political candidates seeking SEIU endorsement is required to spend a day with an SEIU member at work and at home with their families.During the 2008 election, now President Barack Obama walked a day in the shoes of Pauline Beck, an SEIU member and homecare provider from California.

Contact: Jennifer Wynter jennifer-wynter.philis@seiu.org

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Service Workers, Women, Working Class

 
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