17m; U.S.
Synopsis: Story of Medina, who became UFCW VP and then SEIU VP, leading movement to organize immigrant workers and fight for immigration reform.
Contact: luciaduncan@gmail.com Jennifer.Wynter-Philis@seiu.org
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Trouble Sleeping (2008)
42m; Ireland
Director: Robert Rae
Synopsis: Survivors of torture that become refugees in Edinburgh.
Contact: ktough@twe.org.uk 07971590315 (Cell)
Trouble the Water (2008)
90m; U.S.
Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Synopsis: A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Turn Around America: AFL-CIO Video 2008 (2008)
10m; U.S.
Synopsis: AFL-CIO video on its plan to make health care a major topic of the 2008 elections.
Turning a Corner (2006)
59m; U.S.
Director: Salome Chasnoff
Cast: Joanne Archibald, Brandy Baldwin and Juan Barbieri
Synopsis (IMDB): Turning a Corner tells the stories of people involved in sex work and their efforts to raise public awareness of systemic injustice and promote needed reforms. Created with 15 members of Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), this groundbreaking film recounts their struggle with homelessness, violence, and discrimination, and gives rare insights into the harsh realities of Chicago’s sex trade industry
The Twenties (1969)
25m; U.S.
Synopsis (IMDB): Analyzes the forces which arose after World War I and wre at work in the 1920s. Describes the conflict between those who accepted the complexity of the twentieth century and tried to cope with it, and those who rejected the new and tried to live according to past values.
Contact: Project 7 Productions
Twenty Years Later (1985)
119m; Brazil
Director: Eduardo Coutinho
Synopsis (IMDB): Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
Two Acres of Land / Do Bigha Zamin (1953)
131m; India
Director: Bimal Roy
Cast: Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy and Rattan Kumar
Synopsis: A small Bengali landowner and his young son are in danger when their two-acre farmland where they live is in danger of being taken over by a local zamindar (feudal lord) for failure to pay for mounting debits. They move to Calcutta where the father tries making a living as a rickshaw puller while his wife joins him but falls ill which threatens everything they have going to try to save their ancestral home.
Contact: Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd. (2003) (India) (DVD) Shemaroo House No. 18 Marol Co-operative-Industrial Estate Andheri East, Mumbai 400059 India Phn: +91 222 8529911
Two Aliens (2002)
55m;
Director: Suhi Choi
Suhi Choi received a BA in Korean History from Korea University in Seoul, MFA in TV Production from Brooklyn College in New York. She is a doctoral student of Mass Media and Communication Program, Temple University in Philadelphia. Her documentary, Two Aliens, dealing with conflicts between Korean grocery owners and Mexican workers in New York City, was presented both in the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan.
Two Lost Souls on a Dirty Night (2002)
100m; Brazil
Director: José Joffily
Cast: Guy Camilleri, Roberto Bomtempo and Theodoris Castellanos
Synopsis: Two Brailizans trade lack of opportunity in Brazil for illusion of the American Dream.
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