20m; Cuba
Synopsis: Australian workers travel to Cuba.
Category Archives: Politics
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (1981)
63m; U.S.
Director: Joanne Grant
Synopsis: FUNDI: THE STORY OF ELLA BAKER reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker played in shaping the American civil rights movement, such as helping to launch the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The dynamic activist was affectionately known as the Fundi, a Swahili word for a person who passes skills from one generation to another.
Contact: First Run Icarus Film (http://www.frif.com/cat97/f-j/fundi45.html)
COSATU and the Freedom Charter (1987)
60m; South Africa
Director:
Synopsis: Documentary detailing labor strikes by South African unions against the apartheid regime.
Campamento (1972)
Chile
Director: Tom Cohen and Richard Pearce
Synopsis: Depicts unalienated labor of slum dwellers who rebuild their own village in Allende’s Chile.
Capitalism Hits The Fan; Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown (2008)
57m; U.S.
Director:
Synopsis: Renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself.
Contact: http://www.capitalismhitsthefan.com/
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
127m; U.S.
Director: Michael Moore
Synopsis: On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece “Roger & Me,” Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans. But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene is far wider than Flint, Michigan.
Carlo Giuliani, A Boy (“Carlo Giuliani, Ragazzo”) [2002]
63m; Italy
Director: Francesca Comencini
Synopsis: A profile of anti-G8 activist murdered by police in Genoa.
Contact: Print Source Rosella Gori Adriana Chiesa Enterprises Via Barnaba Oriani 24/A – 00197 Rome, Phone: 39 068 070 400 Fax: 39 068 068 7855 Email: adrianachiesa.ent@libero.it
Carry on Ken (2006)
40m; U.K.
Director: Toby Reisz
Synopsis: Profile of filmmaker Ken Loach’s life and his work.
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.
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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