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
Category Archives: Politics
Chocolate City (2007)
Christ in Concrete (aka Give Us This Day) [1949]
120m; U.K.
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Synopsis: Italian immigrant Germenio (blacklisted American actor Sam Wanamaker), exploits his fellow workers in dangerous construction work in order to provide for his own family. Set in NYC’s Little Italy (but shot entirely in England!), this compelling working class drama was the only film made by director Dmytryk after he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee and before he became a “friendly” witness. immigrants; construction workers
City of Hope (1991)
129m; U.S.
Director: John Sayles
Synopsis: Urban politics, focusing on the tensions between urban redevelopment and community development in a city undergoing gentrification; based on Jersey City or Hoboken, NJ. It has some interesting scenes about organizing and politics.
Coal Mining and the Black Lung Movement (2008)
U.S.
Synopsis: Three-part documentary of a political movement called the Black Lung Movement, centered in southern West Virginia. The DVD has three separate films on it – “Black Lung: A History (MSHA), News coverage of 1960’s Black Lung Movement, and “Reflections” which is a history of MSHA and federal government agencies over the decades that worked on protecting miners.
Contact: Richard Hanna, District Director U.S. Department of Labor ESA/OWCP/DCMWC Charleston Federal Center – Suite 110 500 Quarrier Street Charleston, West Virginia 25301 Commercial: (304) 347-7100 Toll-Free (800) 347-3749 Hanna.Richard@dol.gov
Come Back Africa (1960)
95m
Director: Lionel Rogosin
Cast: Zachria Makeba, Miriam Makeba, Vinah Makeba, Molly Parkin
Synopsis: New print of what is now a classic ‘docu-fictie’ provides a unique picture of South Africa in the 1950s, made at that time under great pressure of time with non-professional actors and without permission from the authorities. Zacharia is a worker without a work permit and therefore falls victim to exploitation, sudden dismissal and arrest.
Contact: International Film Festival Rotterdam Production Department: production@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
Come See the Paradise (1992)
138m; U.S.
Director: Alan Parker
Synopsis: Internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
The Comedy of Power (2006)
110m; France
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand and Patrick Bruel
Synopsis: Inspired by the Elf Aquitaine scandal of the 1990s, which exposed extensive corruption in France’s giant gas company
La Commune (Paris, 1871) [2001]
345m; France
Director: Peter Watkins
Cast: Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux and Bernard Bombeau
Synopsis: A miniseries following children, women, shopkeepers & nuns reveal fascinating historical detail of the 1871 Paris Commune by sharing their opinions of the political climate.
Communist Rallies in Michigan (1930?)
20m; U.S.
Director: Workers Film and Photo League
Synopsis: Depression-era film of Communist Rallies in Michigan
Considering Democracy: 8 Things to Ask Your Representative (2007)
57m; U.S.
Director: Keya Lea Horiuchi
Synopsis: Explores how the rest of the world thinks of the US and how the US compares on social and political issues.
Contact: keyalea@yahoo.com 970 596-7267 (Cell)
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