30m; U.S.
Director: Sue Hagedorn
Synopsis: 83 day nurses’ strike.
Contact: www.holdingthelinefilm.com
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The Hollywood Librarian: A Look At Librarians Through Film (2007)
96m; U.S.
Director: Ann Seidl
Synopsis: How librarians are seen in film.
Contact: http://www.hollywoodlibrarian.com Melissa McGuire; mdmcguire@charter.net
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)
The Garment Jungle (1957)
88m; U.S.
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews and Gia Scala
Synopsis: Sweatshop workers.
Gervaise (1956)
112m; France
Director: René Clément
Cast: Maria Schell, François Périer and Jany Holt
Synopsis: Story of a scrubwoman’s struggle to climb out of poverty and how she sinks back in. Based on the Emile Zola novel.
Giving Care (2007)
11m;
Director: Clarissa De Los Reyes
Synopsis: When a phone call brings news of her father’s death in the Philippines, a Filipino caregiver working illegally in New York City must make a choice between her duties as the family breadwinner and her desire to go home to grieve her father’s death. “Giving Care” is a story about one of the worst fears of an immigrant far away from home: not being there when a loved one goes.
Business as Usual (1987)
89m; Australia
Director: Lezli-An Barrett
Synopsis (IMDB): After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing organizer, and takes her plight to the union.
Bölge (The Zone) [2010]
40m; Turkey
Director: Güliz Saglam, Feryal Saygiligil
Synopsis: Seven workers, all women. Four free-trade zones in four different Turkish cities. Surrounded by high walls, barbed wire fences, very much like a concentration camp. This documentary covers the working conditions of women in the free-trade zones, their experiences, observations and their hopes for the future. The barbed wire fences not only surround the zones but also accentuate the captivity of women workers. So much so that the borders of the zone evade us, inside and outside become indistinguishable.
Call Me Sister, Call Me Brother (1988)
21m; Canada
Director: Canadian Auto Workers
Synopsis: Documentary about sexual harassment on the job and the women who are affected by it. Video shows how the issue, if not dealt with, can weaken or destroy a local union by dividing men and women on issues.
Cama Adrento (2004)
83m; Argentina
Director: Jorge Gaggero
Synopsis: A wealthy woman and her live-in housekeeper must adjust their entrenched routines and relationship when Buenos Aires is plunged into an economic crisis.
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