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?
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
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
90m; U.S.
Director: Barbara Kopple
Synopsis: Examines the personal and professional lives of five women journalists in the line of fire during the war in Iraq and other perilous assignments.
45m; U.S.
Director: Tia Lessin
Synopsis: Expose of sweatshop conditions on Saipan.
Contact: Witness; 212-274-1664 witness@witness.org tia@igc.org Winner 2002 Sidney Hillman Award http://www.uniteunion.org/pressbox/050102-hillman.html
Synopsis: Thailand’s booming economy rests on the exploitation of rural women. Through portraits of three women, we see the human cost of the country’s rapid industrialization.
3m; U.S.
Director: Hope Tucker
Synopsis: Life of garment workers.
101m; U.K.
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Kim Vithana, Jimmi Harkishin and Sarita Khajuria
Synopsis (IMDB): A group of women, of East Indian origin, mostly Punjabi-speaking, settled in Great Britain, decide to hire a bus and take a day off. They decide to go a beach resort. In the early hours of the morning, they gather together, and get ready for the ride on the bus. This is a day none of them will forget and some will even cherish for the rest of their lives, as events unfold, and each woman must use her individual strength to face the challenges of their life – even during an outing on the beach
83m; Brazil
Director: Carlos Diegues
Cast: Leonardo Villar, Anecy Rocha, Antonio Pitanga, Joel Barcellos, Sérgio Bernardes, Hugo Carvana
Synopsis: Luzia comes from the backwoods of Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, in search of her fiancé. But soon she’ll find out he has turned into a dangerous criminal and is being looked after by the police.
90m; Portugal
Director: Flora Gomes
Cast: Jorge Quintino Biague, Marcelo Cabral and Jacquelina Camara
Synopsis: A beautiful, intelligent and flirtatious young girl, Yonta, is secretly in love with a friend of her parents, Vicente, a hero of the war of independence. Vicente is unaware of her passion as she is of the love of a young man who sends her anonymous love letters.
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