(André Vanasse & Jean-Nathan Aristil, 2012, 36 min) Unions in many sectors of Haitian society and their role in economic development.
http://www.productionsbonsai.com
Category Archives: Working Class
Ann Kore Moun – Collective Action: A Force For Development
Dogtown Redemption
(Amir Soltani, 2014, film in post production) America’s untouchables who survive by recycling trash in Oakland, CA.
http://www.redemptiondoc.org/
Where Soldiers Come From
(Heather Courtney, 2011) A documentary that chronicles four years in the lives of childhood friends as they enter a faraway war.
http://www.wheresoldierscomefrom.com
American Made Movie
(Nathaniel Thomas McGill & Vincent Vittorio, 2013, 82 min) The positive impact of domestic manufacturing jobs on national and local economies in the face of declining employment in this sector.
http://theamericanmademovie.com/
Der Stuhl (The Chair)
(Daniel Martín Gómez, 2013, 14 min) Two women job seekers who emigrated to Germany, from different ends of Spain and two generations facing two very different ways of emigrating.
Let It Be War (2012)
Directed by: Andrew Heaberlin
Narrative Short (18 minutes) 2012
A young coal miner returns home from the Second World War to the unchanged, harsh reality of life in a company town. Unionization has the town divided and thoroughly at war with itself. Still, the miners toil away in the depths of the mountains, harvesting the company’s black gold. Jim struggles to support his family, and in his darkest hour, he and the other miners summon the will to act. They strike back against the company, sending structures crashing to the ground in a heap of fiery rubble.
The Lithuanian Jungle – Upton Sinclair-inspired Documentary
Trailer for “The Lithuanian Jungle”, the documentary feature film from Storytellers International coming in 2011. The film is based on the characters in the book “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. Filmed on location in Chicago and told in a investigative journalism style by filmmakers Randy Richards, Giedrius Subacius and Risé Sanders, this documentary reveals the unknown characters behind the literary classic.
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