56m; U.S.
Director: Robert C. Winn
Synopsis: Poignant stories of Asian immigrant families as their grassroots organizing efforts build community in LA.
Contact: http://www.vconline.org/grassroots/index.html recc by APALA DC’s Malcolm Amado Uno Muno@aflcio.org
91m; Belguim
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Cast: Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West and Diana Franco Galindo
Synopsis: Story of Solo, a kindhearted and friendly 34-year-old Senegalese taxi driver in North Carolina, who is hired by William, a tough 70-year-old white southerner, to drive him to a mountaintop from which William plans to jump to his death.
150m; U.S.
Synopsis: California labor history
http://www.cft.org/member-services/labor-education/golden-lands,-working-hands.html
Contact: Golden Lands, Working Hands, CFT, One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 1440, Oakland, CA 94612, 510/832-8812, or email . Visit the Golden Lands, Working Hands page in the CFT website, http://www.cft.org.
Fred Glass, Communications Director California Federation of Teachers One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 1440 Oakland, CA 94612 510/832-882 fax 510/832-5044
http://www.cft.org
96m; U.S.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell and Aline MacMahon
Synopsis (IMDB): Millionaire turned composer Dick Powell rescues unemployed Broadway people with a new play.
90m; Canada
Director: Donald Shebib
Cast: Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley and Jayne Eastwood
Synopsis (IMDB): Story of desolation as two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in hope of finding a better life. Drifting from job to job: bottling plant, car wash, bowling alley, newspaper delivery, and in between enjoying the night life of the big city. Their previous life is looking better all the time. This movie is a time capsule of Toronto’s Yonge Street – record stores (defunct A&A’s), bars, and old neighbourhood side streets.
118m; U.S.
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Robert Ryan, Tina Louise and Aldo Ray
Synopsis (IMDB): A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as as God’s Little Acre, where anything that comes from the ground will go to God’s work. Eventually he abducts an albino to help him find the gold. Meanwhile, his daughter-in-law is suspected of fooling around with a labor activist out of work since the mill closed, and a local political hopeful actively seeks his daughter’s hand in marriage.
32m; Iraq
Director: Osamu Kimura & Mabui Cine Coop
Synopsis: Iraqi working-class organizing and fight against occupation.
Contact: http://homepage2.nifty.com/cine-mabui/
90m; U.S.
Director: Dean Parisot
Cast: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni and Alec Baldwin
Synopsis: The day before Globodyne’s stock tanks, a la Enron, and its pension fund evaporates, the corporation’s CEO and CFO set up middle manager Dick Harper to be the public face of the disaster. Jobless, and with no savings, pension, or home equity, Dick and his wife Jane sink slowly into poverty. He looks for work (as do all former Globodyne executives); he even tries day labor with the relatives of their Mexican nanny. A foreclosure notice sends Dick and Jane over the edge into a life of blue-collar crime. Then, as things finally look up, the report of an looming indictment pushes Dick and Jane toward a denouement with the real criminals, the white-collar guys
97m; U.S.
Director: Courtney Hunt
Cast: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham and Charlie McDermott
Synopsis (IMDB): Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women – one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances – are drawn into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. Ray and Lila – and a New York State Trooper as opponent in an evolving cat-and-mouse game
U.S.
Director: Haskell Wexler
Synopsis: A filmed version of a Ian Ruskin’s one man-play covering the life of International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union founder and labor radical Harry Bridges.
Contact: Ian Ruskin, theharrybridgesproject@comcast.net; http://www.theharrybridgesproject.org
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