105m
Director: Russ Hexter
Synopsis (WorldCat): Interviews in the Michael Moore/Roger and me tradition examine life in small-town America, class conflicts and the collapse of an upstate New York community, Dadetown, when the town’s once-prosperous factory, reduced to the manufacture of paper clips and staples, finally closes.
90m
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Synopsis: Judy O’Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
6m; U.S.
Director: Firebrand Productions
Synopsis: Teamsters showing dangers on the road and lack of protection for drivers who speak out.
92m; Argentina
Director: Hugo del Carril
Synopsis: The brothers Santos and Rufino Peralta (of Carril and Laxalt) are used like animals in the workplace at the Parana Stop. There they encounter enormous hardship and inhuman conditions of work as a consequence of the immense greed of the managers. A worker’s rebellion is maturing, to the point that it is developed into trade union of workers who respond against their grief. Finally, the workers plot a counterattack and punish their corrupt employers.
10m
Director: LA Alliance for a New Economy
Synopsis: Victory of a community-labor coalition that defeated Wal-Mart’s efforts to locate a mega-store in Inglewood.
Washington, D.C.
Contact: Jose Vanegas Day Labor Coordinator Reston Interfaith Inc. 703-338-2308 joserestonfaith@yahoo.com
115m; Italy
Director: Silvio Soldini
Synopsis: Well-to-do, sophisticated Italian couple face upheavals when the husband is fired by the company he founded. Exhausted by an unsuccessful job hunt, the husband lets himself go, alternating between vivacity and apathy and the growing distance between them eventually leads to a break-up. Only when they part will they realize that they risk losing their most precious possession: the love that binds them.
Contact: http://www.filmmovement.com/filmcatalog/index.asp?MerchandiseID=165 Film Movement, Cambria Matlow: Cambria@filmmovement.com; 212-941-7744 ext. 205
33m; U.S.
Director: Mark Lammert
Synopsis: When a John Deere plant closes in Welland Ontario, director Mark Lammert explores the causes and effects of their decision to move south.
30m; U.S.
Director: Bernard Sanders and Nancy Barnett
Synopsis: Biography of Eugene V. Debs and his relation to unionism and American social history.
56m; U.S.
Director: Bob Hercules & Bruce Orenstein
Synopsis: Legendary organizer Saul Alinsky led the movement to empower disenfranchised communities through collective actions. Now others have taken up the challenge. The film examines Alinsky’s life and adaptive legacy through work being done by two contemporary “people’s organizations.” Case studies of his work in Rochester and recent IAF organizing work in Texas and Brooklyn.
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