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Truth Through A Lens

A stunning feature length debut by an SVA Soc Doc MFA graduate, Justin Thomas, who follows the evolution of Brooklyn street kid, subway train tagger and local community organizing legend, Dennis Flores. Dennis had the courage to pick up a camera, when he saw his neighbors being physically abused for simple demanding decent housing and better treatment by the local police. Of course Dennis himself quickly becomes the target of those for whom telling the truth is not necessarily considered part of the daily job.

https://www.facebook.com/truthlens2014

 

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Tatanka

Behind every activist that fought for civil rights or occupied Wall Street, there was a loved one who also sacrificed. Tatanka follows the bizarre and heartrending journey of one man whose unchecked idealism helped change the world but nearly tore his family apart. This is a very personal and provocative look at a turbulent and life-changing time in our history. Featuring Joan Baez, Cesar Chavez and Daniel Ellsberg.

Directed by: Jacob Bricca

http://www.tatankamovie.com/

 
 

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Twin Cities Assembly Plant: A Job and a Family

  • Format: DVD Video, 40 min., with bonus 14 min. slideshow
  • Publisher: Labor Education Service, U of MN
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  • Product ##: 7517

The history of the Twin Cities Ford Assembly Plant, United Auto Workers Local 879 and the unique community of workers in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood.

Since 1925, Ford Motor Company has operated a manufacturing plant on the banks of the Mississippi River in Saint Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood, employing thousands of workers. This documentary tells the history of the Twin Cities Assembly Plant, United Auto Workers Local 879 and the unique community both hourly and salaried workers created inside and outside the factory.

$20; order here: http://shop.mnhs.org/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=2607

 

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Another Promise (2014)

original title: Another Family

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoDM1d8aqJ4
  

Based on a true story of a working-class family whose daughter went to work at Samsung semiconductor factory, contracted leukemia during her time there and died from the disease in 2007.

Crowd-Sourced Film on Samsung Debuts
http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2013/10/09/crowd-sourced-film-on-samsung-debuts/

 

Ann Kore Moun – Collective Action: A Force For Development

(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

 

Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement

(Regan Brashear, 2013, 60 min) A closer look at the drive to be “better than human” and the radical technological innovations that may take us there.
http://www.fixedthemovie.com

 

Sanctuary Camp

(Brent Adams, 2014, 27 min) Successful camps providing housing for homeless.

 

Dogtown Redemption

(Amir Soltani, 2014, film in post production) America’s untouchables who survive by recycling trash in Oakland, CA.
http://www.redemptiondoc.org/

 

We Women Warriors

(Nicole Karsin, 2012, 82 min)
122 tribes of indigenous people caught between revolutionary guerillas and Colombian armed forces are an endangered species.
http://wewomenwarriors.com

 

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