28m; Pakistan
Director: Aisha Gazdar
Synopsis: This film highlights the issues concerning women workers in Pakistan including factory workers, domestic workers as well as home based workers, their problems are the same. Working at extremely low wages women not only face harassment on the roads but also at work, this film gives an overview of the plight of the woman worker. – http://www.filmsdart.com/yeh_hath_salamat.shtml
87m; Greece
Director: Maria Ilou
Synopsis: “A meticulously researched story of how the 400,000 Greek immigrants who flooded through Ellis Island from the 1890s to the 1920s played a key role in making America great without losing sight of who they were and from whence they came.”
Contact: Proteus T: 30 693 240 0632 proteusnonprofit@earthlink.net http://www.thejourneygreekamericandream.org
30m; U.S.
Synopsis: This documentary focuses on Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. Anna Sale of West Virginia Public Broadcasting produced “The Kingmaker.” It first aired Nov. 3, 2005, as part of the program “Outlook” on West Virginia PBS.
53m; U.S.
Director: Jenny Rohrer, Greg LeRoy
http://www.kartemquin.com/films/the-last-pullman-car
Synopsis: In 1864, George Pullman began selling his famous railroad sleeping cars which helped him build a vast industrial empire that was supposed to last forever. In 1981, however, Pullman workers found themselves in the midst of a fight not only for their jobs but the future of the American rail car industry. One hundred years of government, union and corporate policies are traced in this engaging story.
Contact: Available from New Day Films 22 Riverview Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470.
26m; South Africa
Director: Open Eye Productions
Synopsis: Strike of South African workers.
40m; U.S.
Director: Steve Bognar & Julia Reichert
Synopsis: An intimate look at the final days of a General Motors Plant in Moraine, Ohio, and the lives of the workers affected by its closing.
81m; Spain
Director: Jawad Rhalib
Synopsis: Where do the perfect fruits and vegetables of Europe come from? This film shows the deplorable conditions of the more than 80,000 Moroccan immigrants living and literally slaving under the plastic sheet that protect the crops, and above all, the laws of profit in southern Spain.
Contact: Clap d’Ort Films Sprl + 32 485 709 737 mo@clapdortfilms.be / http://elejidothelawofprofit.blogspot.com jrhalib@latchodrom.be
13m; Israel
Director: Yonatan Ben Efrat
Synopsis: At one of central Israel’s largest junctions, in a surreal underground world, live hundreds of Palestinian workers in hiding in order to find a day’s work and bring something home to their families in the West Bank. Deep in the concrete skeleton of an abandoned shopping mall, the workers sleep during the week. Those who have been arrested in the past confirm that the mall is worse than jail, yet they don’t ask for freedom – they only want a day’s work.
Contact: 2009 Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival World Health Organisation and Video 48
2007, US, 58 minutes
Directed by Laura Pacheco
Produced by John de Graaf and Laura Pacheco
Writer – John de Graaf
Executive Producer – Joan Blades
Photographer/Editor – Diana Wilmar
Music – Claudia Schmidt
Narrator – Mary Steenburgen
Looks at the obstacles facing working mothers and families and the employer and public policy changes needed to restore work-life balance.
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