60m; U.S.
Director: Claude Beller and Stefan Moore
Synopsis: Examines the economic problems of the New York City garment industry, including sweatshop working conditions, the plight of the working poor, the state of trade unionism, the impact of imports, and the role of organized crime in the apparel industry. – http://cinemaguild.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TCGS&Product_Code=1539
90m; U.S.
Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Synopsis: A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning in post-Katrina New Orleans.
10m; U.S.
Synopsis: AFL-CIO video on its plan to make health care a major topic of the 2008 elections.
59m; U.S.
Director: Salome Chasnoff
Cast: Joanne Archibald, Brandy Baldwin and Juan Barbieri
Synopsis (IMDB): Turning a Corner tells the stories of people involved in sex work and their efforts to raise public awareness of systemic injustice and promote needed reforms. Created with 15 members of Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), this groundbreaking film recounts their struggle with homelessness, violence, and discrimination, and gives rare insights into the harsh realities of Chicago’s sex trade industry
25m; U.S.
Synopsis (IMDB): Analyzes the forces which arose after World War I and wre at work in the 1920s. Describes the conflict between those who accepted the complexity of the twentieth century and tried to cope with it, and those who rejected the new and tried to live according to past values.
Contact: Project 7 Productions
119m; Brazil
Director: Eduardo Coutinho
Synopsis (IMDB): Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
In Twinning the Blue Water Bridge, the workers, contractors, engineers and dignitaries tell the story in their own words, sharing personal observations, emotions and experiences of constructing the second Blue Water Bridge. Spanning the St. Clair River between Port Huron, Michigan and Point Edward, Ontario, it was the first new international bridge built between Canada and the US in over 30 years.. This 55-minute documentary chronicles the entire construction process from its design and planning phase in 1994 through the dedication ceremonies in July 1997.
It concludes with one of the most dazzling fireworks displays ever seen: walls of fire cascading into the river and rockets shooting off the bridge almost endlessly into the night.
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55m;
Director: Suhi Choi
Suhi Choi received a BA in Korean History from Korea University in Seoul, MFA in TV Production from Brooklyn College in New York. She is a doctoral student of Mass Media and Communication Program, Temple University in Philadelphia. Her documentary, Two Aliens, dealing with conflicts between Korean grocery owners and Mexican workers in New York City, was presented both in the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan.
52m; U.S.
Director: Line Halvorsen
Synopsis: University Professor Sami Al-Arian targeted by US after 9/11
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