5:30; U.S.
Director: Stuart Cryer
Synopsis: The strike of USW Local 6500 against Vale-INCO is into its sixth month. The strikers’ kids want to deliver their Xmas cards to Vale-INCO, but are left hanging at the company gates.
Contact: Stuart Cryer terraV@cyberbeach.net http://www.vimeo.com/8228584
Director: Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles
Synopsis: Shows your rights in case of a raid by immigration authorities or a police intervention.
Director: MediAct
Synopsis: Korean workers against the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement.
90m; U.S.
Director: Jim Brown
Synopsis: Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Theodore Bikel, Peter Paul & Mary and more celebrate folk music as an agent of social change, and links it explicitly to today’s struggles, including the war in Iraq. Inspiring.
France
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Synopsis: Depressed coalmining region of France
56m
Director: Judy Jackson
Synopsis (Bulldog Films): Craig Kielburger was 12 years old when child labor activist Iqbal Massih was killed in Pakistan. He immediately went on a seven-week trip to South Asia. What he learned has turned him into a passionate, articulate and effective advocate on behalf of child laborers everywhere. He is determined to put child labor on the international agenda. He is 15 years old in this film.
He started a child-run organization called Free the Children, which now has 10,000 members worldwide. It directs lobbying and petition efforts at governments and big business. F.I.F.A. now won’t put its logo on any soccer balls that are made with child labor. Free the Children has raised over $150,000 to buy children out of bondage and create a school for them, while raising world awareness
Contact: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/child.html
8m; U.S.
Synopsis: From Seattle and the WTO, to Mexico and the struggles of Los Mineros, to Colombia and the brutal murders of trade union activists, It’s an Attack highlights the global attack on workers and the ongoing activism of the United Steelworkers in fighting for the rights of all workers, in the U.S. and around the world. The video premiered at the USW 2008 Convention.
19m; India
Synopsis: A health and safety film used by the Indian National Mineworkers’ Federation to educate workers about the consequences of not following health and safety rules and best practices. The film’s use of local language, traditions and entertainment value has proved successful in reaching workers in the mining sector that often come from rural or agrarian backgrounds. Jaan Hai to Jahan Hai is one of several documentaries the INMF has been actively involved in producing regarding workers’ health and safety.
Contact: INMF 2009 Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival
90m; U.S.
Director: William Cayton
Synopsis: Story of black boxer who was forced into exile in 1910.
25m; U.S.
Director: Geri Ashur
Synopsis: Woman who was a white working class wife kicks her husband out. Now on welfare, she describes her new-found militancy.
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