57m; U.S.
Director:
Synopsis: Renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself.
Contact: http://www.capitalismhitsthefan.com/
127m; U.S.
Director: Michael Moore
Synopsis: On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece “Roger & Me,” Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans. But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene is far wider than Flint, Michigan.
63m; Italy
Director: Francesca Comencini
Synopsis: A profile of anti-G8 activist murdered by police in Genoa.
Contact: Print Source Rosella Gori Adriana Chiesa Enterprises Via Barnaba Oriani 24/A – 00197 Rome, Phone: 39 068 070 400 Fax: 39 068 068 7855 Email: adrianachiesa.ent@libero.it
40m; U.K.
Director: Toby Reisz
Synopsis: Profile of filmmaker Ken Loach’s life and his work.
44m; U.S.
Director: Dolissa Medina
Synopsis: Focuses on the San Francisco earthquake and the role of the firefighters in saving people and defending the city from the flames.
60m; U.S.
Director: Ernesto Livon-Grosman
Synopsis: Economic crises forces Argentinian middle class into ranks of the Buenos Aires trash pickers.
Contact: Brittany Gravely, brittany@der.org 800.569.6621 http://www.cartonerosdoc.com/Cartoneros.html
13m; VHS; year unknown
Produced by SEIU
About Bread and Roses Cultural Project founder Moe Foner, who, years before he went to work for labor unions, had played saxophone in a swing band with his brothers. They did gigs at upstate Borscht Belt retreats and Manhattan hotels, and along the way came to know many other musicians, as well as actors and artists. The Brothers Foner were leftists with a vision; one went on to lead the furriers’ union, two others became renowned historians. Moe worked for several unions before landing at 1199 in 1952, back when it was a small union of pharmacy employees. Even then, he was looking for ways to integrate culture with his union work. He found a sympathetic ear in 1199’s founding president, Leon Davis, one that continues with current union head Dennis Rivera, who oversaw a vastly transformed organization, representing more than 200,000 workers.
The project took its name from the slogan advanced by striking workers in the bitter 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, “We Want Bread and Roses Too.”
33m; France
Director: Camy Julien
Synopsis: Profile of Algerian baker working in France.
2570m
Director: Winfried Junge
Synopsis (Filmmuseum Pottsdam): n 1961, Winfried Junge took up the idea and vision of documentary filmmaker Karl Gass to make a film about a school class and to accompany the children’s life with the camera. No one would have thought that the story of the children from a small village in the Oderbruch would, one day, become a work portraying GDR everyday life, the German reunification and the first steps into a new everyday life.
60m
Broadcast Date: NBC, July 19, 2010
Producers: David Corvo, Nick Capote and Rayner Ramirez
Synopsis (Dateline NBC): For thousands of children in America, summer means hard labor in the hot sun. They’re migrant laborers working alongside their struggling parents on America’s farms. Dateline took its cameras and found a story of hardship, perserverence, and love.
Website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38312193/ns/dateline_nbc/t/america-now-children-harvest/
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