Los Cartoneros Michael McLean 2006, 26 min., Color, US/Argentina Juanchi, a 21-year-old from a small town outside Buenos Aires, supports himself and his family by digging through trash. Six days a week, he roams the street of the Argentine capital in search of card...
Land, Rain & Fire: Report from Oaxaca Tami Gold & Gerardo Renique Producer: Tami Gold & Gerardo Renique 2007, 30 min., Color, US/Mexico What began as a teachers' strike for better wages and more resources for students has erupted into a massive movement for profound social change in the state of Oaxaca. With the largest indigenous pop...
Never Again Marta Rodríguez and Fernando Restrepo 2001, 56 min., Color, Colombia In the violent and complex conflict that has racked Colombia, the most vulnerable are always the most affected. The URABÁ TRILOGY presents the stories of Afrocolombian peasants displaced from their la...
Raised by Our Own Authority Mauricio Acosta Producer: Association of Indigenous Councils of the North of Cauca 2006, 24 min., Color, Colombia In May 2006, more than 300,000 Colombians, including indigenous communities and social justice organizations came together at the National Traveling Summit to demand a national referendum on the Free ...
Secondhand (Pepe) Hanna Rose Shell & Vanessa Bertozzi 2007, 24 min., Color, United States/Haiti/Canada In this documentary about used clothing, the historical memoir of a Jewish immigrant rag picker intertwines with the present-day story of 'pepe' — secondhand clothing that flows from North America to ...
Student Movement in Indonesia: 15 Years Later Tino Saroengallo 2013, 93 min., Color, Indonesia In May 1998, the student movement in Indonesia, a popular movement denouncing the collapse of the Indonesian economy and demanding the end of President Suharto's authoritarian regime, accomplished the...
Tinku Kamayu Mabel Maio 2008, 30 min., Color, Argentina This inspiring documentary tells the story of a group of Indigenous women who responded to Argentina's economic crisis by rediscovering the ancestral tradition of spinning and weaving wool. They call ...
Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the Struggle of the Fourth World War Marcelo Andrade Arreaza 2004, 76 min., Color, Venezuela From the Caracazo riots in 1989 to the popular re-election of Hugo Chavez, this film examines Chavez's presidency as it relates to the worldwide movement against neoliberalism and globalization....
Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization Jayne Cortez 2007, 75 min., Color, US Globalization, now a buzzword in the West, has been a phenomenon that has shaped the culture and politics of Africa and its diaspora for centuries. YARI YARI PAMBERI brings together women from across ...
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