In the spring of 2008, the mostly immigrant car wash workers throughout Los Angeles formed the Carwash Workers Organizing Committee (CWOC) of the United Steelworkers (USW) to raise their standard of living, secure basic workplace protections and address the serious environmental and safety hazards in their industry. The city of Los Angeles has more car washes than any other metropolitan area in the country. A multi-million dollar industry, with a typical return on investment of more than 40 pe...
a neighborhood of car repair shops and immigrant labourers battles gentrification in queens, new york. super 8.
At once roving street dance, super8 roadtrip, and barrier tear-down, this short documentary takes the form of a three part musical odyssey and features local musician Alden Penner and Algerian refugee Abdelkader Belaouni from the confines of his church-based sanctuary. In collaboration with an accumulating cast of music-makers and neighbours, a choreographed street rebellion becomes a poignant treatise on the meaning and political import of movement, by the dynamite of a tenth of a second.
alienation, spirituality, and the city in super8
A cinematic journey through the roads of occupation and resistance in the West Bank of Palestine.
Injury is a full-length documentary film about about a blue-collar Canadian town in the throes of a massive epidemic of cancers among its workers. Host to nearly half of Canada’s petrochemical producing industries as well as the nation’s largest toxic waste dump, Sarnia is a lunch-box town where everyone you speak to has cancer - or can name half a dozen who have died of it. In the wake of rising death tolls, a growing movement of blue-collar widows have pitted themselves against some of the w...
