Description:
The
first in a new series from the makers of Shift Change, WEconomics: Italy reports on the extensive and innovative
cooperative economy in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
The
Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy has one of the highest
concentrations of cooperative businesses in the developed world. The
capital, Bologna is an industrial powerhouse, where prosperity is
widely shared, and cooperatives of teachers and social workers play a
key role in the provision of government services. Other films by Mark
Dworkin and Melissa Young are Shift Change, We Are Not
Ghosts, Good Food, Argentina: Hope in Hard Times and
Argentina, Turning Around, Net Loss, Another
World is Possible, Not for Sale, Gene Blues, Islas
Hermanas and Risky Business.
Biography:
Previous
productions of Melissa
Young and Mark
Dworkin have won
prestigious awards from CINE, Houston, Media That Matters, Chicago,
NW Film and Video, Women in Film/Seattle, Prix Leonardo,
International Wildlife Festivals and many others. These films are in
broad circulation in academic and community settings and five have
been broadcast nationally on PBS stations. Good
Food, broadcast in 2010,
takes a look at the expanding sustainable food and farming system in
the Pacific Northwest. Argentina
– Turning Around examined worker run factories that arose in Argentina several years
after a severe economic collapse.
