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Comment on About the Project by Patrick Chalmers

Patrick Chalmers — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:21 +0000

The film is of interest in any case – with or without subtitles.

I wouldn’t rule out being able to help with a French version, though more to find people to help than to do it. My French is pretty fluent though not native, and it is always better to translate into your own language, particularly for the idioms required for subtitles. I do know people who subtitle some of the Promedios Chiapas/zapatista films into French from Spanish and English. They might be able to help with this.

As for French conventional screenings, the small cinema chain Utopia is doing good work, I think Anne-Marie Faucon is the person you might speak to there, via this link: http://www.cinemas-utopia.org/U-blog/toulouse/index.php?contact

My personal interest is for the monthly screenings in a rural French village south of Toulouse, where our audiences range from 20 to a few dozen depending on the subject.

Comment on About the Project by movingimages1

movingimages1 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:22:13 +0000

Thanks for your interest. Our distributor BULLFROG FILMS does make films available to activists for non-commercial use at a very low cost rate, and they plan to do so with SHIFT CHANGE. As for a French subtitled version, we had not planned to release one, but perhaps we should. Spanish, yes, since all of our films are released in both English and Spanish, and nearly all of the Mondragon interviews were conducted in Spanish, as were some interviews at coops in the U.S. Is a French versiuon something with which you could assist us?

Comment on About the Project by Patrick Chalmers

Patrick Chalmers — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:03:02 +0000

Also very interested in what you’re doing, not least for our programme of regular micro-screenings in SW France. Will you be subtitling in French? Will you have micro-screening roll-out plans (aka cheap/no/donation-based licence arrangements?)

Comment on Madison cooperatives booming, both old and new by Shift Change Filmmakers Visit Madison Worker Cooperatives | electriciansblog.net

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:15:09 +0000

[...] and home to several worker cooperatives that have been in business for over 30 years. Rebecca works at Union Cab, founded in 1979, which now boasts 228 worker members – drivers, mechan… Rebecca drove us around and pointed out other long standing Madison coops like Nature’s Bakery [...]

Comment on Inspired by Mondragon, Chicago works to bring back world class manufacturing by Cato the Younger

Cato the Younger — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:05:41 +0000

Reblogged this on American Political Reader and commented: This is precisely the sort of thing needed to put the asshole executives at Apple in their place. I would love to see something like this pop up near me.

Comment on Madison cooperatives booming, both old and new by Thiswayout WorkersCoops

Thiswayout WorkersCoops — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:40:43 +0000

Excellent! Note: Third Coast Workers for Cooperation in Texas are now Texas Worker Cooperative Network.

Comment on Featured Stories by Bernard Marszalek

Bernard Marszalek — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:50:16 +0000

Greetings,

Thanks for your posts. I look forward to them. Will you return to the SF Bay area before finishing the film? If so don’t miss Richmond CA where the US first municipal coop developer has been hired by a Mayor who visited Mondragon two years ago.

-bernard

Comment on Links & Resources by Jai Jai Noire

Jai Jai Noire — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:43:56 +0000

The 2-DVD set “This Way Out: A Guide For Starting A Worker Cooperative” is done, and reviews back so far of the preview copies I sent out are glowing. Trying to get this out quickly, so the current step is to figure out the feasibility of getting a desired Spanish voice over translation track done expeditiously. Below is the Disc/Track list and on screen interviewees list.
“THIS WAY OUT: A GUIDE TO STARTING A WORKER COOPERATIVE”
2 disc set, 248 minutes total

Producer/Camera/Edit: Jai Jai Noire

Geared to small start up’s (10 or less people) with little, or limited, access to capital. On the DVD delivering the info: Quilted, Box Dog Bikes, Co-Soap, Tech Collective, Electric Embers, Design Action Collective, Cheeseboard, Eco Care, Arizmendi, Bio Fuel Oasis, Mandela Foods, A Taste of Denmark, Other Avenue Natural Foods, Neil Heflan (attorney), Van P. Baldwin (attorney/CPA), Melissa Hoover (USFWC), Gary Bell (CEO, Cooperative Federal Credit Union), Jenny Kassan (Attorney), Kim Coontz (Calif Center Coop. Development), with a special appearance by Jim Hightower (author, commentator)

“THIS WAY OUT: A GUIDE TO STARTING A WORKER COOPERATIVE”
2 disc set, 248 minutes total

Track list:

Disc 1

1-Disclaimer :23
2-Intro 1:26
3-Intro to Coop Principles 6:46
4-Intro to By-Laws 13:48
5-Choosing A Legal Entity 13:32
6-Subordination Of Capital, Democracy, Patronage 3:17
7-SubChapter T 2:13
8-DBA, Business License, EIN, Permits, Zoning 11:13
9-State Filings 2:17
10-Funding Your Coop 30:05
11-How They Met 4:59
12-The Importance of Meetings 4:34
13-Hiring & Training 20:40
14-Unions & Coops 2:37
15-Resource List for Small Start-Up’s 3:30
16-Credits & Thanks You’s 1:15
TRT: 123 mins

Disc 2

Disclaimer :23
Bookkeeping Crash Course 30:26
Communication & Process 42:36
Advice for StartUp’s 14:02
Credits & Thanks You’s 1:15
Meet & Greet 37:26

TRT: 125 mins

Comment on About the Project by movingimages1

movingimages1 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:43:49 +0000

We begin editing in earnest in January. And we have a bounty of terrific material to draw from – about the cooperatives in the U.S. as well as the remarkable Mondragon Cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain. We plan to be finished in the middle of 2012, and we are on track to do that. Keep checking back at HTTP://SHIFTCHANGE.ORG for progress reports and announcements of early screenings.

Comment on About the Project by Deborah Hawkins

Deborah Hawkins — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:24:20 +0000

I have been showing older films about worker cooperatives and am VERY excited about what you are doing. Do you have an estimate of when your film will be available? As you probably know, 2012 is the International Year of the Cooperative. Lots of organizations and people plan to use this banner to promote worker cooperatives and having your film available to aid this effort would be wonderful.
Deborah H.