Councilwoman
A Dominican-born hotel housekeeper Carmen Castillo navigates serving on the City Council in Providence, Rhode Island while working a full-time job cleaning hotel rooms. Politicians aren’t often also union members working service jobs, immigrants and grandmothers. But Carmen Castillo changes that with determination to serve her community through efforts to raise wages and clean up her neighborhood amidst corporate interests organizing to undermine their progress. This feature length film is a journey behind the scenes of politics after the victory.
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56m
Councilwoman
56m
The film follows the journey of a Dominican-born hotel housekeeper Carmen Castillo as she navigates serving on the City Council in Providence, Rhode Island while working a full-time job cleaning hotel rooms.
COUNCILWOMAN is a co-production of Time Travel Productions LLC, in association with Ray...
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1 videoCouncilwoman
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A Dominican-born hotel housekeeper Carmen Castillo navigates serving on the City Council in Providence, Rhode Island while working a full-time job cleaning hotel rooms. Politicians aren’t often also union members working service jobs, immigrants and grandmothers. But Carmen Castillo changes that ...
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1 videoThe Philadelphia Eleven
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In an act defying traditions and norms, a group of eleven women and their supporters organize their ordination to become Episcopal priests in 1974 at the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Despite relentless threats and harassment, they follow their call with grace and con...