Waging a Living (2005)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Directors:

Roger Weisberg
Pamela Harris (co-director)
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Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

The term "working poor" should be an oxymoron. If you work full time, you should not be poor, but more than 30 million Americans...

Awards:

1 win

Directed by
Roger Weisberg
Pamela Harris		(co-director)
Frances Reid		(co-director)
Edward Rosenstein		(co-director)

Produced by
Deborah Clancy	....	associate producer
Pamela Harris	....	co-producer
Frances Reid	....	co-producer
Edward Rosenstein	....	co-producer
Roger Weisberg	....	producer

Original Music by
Richard Fiocca

Cinematography by
Jim Arnold
Rick Butler
Brian Danitz
Vicente Franco
Slawomir Grunberg
John Hazard
Hilary Morgan
Peter Nelson
Mark Stoddard
Fawn Yacker

Film Editing by
Sandra Christie
Lewis Erskine
Christopher White

Production Management
Tammy Arnstein	....	production manager
Alexis Jallad	....	production manager
Corrie Kaufman	....	production manager
Jessie Pepper	....	production manager

Sound Department
Tom Bergin	....	sound
Ray Day	....	sound
William Doll	....	sound
Richard Fleming	....	sound
Francisco La Torre	....	sound
Lawrence Loewinger	....	sound
Jason Longo	....	sound
Dow McKeever	....	sound editor
Dow McKeever	....	sound re-recording mixer
Gabriel Miller	....	sound
Lauretta Molitor	....	sound
Marsha Moore	....	sound editor
York Phelps	....	sound
Juan Rodriguez	....	sound
Bernard Russo	....	sound
John Steadwell	....	sound

Visual Effects by
Rob Roth	....	title designer

Editorial Department
Josh Braslow	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Aspen Baker	....	production assistant
Chris Borgia	....	production intern
Kaity Cheng	....	production intern
Lea Cho	....	production intern
Heather Clayton	....	production intern
Emily Dimiero	....	production intern
Alexander Emerson	....	production intern
Connor Flynn	....	production intern
Solange Jorge	....	production intern
Andrew Levine	....	production intern
Beth Levine	....	production intern
Mei Chun Lin	....	production intern
Sonal Mahida	....	production intern
Colette Mercier	....	production assistant
Dee Ouellette	....	production assistant
Daniel Powell	....	production intern
Ruby Privateer	....	production assistant
Sheela Reddy	....	production intern
Adrian Rodelo	....	production assistant
Dani Rotstein	....	production intern
Shane Sahadi	....	production assistant
Jennifer Schoen	....	production intern
Elyse Steinberg	....	production intern
Jessica Windt	....	production intern

Production Companies

• Public Policy Productions

Distributors

• Public Policy Productions (2005) (USA) (theatrical)

Runtime:

USA:85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Public Policy Productions

striking reality

"Waging a Living" tells four inter-cut stories of strife and struggle from the streets of America, as it examines the many nuances of being part of the growing population of 'working poor'. Each story becomes more eye-opening than the last, as we get to intimately know the four people the film spotlights. Overall the film shows a faulty system rife with one catch-22 situation after another, where attempts to move away from poverty only prove to create a new type of poverty.

The DVD of "Waging a Living" contains a short film called "Rosevelt's America" that feels less like a companion piece and more like a missing storyline from the film, and does not have its own reference on IMDb. It was made by the same filmmakers as "Waging a Living", and it follows a good natured Liberian refugee who also struggles from paycheck to paycheck, but sees the U.S. system with an outsider's optimistic perspective, full of hope and promise. On the other hand "Waging a Living" offers a far gloomier picture, so in a matter of speaking if they are taken together a much broader scope of the situation is revealed.