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May Day Film Festival!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Payal Parekh)
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The Red and Green of May Day, a project of Spontaneous Celebrations and
Jobs with Justice & The Greater Boston Labor Council present the:
Third Annual Labor Film Festival
May 1-5 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
(except for "BREAD and ROSES")
**********Student Tickets are only $5! ***************
Wednesday, May 1
7-9:45 pm
HOWARD ZINN introduces the film "Occupation" with Ben Affleck narrating the
story of the student sit-in at Harvard in support of the Harvard Living Wage
Campaign. Hear student sit-in and Janitors union representatives.
MUSIC OF THE MOVEMENT:
See the latest film clips of current labor actions with soundtrack music
from Billy Bragg, Sting, Tracy Chapman and others.
Live performances: Minnesota's Larry Long, the man Studs Terkel called "the
closest thing America has to Woody Guthrie." Boston's own Martha Leader,
Reverend David Carl Olson and Sergio Reyes. Songs by members of A Besere
Velt: the Yiddish Community Chorus of the Workmen's Circle.
Thursday, May 2
7-9 pm
BOSTON PREMIERE of BARBARA KOPPLE'S "American Standoff", nominated for Grand
Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival. American Standoff puts the viewer on
the front lines of one of the largest and costliest strikes in the Teamsters
Union's history. This rousing film illustrates the problems workers face
when once-powerful unions lose their grip. Ms Kopple has won Academy Awards
for her labor films "Harlan County USA" and "American Dream"
Barbara Kopple and director Kristi Jacobson will be present to discuss the
film along with union and labor activists. Tom Juravich, composer and
performer of the music for Kopple's "Out of Darkness", the history of the
Mine Workers' Union, will play.
Reception with Barbara Kopple, Kristi Jacobsen and other special guests
before film!
Space is limited, please
RSVP: 617-232-4222.
Friday,May 3
6:30-10:30 pm
* LABOR CLASSICS FILM NIGHT:
(each film is a separate admission)
Showing at 6:45pm:
"Salt of the Earth", the only film ever banned by the US Government and one
of those selected by the Smithsonian Institute as among "the greatest 100
films ever made"
Discussion with guest filmaker John Gianvito. Born in the city of New York,
in 1956, he studied film in the California Institute of Arts and later at
MIT. He is currently Associate Curator and Film Programmer of the Harvard
film archive, and is editing a compilation of interviews with Andrej
Tarkovsky. The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein is his second feature.
Showing at 9pm:
"The Killing Floor", winner of the Special Jury award at the Sundance Film
Festival, a true story of the Chicago 1919 labor struggles with Moses Gunn.
NY Newsday: " a classic study in class hate, greed and stubborn idealism.
You won't forget it."
Dr. John Trumpbour, Research Director of the Harvard Trade Union Program
will introduce the film.
Born in North Carolina, the third of twelve children, John Trumpbour studied
History at Stanford and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the
editor of The Dividing Rhine: Politics and Society in Contemporary France
and Germany (Oxford: Berg, 1989) and author of Selling Hollywood to the
World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry,
1920-1950 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002). He recently co-wrote
an essay with Elaine Bernard, Executive Director of the Harvard Trade Union
Program, on Latino workers for an edited book to be published by University
of California Press.
We will also show a premiere of:
"Invisible Workforce", a short film (9 minutes) by Jenny Alexander will
explore the lives and challenges faced by undocumented workers in Boston.
(In Spanish with English subtitles)
Saturday,May 4
2 pm
FREE
Vault Auditorium,
donations welcome
Sponsored by SEIU 254 Janitors' Union
SPECIAL Afternoon FILM SHOWING of:
"Bread and Roses":
A movie by director Ken Loach about the struggle of janitors to gain dignity
and respect. Based on the inspirational real-life story of Los Angeles
immigrant janitors who won a voice at work and better lives through SEIU's
Justice For Janitors campaign. The film received outstanding reviews at
Cannes 2000 and won Best Foreign Film at the Rio de Janiero Film Festival.
Showing at The Vault Auditorium, Emerson College, 216 Tremont Street,
Boston, MA (near the intersection with Boylston Street, near Boylston stop,
Green line "T")
Sat, May 4
Three Showings:
4:30, 7 & 9:30 pm
* ENVIRONMENTAL FILM NIGHT
ALL BOSTON PREMIERES!
Off the Books: How Corporations Hide Their Environmental and Human Rights
Liabilities
(20 minutes)
Building from the Enron debacle, this 20 minute film depicts how
corporations are keeping "off the books", and off the public record, the
harm they do to public health, environment and human rights. It highlights
efforts of activists, investors and organizations seeking to hold
corporations accountable.
The film was produced and edited by Sanford Lewis, a Waltham-based
environmental attorney who has worked on issues of environmental and
corporate accountability for 20 years. He produced this film to bring
attention to the complacency of the Securities and Exchange Commission,
despite widespread corporate concealment of social and environmental issues
from investors.
Discussion with the filmmaker will follow each of the showings.
"An Evergreen Island"
(45 minutes)
Newly released Australian film about land owners living around the world's
largest copper mine who fought to close it and end the destruction of
Bougainville Island off Of Papua New Guinea. Don't miss this inspirational
story of communities working together to survive and preserve their
environment. By Mandy King and Fabio Cavadini of New Zealand.
"NAKED IN THE JUNGLE"
(24 minutes)
Australian film about Rio Tinto, the world's largest mining company
union-busting tactics, their world wide destruction of the environment and
the people's fight back.
Sunday, May 5
7-9:45 pm
Sponsored by GALLAN (Gay and Lesbian Labor Activist Network)
*GENDER ISSUES AT WORK FILM NIGHT:
"OUT AT WORK" "Lesbians and Gay Men on the Job"
(54 minutes)
by Kelly Anderson and Tami Gold. A film challenging labor unions to join
forces with the Gay Rights Movement and to advance workplace rights for all.
"LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE"
San Fransisco International Film Festival: Won a Golden Spire Award and the
Best Documentary Feature. "...engaging, fresh, provocative, moving,
innovative, entertaining and thoughtful. ...it is deeply political, highly
personal, gives us a new way of looking at women working in the sex
industry, and presents a psychologically complex profile of the
filmmaker/artist. And the icing on the cake-it's often hilariously
funny." -SF Film Festival Jury
