Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival

A SAMPLING OF FILMS SHOWN AT REELWORK 2008.
(Note that these films are either commercially available now or are forthcoming!)

9/11: DUST & DECEIT: This is the new 3 1/2 minute Trailer for the disturbing new film by Penny Little which is now available at http://www.911dust.org, and which was featured at the Santa Barbara International and Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festivals.



AMERICAN MASTERS Pete Seeger: The Power of Song aired February 27 on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/americanmasters



SACCO AND VANZETTI: This documentary tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. It is the first major documentary film about this landmark story. The ordeal of Sacco and Vanzetti came to symbolize the bigotry and intolerance directed at immigrants and dissenters in America, and millions of people in the U.S. and around the world protested on their behalf. Nearly eighty years later, the story continues to have great resonance, as America once again grapples with issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.




THE SINGING REVOLUTION: A moving, intensely human testament to the sustaining power of hope and the motivating strength of song, James and Maureen Tusty's The Singing Revolution documents how, between 1987 and 1992, the Estonian people peacefully attained political independence after decades of Soviet occupation.



EYE OF THE STORM (Amie Williams, 2007) depicts the 2002 contract struggle between west coast longshore workers and international shippers who ultimately locked out thousands of workers from ports on the west coast. The film offers interviews and news clips showing all sides and actions in the 2002 struggle, which lasted nine months, and gives a history of the ILWU from its birth during the bloody 1934 west coast maritime strike through today, as a grass-roots-led progressive democratic force within American labor.