Join us this Thursday, May 5th to commemorate International Workers Day (May 1st) with a 16mm presentation of the landmark 1976 labour rights documentary, Union Maids, a collaborative film project recording the stories and recollections of three women involved in the struggle for worker’s rights and the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, a multi-racial labour union in 1930’s America.
This significant historical work will be preceded by the rarely seen NFB short, The Working Class on Film (1975), which offers a glimpse of more than forty years of social-minded documentary from both the UK’s GPO Film Unit and The National Film Board of Canada.
Presented in collaboration with the FRAMES Film Series.
