Date and Time
Thu, November 2, 2023
@ 10:45 PM

Location
Regal LA Live: Theater 10

Series
Program 1b: LA Stories


In the second largest school district in the United States, 98% of teachers vote to authorize a strike. Watch as one of the largest educator strikes in modern U.S. history unfolds in real-time, highlighting the stories and leadership of some of the women who led it, from union leaders to classroom teachers. From strike vote to contract vote, WHEN WE FIGHT goes behind the picket lines, documenting how and why teachers strike.

Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 34 min
Directed by: Yael Bridge, Yoni Golijov

About the Director(s)

Yael Bridge is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She produced "Left on Purpose", winner of the Audience Award at DOC NYC. Most recently she produced "Saving Capitalism" starring former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in Business and Economics. As Director of Productions at Inequality Media, Yael has made numerous viral videos that tackled complex political issues and gained over 100 million views on social media in 2016 alone. She is currently working on a film about the resurgence of socialism in America. She holds an MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University and an MA in Media Studies from the New School. Yoni Golijov (prod.) produces non-fiction films and installations. Most recently, he produced Laura Poitras's feature, "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed", winner of the 2022 Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The film documents legendary artist and activist Nan Goldin and her fight against the Sackler family. Golijov is a Sundance Producer Fellow, an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Grantee, and an NBC Original Voices Fellow. Golijov recently produced Poitras’s first European gallery exhibition, "Circles" (2021 | n.b.k. Gallery, Berlin). Previous producing credits include Poitras’s collaborations with "Forensic Architecture: Terror Contagion" (2021 | Cannes) about the spyware Pegasus, and "Triple-Chaser" (2019 | Whitney Biennial), documenting the use of tear gas produced by a Whitney board member’s company; Poitras’s feature film "Risk" (2016 | Cannes) about WikiLeaks; and her short film "Project X" (2017 | Sundance) about a windowless building in downtown Manhattan, AT&T and the NSA. Previously he was a consulting producer at Field of Vision where he consulted across shorts, series and features including the Academy Award-nominated "In the Absence" (dir. Yi Seung-Jun, prod. Gary Byung-Seok Kam), and coordinated the Field of Vision Fellows retreat."

Film Info

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wSc6SCAow8
Release Year: 01-Oct-22
Country: United States

Cast & Credits

Contacts

Print Source: whenwefightmovie@gmail.com

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