| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, March 6, 2015 | 7:00PM - 9:30PM | The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place |
Hellenic Studies Program
Director Nikos Ventouras and Producer Lamprini Thoma will be in attendance.
Iota Films announces the second US screening tour of “Palikari – Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre”, a 90-minute documentary that deals with labor relations in early 20th-century America, as told through the story of Greek immigrant and trade union activist Louis Tikas.
Director Nikos Ventouras and producer Lamprini Thoma will be in North America touring with the film in March 2015 and offering insight into its filming, their motivation to make the documentary and additional insight into the history of the Ludlow Massacre and Tikas’ role and legacy.
Screening events are being planned at universities throughout the nation where immigrant studies, labor studies and US history is taught.
Acclaimed historian Howard Zinn called the “culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history”.
It took more than a decade for Ventouras and Thoma to chart the story of the great 1913-1914 coalminers’ strike and Louis Tikas’s murder, as it survives in oral and family traditions, as well as in official history. They interviewed historians and artists, some of them direct descendants of the striking miners. Labor movement emblem Mother Jones and industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. also make cameo appearances in this palimpsest of memory, struggle and deliverance.
Tikas’ murder and the Ludlow Massacre led to a United States Congressional Order for Inquiry in 1915, which eventually led to the adoption of labor protection laws, changing the history of the United States forever and how immigrant and other laborers were handled by their employers. Tikas’ story can but reverberate in our time, in view of what is happening with the rights of workers and immigrants around the world.
The documentary had its world premiere on March 16, 2014 as an Official Selection at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival to critical acclaim, since then it has screened globally— including in Cork, Ireland, at the Spirit of Mother Jones Film Festival and throughout the United States.
View a trailer of the film at: http://www.palikari.org
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