2021 NEW VIRTUAL EQUITY AWARDS - NEW's Equity Leadership Awards Luncheon celebrates the women building New York City. For more than 40 years, NEW has trained and placed women in the skilled construction trades and related fields, helping them secure sustainable wages for themselves and their families. The women who enter the doors of NEW are changed; they walk out confident and ready to begin their journey in a new career. The NEW Equity Leadership Awards Luncheon recognizes the hard work and dedication of NEW students and graduates as well as those who support them. (52 min, 2021, Produced by Nontraditional Employment for Women)
APPRENTICE ELECTRICIANS CITIZEN FILMS SHOWCASE (IBEW LOCAL 3) - For the 5th year, apprentice electricians from SUNY Empire State’s Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies are empowered to share a snapshot of their working lives by creating their own short 5-6 min films. Using only a smartphone, they are taught how to shoot and edit video in order to depict a personal truth that might otherwise be framed incorrectly in the mainstream media, where stories about workers and their unions are often distorted and not truthful. Our goal is to create 100,000 Citizen Journalists from the labor union side to help balance the stories about workers and their unions. (2020-2021, approx. 1 hr)
Featuring short films from:
Joanna Kokosis, Nikita Stewart, Tyler Novielli, Adonis George, Joyce P. Smith, Donna Stewart, Shakeema Scott, Abel Alvarez, and Bradley Narain.