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Women Metalworkers (1978)

Women Metalworkers (1978)

Documentary
Release Date: 1978, June 6
Directors: Renato Tapajós, Olga Futemma
Countries: Brazil
Production: Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos de São Bernardo do Campo e Diadema, Raiz Produções Cinematográficas, Raiz Produções Cinematográficas, Oca Cinematográfica, Oca Cinematográfica, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo
Cast: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Overview:

In the late seventies, a group of Brazilian documentary filmmakers traveled to the ABC region in the suburbs of São Paulo with the purpose of recording a wave of worker strikes taking place in response to the negligence of the increasingly powerful and abusive automotive industry. Documenting striking women metal workers, Olga Futemma and Renato Tapajós’ Trabalhadoras Metalúrgicas is a particularly vigorous work among the films produced during this moment in São Paulo worker history. Scenes filmed during the first Congress of Metallurgical Women of São Bernardo and Diadema in 1978 are intercut with images documenting the appalling working conditions against which the women featured in the congress were striking.