Dream Factory (North American Premiere)
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 7 PM
Tribeca Cinemas
(54 Varick Street, NYC)
2011, 80 minutes
Series 6: Music Films
This is it! The final free Korean movies of 2011! The Korean Cultural Service has made it their mission to bring the best new and unseen Korean films to New York audiences for the past two years, and they’re going out on a high note. Literally. The last two movies before the madness and chaos of December begins: music movies.
DREAM FACTORY
One part Occupy Wall Street outrage, one part rock film, this documentary focuses on the labor battles between Cort Guitars, one of the largest guitar manufacturers in the world, and their workers. Contrasting the down-to-earth, blue collar workers who make the guitars and the upper class rockers who play them, this flick follows the protest movement that grew among Cort workers after they tried to unionize in 2007. Management’s response was to shut down the plant where they worked. One worker set himself on fire to protest, while the others started a hunger strike. Groups of workers went around the world asking the musicians who play the guitars they made to support their cause and everyone from Rage Against the Machine to Gene Simmons (who comes across REALLY poorly) get involved. Truly moving, and capturing on film some of the violent tactics Cort’s owners employed to break up the strike, it’s a documentary that speaks loudly in these restless times to the value of working with your hands to make a better life for your kids.
Tribeca Cinemas:
54 Varick Street, on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E and 1 train Canal Street stops.
Price? Free. All seating is first-come, first serve basis. Doors open at 6:30 pm.