FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION

Please join us for a screening of “Stand!” followed by a discussion with director Robert Adetuyi and composer/producer Danny Schur.

This is an in-person event only.

OPENING REMARKS

Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Robert Adetuyi, Director

Danny Schur, Producer/Composer

ABOUT THE FILM

Set in 1919, Stefan and his father, Mike, have left their family and Ukraine for the New World, where they struggle to earn enough to reunite with loved ones. Stefan is instantly smitten with his Jewish suffragette neighbor, Rebecca. But Rebecca’s brother, Moishe, and Mike oppose the would-be Romeo and Juliet. Returning soldiers, angry at the lack of jobs after the war, violently threaten the city’s immigrants, including Emma, the refugee who fled the Jim Crow era in Oklahoma. When a movement develops for all workers to leave their jobs in protest, AJ Anderson, a wealthy lawyer, pits all parties against each other in a dramatic and inspirational final stand.

To view the trailer, please click here.