EYE   OF   THE   STORM
BAL-MAIDEN FILMS (2007) A film by Amie Williams


SYNOPSIS: EYE OF THE STORM (Amie Williams, 2007) depicts the 2002 contract struggle between west coast longshore workers and international shippers who ultimately locked out thousands of workers from ports on the west coast. The film offers interviews and news clips showing all sides and actions in the 2002 struggle, which lasted nine months, and gives a history of the ILWU from its birth during the bloody 1934 west coast maritime strike through today, as a grass-roots-led progressive democratic force within American labor.

EYE OF THE STORM
Bal-Maiden Films 2007

DIRECTOR
Amie Williams

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Jens Sturup

FILM EDITOR
Brian Risdon

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Jamie Lawrence

VOICEOVER
Danny Glover

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    1. Silence on the docks.       For ten days, shippers locked the gates on port terminals from San Diego to Bellingham, Washington, silencing a great engine of the American economy. BITMAP VERSION


    2. The key is a contract.       One of hundreds of cold, steel locks used at port terminals across America's west coast to lock workers off the job for 10 days in 2002. BITMAP VERSION


    3. Making Noise.       ILWU Local 10 Drill Team members march in 2002 during an ILWU contract rally. BITMAP VERSION


    4. Where the action is.       Nearly 70% of all cargo crossing America's docks are handled by ILWU workers at west coast ports. BITMAP VERSION


    5. San Francisco.       Eye of the Storm is the first feature motion picture commissioned by the ILWU in the union's 70-year history. BITMAP VERSION


    6. Speaking for dockworkers.       ILWU International President Jim Spinosa addresses dockworkers from around the world about the contract struggle. BITMAP VERSION


    7. Moving America's cargo, one container at a time.       A crane driver maneuvers a "twenty-foot equivalent unit" (TEU) container. Longshore workers at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles move 15 million TEUs every year. BITMAP VERSION
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