Shutdown

Canada, 1980

Please note

Sorry, we don't have images or video for this item.

Documents the closing-down of an American-owned branch plant with all the personal trauma that such a decision causes to the workers. The employees discuss the dilemma of working in an economy dominated by foreign ownership and the lack of government action to protect jobs in American-owned branch plants.

Credits

director

Laura Sky

co-producer

David Springbett

Don Hopkins

production company

National Film Board of Canada

Language

English

Duration

00:28:00:00

Colour

Please note: this archive is an ongoing body of work. Sometimes the credit information (director, year etc) isn’t available so these fields may be left blank; we are progressively filling these in with further research.

Cite this work on Wikipedia

If you would like to cite this item, please use the following template: {{cite web |url=https://acmi.net.au/works/76337--shutdown/ |title=Shutdown |author=Australian Centre for the Moving Image |access-date=11 April 2021 |publisher=Australian Centre for the Moving Image}}