Award winning filmmaker in Sydney

Date: 11 May 2005

Canadian filmmaker Elaine Briere is at the Valhalla Cinema, Glebe, tomorrow night for a screening of her two films - Betrayed on the biggest world strike of the 20th century and Bitter Paradise on East Timor, a book launch and forum with the film-maker

"Betrayed shows that globalization doesn't just happen. It is constructed and developed in a deliberate manner. This is a remarkable film that connects the dots from the destruction of progressive unionism in the fifties to the dire situation facing working people today."

Award winning Canadian film-maker ELAINE BRIERE is touring Australia this month for screenings of her latest documentary Betrayed on the biggest international maritime strike of the 20th century. Sixty per cent of world shipping was affected, with governments calling in the army, navy, airforce and, in London, MI5 to break the stike.

Ms Briere launched the tour on the Spirit of Tasmania and is now in Sydney for a screening and forum, alongside her award winning documentary on East Timor at the Valhalla on the 12th May .

Painstakingly researched Betrayed documents the merchant marine at war, the union's fight to get seafarers better conditions, the 1949 strike,

the bloody battles around the coast, as well as the solidarity action in Australian and other world ports.

No maritime worker, indeed no worker, should miss this film.

Betrayed also tackles the 'flags of convenience' practise by multinational ship owners who avoid safety and proper wages and conditions regulations by registering ships in a number of small developing nations. The film documents the Yarra dispute with Canadian Steamship Line(CSL) in Port Pirie 2002, when crew barricaded themselves on board the vessel for 21 days in an attempt to save their ship from being flagged out.

Elaine Briere's tour is sponsored by the Maritime Union of Australia and run in conjunction with the Australia East Timor Association.

ONE NIGHT ONLY

Valhalla Cinema,

Glebe Pt Rd,

Glebe

6-9pm

(Timor photo book launch 6pm, Bitter Paradise, 6.30pm, forum 7.30pm, Betrayed 8pm)

For further information

Contact:	Zoe Reynolds
Union:	Maritime Union of Australia
Phone:	0417 229873
WWW:	http://www.mua.org.au/

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