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MAR 26, 2021 – People Before Profits: A work in progress from Pacific Street Films

FRIDAY, MAR 26, 2021 @ 7PM EST – People Before Profits: A work in progress from Pacific Street Films
Presented by South Side Projections

Q&A with Pacific Street Films founders Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler
LINK TO EVENT PAGE: http://southsideprojections.org/2021/people-before-profits/
Online at: twitch.tv/southsideprojections

Since 2007 Pacific Street Films has been filming the impact of Wall Street’s excesses, specifically as it applies to foreclosure/eviction and, by extension, homelessness. This is being done in concert with Joel Sucher’s writing for publications that include American Banker; In These Times and Huffpost. Joel Sucher has also documented and written about his personal experiences fighting three successive foreclosure attempts initiated, in turn, by Washington Mutual; Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo. Pacific Street Films founders Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler present some of the footage they’ve shot about the foreclosure crisis and talk next steps in this vital project.

Pacific Street Films is a documentary production company founded in 1969 by Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler. Together, they have produced more than 100 films, including Red Squad (1972), Frame-up! The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre (1974), Man’s Best Friends (1984), Oliver Stone: Inside/Out (1992), and Beyond Wiseguys: Italian-Americans & The Movies (2007). They are the recipients of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

How to watch: Tune in to twitch.tv/southsideprojections on March 26 at 7pm. You don’t need a Twitch account to watch the film or the discussion. If you would like to ask questions, you’ll need to sign up for a free Twitch account (you can also log in using your Facebook account). To ask questions during the discussion, simply type into Twitch’s chat window.

About South Side Projections

Founded in 2011, South Side Projections presents films at locations across Chicago’s south side to foster conversation about complex social and political issues. At many screenings, we enlist scholars, activists, and filmmakers to lead discussions, while other screenings offer opportunities to present seldom-seen films of historical and artistic value to the communities of Chicago’s south side. In all cases we are a springboard to a deeper understanding of our communities and the broader world.

From Swastika to Jim Crow: Reflecting on an important chapter in Black-Jewish relations

ZOOM WEBINAR Feb 24, 2021 – From Swastika to Jim Crow: Reflecting on an important chapter in Black-Jewish relations

ZOOM WEBINAR Feb 24, 2021 – From Swastika to Jim Crow: Reflecting on an important chapter in Black-Jewish relations

DATE & TIME: Feb 24, 2021 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

In honor of Black History Month, join Dr. Lillie Edwards, Professor Emerita of History and African-American Studies at Drew University, and Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher, co-producers of the 2000 documentary From Swastika to Jim Crow, to discuss the little-known story of German-Jewish refugees, who, expelled from their homeland by Hitler and the Nazis, found new lives and careers at historically Black colleges and universities in the American South. With antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and racist rhetoric once again on the rise, this film is as important today as it was when it was released over 20 years ago.

REGISTRATION: Webinar Registration – Zoom

Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists

Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists – Metrograph Screening

Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists 
Opens Thursday, 11/13/20 (through 11/19/20) in New Restoration
Metrograph – No.7 Ludlow Street, New York City, NY 10002

Steven Fischler and Joe Sucher’s astonishing portrait of immigrant life in the U.S. is seen through the eyes of the sweatshop workers who made up the Jewish anarchist movement. Between 1900 and World War I, they built trade unions, organized schools, sponsored lectures and discussions, as well as a wide range of cultural events. The film focuses on the last generation of these immigrant anarchists who published the Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Voice of Labor), which was, until it folded in 1977, America’s oldest continuously published Yiddish and Anarchist newspaper. The Anarchist movement had a resurgence in the activism of the 1960s and ’70s and has continued to be influential not only in the realm of arts and culture but as an essential element in international political movements like the Kurdish YPG. Certainly, in this country, Anarchist thinking has provided the backbone to both the Occupy and Antifa movements. Fischler and Sucher, of Pacific Street Films, relate this history through interviews with participants in the movement, archival photos and newsreel footage, excerpts from old motion pictures, and Yiddish songs and poems. 1980. 55 mins.

New restoration by IndieCollect, in association with Harvard Film Archive. Opening night introduced by Fischler and Sucher.

View the synopsis of Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists.

MORE DETAILS ON THE METROGRAPH WEBSITE.