Greetings! Never posted before, but wanted to share the lovely review we just received for "The Red Tail" in Video Librarian (Three Stars!). Would love to see this film used by schools across the United States and around the world! Filmmakers also available for screenings. In fact, Melissa Koch is currently getting her MFA at UC Santa Cruz, so she¹s pretty close to some of y¹all. :-)
Peace, Dawn Mikkelson Director/Executive Producer The Red Tail www.redtailmovie.com FULL REVIEW THREE STARS http://www.redtailmovie.com/page2/Video%20Librarian/VideoLibrarian.html At first portending to be a heartfelt home movie, The Red Tail gradually develops into a sneakily insightful study of the insidiously far-reaching effects of globalization on unionized labor around the world. Co-directed by Dawn Mikkelson and Melissa Koch, the film focuses and Koch¹s father, Roy a mechanic with Northwest Airlines, a company planning to lay off much of its Twin Cities maintenance workforce in favor of a less expensive alternative in Hong Kong. The documentary initially follows Roy as he leads a strike against the firm he¹s worked for since the early 1980s, but its most important revelations occur when the laid-off Roy and Melissa visit Hong Kong to find out who¹s actually doing his old job. During a seemingly routine interview with a Northwest exec, they learn that the outsourcing thread is stretching beyond Hong Kong to the cheap-labor capital of the world: mainland China. And in a disturbing development, statistics are beginning to show a frightening trend Northwest planes suddenly are making 18 emergency landings a year, whereas the average used to be less than one. The Red Tail leaves viewers with a menacingly real sense of the future under globalization: CEOs outsourcing an increasing number of jobs to ensure generous salaries for themselves and skyrocketing dividends for stockholders all while the middle class recedes into service-industry peasantry. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (M. Sandlin) DVD¹S OF THE RED TAIL AVAILABLE HERE http://www.redtailmovie.com/page24/store.html
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