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Rocking The Foundations

Year of completion: 1985
Content type: Documentary
Format: Feature
Genre: History
Duration: 92 minutes
Production Status: Completed

Rocking the Foundations is a passionate documentary about the controversial New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation (BLF). Filmmaker Pat Fiske, herself one of the first women members of the BLF, develops a portrait of this once-powerful union through interviews with former union members and officials, archival film, and television news coverage of some of its actions.

Completion Year: 1985
Genres: History
Format: Feature
Production Status: Completed

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Cast

Jack Mundey, Joe Owens, Janne Reed, Bob Pringle, Nita McCrae, Mick Fowler

Awards

1986 — Greater Union Awards for Australian Short Films

1986 — Australian Film Institute

Screenings

1986 — Educational Film Library Association

1986 — Festival Dei Popoli

1986 — Los Angeles Int Film Exposition - Filmex

1987 — New Delhi International Film Festival

1986 — San Francisco International Film Festival

1986 — Tyneside Int Film Fest

1986 — USA Film Festival, Dallas

1986 — Edinburgh International Film Festival

1986 — Australian Film Institute

1986 — DOK Leipzig

1985 — DOK Leipzig

1986 — International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

1986 — Sundance Film Festival

1986 — Toronto International Film Festival

2017 — The Sydney Film Festival

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Rocking The Foundations

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