Union Leader
Sunday, November 5, 7 pm, Chaparral Auditorium
Sunday, November 12, 7 pm, Ojai Art Center Theater
2017, Canada, Director and Producer: Sanjay Patel; 105 min.
Determined to send his son to medical school, Jay takes a job at a factory that manufactures highly toxic chemicals. When his co-workers begin dying of chromium sulfate exposure, Jay jeopardizes his job and his son’s future to organize a union. Set in India, Union Leader invokes a rich tradition of labor activism in cinema.
