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.No maritime worker, indeed no worker, should miss this film. Painstakingly researched the film 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.
Her film also documents the Yarra dispute with Canadian Steamship Line (CSL) in Port Pirie 2002, when crew barracaded themselves on board the vessel for two weeks in an attempt to save their ship from being flagged out.
Betrayed will show at a union function held at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour on May 10 before a public screening alongside her Timor film Bitter Paradise, book launch and forum with the filmmaker at the Valhalla Cinema, Glebe on May 12.
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