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Bread and Roses (2000 film)

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'Bread and Roses' is a 2000 film directed by Ken Loach, starring Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody and Elpidia Carrillo. The plot deals with the struggle of poorly paid janitorial workers in Los Angeles and their fight for better working conditions and the right to unionize. It is based on the "Justice for Janitors" campaign of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927184203/http://student.ccbcmd.edu/~wbarry/laborinmovies/Bread%20and%20Roses%20Foreword.doc ' Bread and Roses Foreword'], SEIU President Andrew L. Stern

The film is critical of inequalities in the United States. Health insurance in particular is highlighted and it is also stated in the film that the pay of cleaners and other low paying jobs has declined in recent years.

The film's name, "Bread and Roses", derives from the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Though the phrase comes from a 1911 poem by James Oppenheim (which was, in turn, based on a speech given by Rose Schneiderman), it is commonly associated with the Lawrence strike, which united dozens of immigrant communities, led to a large extent by women, under the leadership of the Industrial Workers of the World.

Cast



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Production





The following companies produced the film:

*British Screen

*BSkyB

*Cineart

*Filmcooperative Zrich

*Parallax Pictures

*BiM Distribution

*Alta Films

*BAC Films

*Road Movies Filmproduktion

*Tornasol Films

Awards and nominations



The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Award at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival in 2000.

In 2001, it was nominated for the Artios award of the Casting Society of America, for the British Independent Film Awards for Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, and won the Phoenix Prize at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

In 2002, it was nominated for four ALMA Awards, of which it won the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Elpidia Carrillo) and also won the for Best Theatrical Feature Film of the .

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