Coming to NYC’s Stranger Than Fiction series tomorrow, Tuesday, February 3: THE HAND THAT FEEDS
Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick’s look at grassroots labor organizing made its debut at Full Frame last year, where it picked up the audience award. An audience award also followed its screening at DOC NYC, while other festival berths have included Traverse City, AFI Docs, Woodstock, Sidewalk, and SF Latino, among others.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
An Upper East Side Hot & Crusty bakery serves as the unlikely setting for an old-fashioned David vs Goliath story in Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick’s rousing film. After years of exploitation, Mahoma López, an unassuming sandwich maker, leads his fellow service workers as they demand better working conditions and wages. Risking their livelihood – and, for some, deportation – they take to the streets to plead their case to their regular customers, partnering with impassioned young Occupy activists in a hard-fought battle to prove the power of labor organizing.
what (not) to doc 