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Final Offer
19851 h 18 min 36 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Sturla GunnarssonRobert Collison
Production: Sturla GunnarssonRobert CollisonJohn KramerJohn Spotton
Script: Robert Collison
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Because the filmmakers were given unparalleled freedom to record the historic 1984 contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corporation, Final Offer provides a vividly accurate portrait of a high-level labour negotiation. This film is an invaluable document for anyone interested in the complexities of United States-Canada relations. Because of tensions that developed between the American and Canadian sectors of the UAW during the contract talks, the film concludes with Bob White, the charismatic head of the Canadians, leading his membership out of the international union. Final Offer is an extraordinary film about revolutionary events.
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Subject categories
- Transportation > Car IndustriesWork and Labour Relations
- Work and Labour Relations > Labour RelationsPortraitsUnionization and the Labour Movement
- Social Studies > Labour Studies
- History and Citizenship Education > Official Powers and Countervailing Powers (1608-present)
Credits
- director
- Sturla Gunnarsson
- writer
- Robert Collison
- co-director
- Robert Collison
- film editor
- Jeff Warren
- photography
- Len Gilday
- sound
- Brian Avery
- Ian Hendry
- original music
- Jack Lenz
- narration
- Henry Ramer
- assistant film editor
- Susan Shipton
- assistant camera
- Joel Guthroe
- additional cinematography
- Rodney Charters
- additional location sound
- Wolf Ruck
- re-recording
- Terry Cooke
- production assistant
- Renée Glück
- unit administrator
- Julia Sereny
- Sonya Munro
- producer
- Sturla Gunnarsson
- Robert Collison
- senior producer
- John Kramer
- executive producer
- John Spotton
Awards
- Rockie Award for Best Political and Social DocumentaryWorld Media Festival
- Grand Prize of the Festival (Tied with Marcel Blunal's Music Hall)World Media Festival
- Genie Award for Best Feature Length DocumentaryGenie Awards
- Special Jury AwardGolden Gate Awards Competition & International Film Festival
- Gold Plaque - Category: Social / Political DocumentaryInternational Film Festival
- Chris Award - Category: Films on Industry and Commerce International Film and Video Festival
- Italia Award for Best DocumentaryPrix Italia / Concours international de productions radiophoniques et télévisuelles