Film Description

“We don’t make anything in this country. If they shut down the ports we’d be naked and barefooted.”
Morristown is a working class response to globalization. It engages the audience in the issues of immigration, capital flight, and the organized demand for economic justice.
Filmed over an 8-year period in the mountains of east Tennessee, interior Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez, Morristown is rooted in the authentic expression of workers who speak about their lives, work, disappointments, and hope. These conversations are combined with scenes of factories, fields, union halls, Mexican stores, city parks, and employment agencies. The documentary travels to the U.S.-Mexican border (El Paso – Juarez) to create deeper understanding of factory flight out of Morristown, and to interior Mexico to look at the forces that cause migration into the area. It ends in a stunning union victory at a poultry plant.

Morristown is a human and accessible way to look at globalization. Given the potential of this film to bring workers together across ethnic barriers to find unity, we hope to reach workers’ centers, immigrant rights groups, and labor unions. We ask for your suggestions.