Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. For tickets and more information, please call 92. Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. “Radium Girls” will be shown at the Mary D. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Award and is a recipient of the ReFrame Gender Balanced Production Award. “Radium Girls” premiered at the TriBeca Film Festival where it received the Alfred P. She discovers a corporate cover-up and - in a radical coming-of-age story - Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on American Radium.īased on historical events, the national sensation following the notorious case of the Radium Girls in 1928 ultimately led to significant and lasting impact in the area of workplace health and safety and the study of radioactivity. When Jo loses a tooth, Bessie’s world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels. Fisher Theatre.īased on true events, “Radium Girls” follows teen sisters, Bessie and Jo Cavallo, who dream of Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey.
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And yet, as narrative text at the end of the movie reminds us, radium paint continued to be used well into the 1960s, putting countless lives at risk.The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the acclaimed true story “Radium Girls” showing Nov. Screening in competition as a finalist at Indys Heartland International Film Festival, Radium.
The case forced a reckoning within American industry, as workers realized they could sue their employers for unsafe working conditions, forcing the latter to better regulate potential dangers. in Orange, NJ, in 1917, and at first reveled in her job. Gregory that debuted at the Playwrights Theatre of NJ in Madison 20 years ago. The 19-year-old woman started working at the Radium Luminous Materials Corp. A movie titled 'Radium Girls' was released last year, and there was a play written about them by D.W. Still, the women prevailed, and a jury awarded damages of $10,000 to each (roughly worth $150,000 in 2020), along with a $600 (about $9,000 now) a year payment for medical expenses. Amelia Mollie Maggia was the first to die.
Indeed, by 1928, when the suit finally went to court, two were confined to their beds. Based on true events, RADIUM GIRLS follows sisters Bessie (Joey King) and Jo (Abby Quinn) as they paint glow-in-the-dark watch dials at the American. The reason? They knew many of the women wouldn’t live out the decade. Radium,’ and we changed the name slightly.The whole story is a true story and the court case that the girls ultimately mounted against the company is a notorious case that is still used today in arguing cases of toxic chemical litigation. For several years, the “radium girls,” as they were dubbed in the press, battled a company determined to let the proceedings drag on for as long as possible. Interview Highlights: The true story behind the American Radium factory court case: The real company was ‘U.S. In the 1920s, a group of five women led by plant worker Grace Fryer decided to sue American Radium. There were three main factories in the United States dedicated to this work, but the most famous is the one in Orange, NJ, where Radium Girls is set. The movie, set in New Jersey in the late ’20s, follows two teenage sisters (portrayed by Joey King and Abby Quinn) employed at a nearby American Radium plant. Radium dial painting started gaining traction around 1917 in the United States, to provide watches that soldiers heading off to the trenches of Europe could read in the dark. Though Bessie and Jo are based on composites of real people, the story itself is rooted in truth. Based on true events, sisters Bessie and Jo Cavallo paint dial watches at the American Radium factory in New Jersey.
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