The Year of the Beaver

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 77 min
  • Premiere: 1985. January 1.

The Year of the Beaver focuses on the industrial dispute at the Grunwicks photographic processing plant in Willesden, London in the summer of 1977. The workforce, predominately consisting of British Asian women, most of whom had only recently arrived in the UK, decided to go on strike over the issue of trade union recognition. The strike lasted for two years.

Discover

Anne Lamont

Narrator #1

Steve Sprung

Narrator #2

Camera

Nancy Schiesari

Camera Operator

Directing

Sylvia Stevens

Director

Steve Sprung

Director

Dave Fox

Director

Editing

Esther Ronay

Co-Editor

Sound

Carol MacGillivray

Sound Editor

Writing

Dave Fox

Writer

Camera

Nancy Schiesari

Camera Operator

Directing

Sylvia Stevens

Director

Steve Sprung

Director

Dave Fox

Director

Editing

Esther Ronay

Co-Editor

Sound

Carol MacGillivray

Sound Editor

Writing

Dave Fox

Writer