Michal Goldman, founder of Filmmakers' Cooperative and also founder of the Boston Jewish Film Festival will introduce her documentary and lead  discussion after the screening.

Michal Goldman

Her work has won the Academy Award and the Golden Plaque: Documentary – History/Biography (Chicago Film Festival). She was the recipient of the first Promoting Tolerance Award from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. She is founder and President Emerita of Filmmakers Collaborative, and founder of the Boston Jewish Film Festival.

At Home in Utopia documents the lives of immigrant Jewish garment workers who catapulted themselves out of the urban slums and ghettos by pooling their resources and building cooperatively owned and run apartment houses in the Bronx.  They first constructed the United Workers Cooperative Colony, a.k.a. "the Coops," where residents experimented with breaking down the barriers of race and ethnicity and championed radical ideals that would someday transform the American workplace.  At Home in Utopia captures their epic struggle across two generations as they tried to build an equitable and just society.