Who Needs Sleep?
by Haskell Wexler
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Director: Haskell WexlerProducer: Tamara M. Maloney
DVD: Region Code 0
Format: NTSC
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Studio: CustomFlix
Movie Reviews of Who Needs Sleep?
Movie Review: American worker? Watch this
Summary: 5 Stars
This video is almost unheard of in mainstream media. Despite the crucial subject matter, this video hasn't been made widely available by the very studio system that it is critical of.
While Academy Award winning, Haskell Wexler exposes the cost in lives and lifestyles that the film and television industry takes on it's front line working crews, this important film points out a much broader problem affecting the American worker in general.
Europeans value time with family, time to travel and time to recover from illness. Americans have forgone those necessities and have been pushed by corporations into a paradigm of taking the most pride from unmatched productivity, for the gain of the company.
The title, "Who needs sleep" exemplifies Americas drive to "be the best", to be the most productive, and to outwork the competition. At a huge cost.
The film industry as a whole functions and maximizes profits by demanding a 13-14 hour work day and a 5-6 day production week. So, while crews are paid "overtime", they trade for it with their health, their families and their lives.
14 hours working leaves 10 hours a day to drive to and from work, eat, sleep, shower and shave. Oh, and fit in help with your kid's homework.
Know an Attorney, Doctor or Politician that wants to be succeed? He's putting in 60-70 hours a week, too. At minimum!
Know somebody supporting a family on minimum wage? They're working two, three or four jobs, totaling 60-80 hours a week just to scrape by on our shameful bottom wage scale.
The situation is endemic in America. We pay for "better" lives by trading in the things that make our lives best.
Who Needs Sleep?
We all do.
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Summary of Who Needs Sleep?
Produced by The Institute for Cinema StudiesWritten and Directed by Haskell Wexler
Producer: Tamara M. Maloney
Producer's Associate: Kinga Dobos
Editors: Lisa Leeman, Tamara Maloney
Music: Greg Landau
Ahhh... the glamorous life in Hollywood. Or is it? Film crews routinely work sweatshop hours, often clocking 15 to 18 hour days at the expense of their families, their health, their well-being, and even their lives.
In 1997, after a 19-hour day on the set, assistant cameraman Brent Hershman fell asleep behind the wheel, crashed his car, and died. Deeply disturbed by Hershman's preventable death, filmmaker and multiple-Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler shows how sleep deprivation and long work hours are a lethal combination. WHO NEEDS SLEEP? is a commentary on our quality of life.
With ENGLISH and SPANISH SUBTITLES.
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