24 Days in Brooks

Directed by Dana Inkster · Starring Clifton Joseph · 2007

Brooks, Alberta, becomes one of Canada's most diverse towns as immigrants and refugees arrive to work at its slaughterhouse, and they unite for the plant's first-ever strike.

A ground-level portrait of a prairie town remade by newcomers, told through a landmark workers' strike.

Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Pack

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