In The Seats With...Elsa Rassbach and 'The Killing Floor'

History is important... On this episode we talk with writer/producer Elsa Rassbach about her 1984 film 'The Killing Floor' which has just been remastered and released on Blu-Ray after a virtual cinema run earlier this year. 'The Killing Floor' is the first feature film from director Bill Duke and it explores the little known true story of an African American migrant, Frank Custer (Damien Leake) in his struggle to build an interracial union in the Chicago Stockyards a little over 100 years ago. The film traces ethnic and class conflicts that are seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses when management efforts to divide the workforce and fuel racial tensions that erupt in the Chicago Race Riots of 1919. It's a piece of history, not just in the period that it depicts but in the journey it had, initially being made for public broadcasting and then getting a festival run which was unheard of back in the day. When we talked with Elsa we talked about the struggles making the film, it's cultural relevance today and so very much more...