Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000)
75 min
Documentary look at the 1996-97 effort of the dancers and support staff at a San Francisco peep show, The Lusty Lady, to unionize. Angered by arbitrary and race-based wage policies, customers' surreptitious video cameras, and no paid sick days or holidays, the dancers get help from the Service Employees International local and enter protracted bargaining with the union-busting law firm that management hires. We see the women work, sort out their demands, and go through the difficulties of bargaining. The narrator is Julia Query, a dancer and stand-up comedian who is reluctant to tell her mother, a physician who works with prostitutes, that she strips.
- Release date
- October 6, 2000
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Allison Hennessy
- Box office
- $48,752
Cast
- Julia Query as Self - Stripper
- Jane as Self - Stripper
- Siobhan Brooks as Self - Stripper
- Kristina as Self - Stripper
- Ellen as Self - Stripper
- Darrell as Self - General Manager, Lusty Lady
- Scott as Self - Support Staff
- Star as Self - Stripper
- Joyce Wallace as Self - Julia's Mother
- Stephanie Batey as Self - SEIU Negotiator
Crew
- Vicky Funari · Director
- Julia Query · Director
- Vicky Funari · Writer
- Julia Query · Writer
- John Montoya · Producer
- Julia Query · Producer
- Allison Hennessy · Composer
- Vicky Funari · Cinematographer
- Sarah Kennedy · Cinematographer
- John Montoya · Cinematographer
- Julia Query · Cinematographer
- Vicky Funari · Editor
- Heidi Rahlmann Plumb · Editor