In the last few years, two of the most contentious debates in Wisconsin have been over a proposed iron mine in northern Wisconsin and over the future of organized labor across the state.
It’s a century-old story involving mining and labor in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that is the focal point of a documentary by Milwaukee filmmaker Suzanne Jurva called Yoopera! But there’s a twist – her film centers on an effort to produce an opera about this often-forgotten piece of history.
"I saw it as a way to tell a story about the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that I really hadn't seen per say. Yoopers have a certain stereotype, and I didn't want to do that type of film at all," producer and director Jurva says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKhUyozx9fU
Yoopera! will screen three times as part of the Milwaukee Film Festival, including Monday afternoon at 4 at the Downer Theater.
