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Workers Unite Film Festival Free Virtual Film Festival Screenings

Women Make Movies Virtual Film Festival

American Factory: Panel Discussion and Q&A

Eight Men Out

Pride

In addition to our own screenings, the 2020 DC Labor FilmFest is proud to share upcoming screenings by both the Workers Unite and Women Make Movies film festivals, both of which feature films about work and workers. Our own series continues next Tuesday with director John Sayles introducing the classic Eight Men Out, enabling you to get your labor and baseball fixes simultaneously; see you online...at the movies!

- Chris Garlock, Director, DC LaborFest

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May 22-25: Workers Unite Film Festival Free Virtual Film Festival Screenings
Watch all the WUFF9 trailers [link removed] here. Full schedule on the [link removed] blog.
Includes:
Hope Served Fresh: Recovery Friendly Employment - A pizzeria owner in Oneonta New York decides to create a "sober and recovery friendly" workplace, starting a trend that reaches the upper levels over New York State Government. (15 min, Jessica Vecchione) (Trailer)
Gone Postal - Jay Galione, son of a postal worker, investigates the dark corners of the U.S. Postal Service. Across the country, brave employees stand up to injustice on the job and fight to Save the People's Post Office. A moving indictment of the toxic culture and push to downsize, this eye-opening documentary allows viewers to hear from experts and advocates including Ralph Nader and Richard Wolff, and directly from the selfless and courageous people hidden behind the scenes, long suffering and ignored. (1 hr 33 min, Director: Jay Galione)

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May 22-31: Women Make Movies Virtual Film Festival
The [link removed] Coalition of Labor Union Women recommends [link removed] Women Make Movies, which is extending their virtual film festival until May 31; festival attendees will have access to FREE selected films by women. Please [link removed] click here to register.
Special film titles include:
Waging Change, directed by Abby Ginzberg, shining a light on the women-led movement to end the federal tipped wage for restaurant workers. The film also features special guests such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin who support the movement.
Standing on my Sister's Shoulders, directed by Laura J. Lipson, highlighting the first black women allowed in Senate Chambers in over 100 years.
Fattitude, directed by Lindsey Averill, illustrates the cultural prejudice with regards to weight, resulting in discrimination and civil rights violiations.
Home Truth, a film directed by April Hayes & Katia Maguire, shows a mother's journey on a historical lawsuit of non-police reinforcement with restraining orders.
& many more films directed with a women's perspective

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Wednesday, May 27: American Factory: Panel Discussion and Q&A
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
The Battle of Homestead Foundation presents a Live Zoom panel discussion of the 2020 Oscar-winning Best Feature Documentary, with film directors Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, Braddock filmmaker Tony Buba, and Dr. Louis Picard, director of University of Pittsburgh's Public Administration Program.

"Having the film directors speak to us in real time is what makes this program so special," says John Haer, Battle of Homestead Foundation president. "They saw the process unfold over several years and were able to interpret that in tandem with events happening in the world outside the factory."

View the film free before joining the May 27th discussion! Click this [link removed] link to Netflixto watch it.

"America's factory and warehouse networks are in crisis, and so much of the problem lies in the how we address the basic rights not just of workers but of consumers at the other end of the supply chain," says Rosemary Trump, Battle of Homestead Foundation board member and former Pennsylvania AFL-CIO vice president. "American Factory has a lot to tell us about the stark future that millions of Americans may encounter in their workplace and their daily lives."

Note: the film American factory will NOT be shown at the Zoom event on May 27th.

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Tuesday, May 26, 7p: Eight Men Out
FREE; [link removed] register here
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
Director: John Sayles; Stars: John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, and John Sayles (as Ring Lardner) and Studs Terkel.
Introduced by director John Sayles!

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Tuesday, June 2: Pride (Special LGBT Pride Month screening!)
FREE; [link removed] register here
Back by popular demand (and with the tech issues solved)! Inspired by an extraordinary true story. It's the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families.
"The film's high spirits are genuinely infectious. And it says something that 30 years after the events it depicts, Pride should feel so unexpectedly rousing. People cooperating across ideological lines? Finding common cause with folks they don't 100 percent agree with? What a concept." - Bob Mondello, NPR

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