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Subject DC LaborFest PLUS: Blood Fruit
Date June 30, 2020 1:35 PM
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BLOOD FRUIT; with director Sinéad O'Brien and striker Mary Manning!

The Killing Floor

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Tuesday, June 30: BLOOD FRUIT
7p EDT; Free via Zoom; [link removed] RSVP here
Introduced by director Sinéad O'Brien and striker Mary Manning
Guest hosts: Amanda Jaret & Jessica Rutter
NOTE: this film is not available on streaming or DVD so don't miss this opportunity to see it!

In 1984, a strike over the sale of South African fruit in Ireland became the focus of world attention as a key battleground in the fight against apartheid.
That year, Mary Manning, a 21-year-old Dunnes Stores checkout girl, refused to sell two South African grapefruits under direction from her union in support of the anti-apartheid struggle. She and ten other supporters were suspended and a strike ensued. The eleven knew little about apartheid and assumed they'd be back to work before long, but the arrival on the picket line of activist Nimrod Sejake changed everything, setting the strikers on a an unexpected path. His influence on the strikers and their struggle to bring about change proved to be the central turning point in their motivation for not only continuing the strike but advancing it to the international stage.
Today, nearly 40 years later, this story resonates as we've watched protests over the killing of George Floyd in front of a Minneapolis convenience shop spread across the country, around the world and right to the doorstep of the White House.

DIR/PROD Sinéad O'Brien. Ireland, 2014, color, 80 min. In English. Not Rated

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Available now: The Killing Floor
[link removed] $10 (3-day rental period)
Presented by the AFI SILVER THEATRE; a portion of the proceeds supports AFI Silver Theatre, longtime DC LaborFest partner.

In his first feature, director Bill Duke (The Rage in Harlem, Deep Cover) traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the Chicago's giant slaughterhouses, and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. Winner of the Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival, 1985. Starring Damien Leake (Serpico, Apocalypse Now), Alfre Woodard (Crooklyn, Down in the Delta). Screenplay by African American playwright Leslie Lee.

New 4K restoration. Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive, laboratory services and DCP by UCLA Film & Television Archive Digital Media Lab. Special thanks to Elsa Rassbach, Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA Film & Television Archive.

DIRECTED BY BILL DUKE
UNITED STATES | 1985 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Opening Date: Available to stream starting Friday, June 19

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