NO TIME TO WASTE - THE URGENT MISSION OF BETTY REID SOSKIN

“What gets remembered is determined by who’s in the room doing the remembering.” That’s the star of our next film, Betty Reid Soskin, the 97-year-old park ranger whose fascinating life pathway is explored in No Time To Waste, from the experiences of a young worker in a WWII segregated union hall, through her multi-faceted career as a singer, activist, mother, legislative representative and park planner to her present public role.
With Election Day just around the corner, it’s timely to remember that Betty also said “Democracy will never be fixed. It is a process. It must be regenerated by every single generation.”
THIS JUST IN: I’m really pleased that director Carl Bidleman has just been confirmed to introduce the film!

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The series is organized and sponsored by the DC LaborFest/DC Labor FilmFest, and co-sponsored by American University’s Center for Media & Social Impact, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Labor Heritage Foundation, Rochester Labor Film Series, Women Make Movies’ OWOV (One Woman One Vote) Festival*

As with our previous series earlier this year, all our screenings are online and free. Thanks as always to festival sponsorAmerican Income Life for their generous support.

See you at the movies!

- Chris Garlock, Director, DC LaborFest

Tuesday, October 20
NO TIME TO WASTE - THE URGENT MISSION OF BETTY REID SOSKIN
7p, FREE via Zoom; RSVP here
2020; 50m; documentary

Celebrates legendary national park ranger Betty Reid Soskin who, at age 98, still actively presents her unique perspective on American history to visitors at Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park.

Tuesday, October 27
ATLANTICS
7p, FREE via Zoom; RSVP here
2019; 92m; drama
Second screening just added! 1p EDT: screening by the London Labour FilmFest, includes book launch of ‘The Cinema of the Precariat’ with special guest author Tom Zaniello. RSVP here

After a group of unpaid construction workers disappears at sea one night in search of a better life abroad, the women they have left behind in Dakar are overwhelmed with a mysterious fever. Ada, 17, secretly grieves for her love Souleiman, one of the departed workers, but she has been promised to another man. After a fire breaks out on her wedding night, a young policeman is sent to investigate the crime. Little does he know that the aggrieved workers have come back as haunting, possessive spirits. While many of them seek vengeance for their unpaid labor, Souleiman has come back for a different purpose - to be with his Ada one last time.

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