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"A darkly comic and timely look at the gig economy and the failed utopian promises of big tech"; "A smart, class-conscious sci-fi parable." The [link removed] 2021 DC Labor Filmfest Spring Screening Series continues tomorrow night with [link removed] LAPSIS (Weds, April 7) and wraps up the following week with [link removed] MARTIN EDEN (4/14), which will include a Q&A with director/novelist John Sayles!
The series is presented by the DC Labor FilmFest and AFI Silver Theatre, with the financial support of [link removed] American Income Life, National Nurses United and IFPTE. Support MWC's [link removed] Community Services Agency ($2 from each ticket goes to CSA) and stay tuned for the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest's full May schedule!

PLUS: On the latest [link removed] Labor Goes to the Movies podcast: The buddhist forklift driver, the searching mother and the UN translator
Elise and Chris discuss My Darling Supermarket, Identifying Features, Quo Vadis, Aida and Collective with retired SEIU staffer (and now buddhist monk) Peter Pocock and Empathy Media Labs' Evan Matthew Papp. Everyday lives, the human face of migration, and a different point of view from women directors.

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LAPSIS
Wed, April 7; 7:00 p.m. ET
[link removed] CLICK HERE for tickets: $12; $2 from each ticket purchased goes to MWC's [link removed] Community Services Agency
Event support provided by [link removed] American Income Life.
Post-screening Q&A moderated by labor journalist Sarah Jaffe (author of [link removed] Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone), with Katie Parker, Administrative Organizer for NPEU, the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union and EPI Policy Analyst Margaret Poydock

New York, an alternate present: the quantum computing revolution has begun and investors are lining their pockets in the quantum trading market. Building the network, though, requires miles of infrastructure to be laid between huge magnetic cubes by "cablers" -- unprotected gig workers who compete against robots to pull wires over rough terrain. Queens delivery man Ray Tincelli is skeptical of new technology, and the buy-in to start cabling is steep, but he struggles to support himself and his ailing younger brother, who suffers from a mysterious illness. So when Ray scores a shady permit, he believes their fortunes may have finally changed. What he doesn't expect is to be pulled into a conspiracy involving hostile cablers, corporate greed and the mysterious "Lapsis" who may have previously owned his permit. Called "a smart, class-conscious sci-fi parable" by The Hollywood Reporter, LAPSIS is a darkly comic and timely look at the gig economy and the failed utopian promises of big tech. Winner, Jury's Choice Award, 2020 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival; Nominee, Best First Screenplay, 2021 Independent Spirit Awards. Official Selection, 2020 SXSW, Mill Valley Film Festival, Trieste Science+Fiction Festival and Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Presented by AFI Silver Theatre and the DC Labor FilmFest
Co-sponsored by NPEU, EPI, Busboys & Poets, with the financial support of [link removed] American Income Life, National Nurses United and IFPTE

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MARTIN EDEN
Wed, April 14, 7:00 p.m. ET
[link removed] CLICK HERE for tickets: $12; $2 from each ticket purchased goes to MWC's [link removed] Community Services Agency
Event support provided by [link removed] American Income Life.
Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker and novelist John Sayles.

Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy's history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman. Winner of the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Presented by AFI Silver Theatre and the DC Labor FilmFest
Co-sponsored by NewsGuild Local 32035; Busboys & Poets, with the financial support of [link removed] American Income Life, National Nurses United and IFPTE

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Labor FilmFest viewers might also like these films in the AFI Silver's online screening room...

[link removed] MY DARLING SUPERMARKET
A charming and witty portrait of a grocery store in São Paulo, MY DARLING SUPERMARKET follows the day-to-day lives of its employees -- a panoply of workers steeped in the confining space of the store.

[link removed] CITY HALL (2020)
City government touches almost every aspect of our lives. Most of us are unaware of or take for granted these necessary services such as police, fire, sanitation, veterans affairs, elder support, parks, licensing of various professional activities, recordkeeping of birth, marriage and death as well as hundreds of other activities that support Boston residents and visitors. CITY HALL, the latest film from master documentarian Frederick Wiseman, shows the efforts by Boston city government to provide these services.

[link removed] 76 DAYS
On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the crisis in four hospitals, 76 DAYS tells indelible human stories at the center of this pandemic, from a woman begging in vain to bid a final farewell to her father and a grandpa with dementia searching for his way home, to a couple anxious to meet their newborn and a nurse determined to return personal items to families of the deceased.

[link removed] FUKUSHIMA 50
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and a tsunami in 2011.

[link removed] THE FEVER (2019) [A FEBRE]
Forty-five-year-old Justino is a Desana Tribe native working as a security guard in a freight yard on the harbor in the industrial city of Manaus, surrounded by the Amazon rainforest. He lives on the outskirts of town in a modest house with his youngest daughter, Vanessa, who works a nurse in a local clinic. When she is accepted into a program to study medicine in Brasília, Justino is suddenly overcome with a mysterious fever that won't subside. It causes him to fall asleep on the job and gives him hallucinations of an unidentifiable creature following him in the night.

[link removed] COLLECTIVE
After an explosive fire claims the lives of 27 people at Bucharest nightclub Colectiv, officials reassure the public that surviving victims will receive care in facilities that are "better than in Germany." Weeks later, a rising causality count leads intrepid reporters at the Sports Gazette to investigate.

Reel Work labor film festival

We're also proud to recommend our sister labor film festival, [link removed] Reel Work, which launched April 1. Though based in California, their films are available online, along with weekly online discussions.

[link removed] 2021 Reel Work selections include WOMEN OF STEEL, ANCHOR POINT, IN SEARCH OF PROFESSOR PRECARIOUS, SWEAT and much more! Watch new films and join discussions with filmmakers. PLUS: [link removed] Classic Labor Films on Community TV and Online

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