2021 DC Labor FilmFest line-up released!
Organized and presented by the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO and the AFI Silver, the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest features a wide-ranging selection of films about work, workers and the wider issues affecting workers' lives. This year, for its 20th edition, the festival goes virtual, presenting a lineup of outstanding work-related cinema online for audiences in the Washington, DC, area and beyond.
All tickets are just $5, unless otherwise noted. CLICK HERE for details.
Films will be released to the AFI's Virtual Screening Room each week, where they'll be available to watch until June 6.
And don't miss the LABOR GOES TO THE MOVIES podcast Movie Club discussions Thursdays at 7p! Join podcast hosts Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant -- and special surprise guests -- for a freewheeling discussion of the films in this year's DC Labor FilmFest! Click here to RSVP.
NOTE: Most titles in the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest are available to view throughout the U.S. and U.S. territories, from the date the title debuts until the festival ends June 6. One exception: THE LUNCHROOM is available ONLY to viewers in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC.
Presented by the DC Labor FilmFest and AFI Silver Theatre, with the financial support of American Income Life, National Nurses United and IFPTE.
WORK SONGSAvailable April 30–June 6 – Tickets $12Watch anytime starting 4/30 and join us In the LABOR GOES TO THE MOVIES podcast Movie Club discussions Thursdays at 7p! Click here to RSVP."What's the weirdest thing that ever happened at your job?" Inspired by the writing of the great Studs Terkel, filmmaker Mark Street interviews cab drivers, longshorewomen, a farmer, a barista and others, from California to New York. What emerges is a kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States at work and of workers' concerns about automation, the gig economy and the decline of unions. (Note adapted from Argot Pictures.) Official Selection, 2020 Beloit International Film Festival. DIR/SCR/PROD Mark Street. U.S., 2019, color, 68 min. NOT RATED
The 2021 Global Labor Film Festival presents
HAYMARKET: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle
Saturday, May 1 * 8pm ET (2p Alberta, 11p Haifa)
Discussion with director Adrian Prawica and labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steven Brier (CUNY School of Labor).
Click here to register for the discussion and click here for free registration for the film; you’ll be able to watch the film at your convenience (available beginning at 12 noon Weds April 28).
Presented by the DC Labor FilmFest, Workers Unite! Film Fest, the Rochester Labor Film Series, the Bread and Roses Heritage Committee, and the Haifa International Labor Film Festival, as part of the 2021 Global Labor Film Festival.
The Chicago Haymarket Affair in 1886, where a bomb thrown into the ranks of police, was followed by an eruption of panic and violence resulting in a trial and execution of presumably innocent workers' rights activists. In this feature documentary, expert historians and professors present the history of the bomb, the anarchist movement of the 19th century, and the labor struggle of working people fighting for a shorter workday during the industrial might of America's Gilded Age.
PLUS: West Coast screening/discussion by the Reel Work Labor Film Festival!
Labor Studies Professor Dana Frank will moderate a conversation with filmmaker Adrian Prawica and audience Q&A on the significance of May Day to the labor movement (screening starts at 6:30pm PDT on May 1; discussion at 8p PDT). RSVP here: bit.ly/RWMayDay
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