2021 DC Labor FilmFest: The Lunchroom opens today! “A darkly comedic film” and a “subtle, intelligent drama,” The Lunchroom opens today in the AFI Silver’s Virtual Screening Room; see below for details and a link for tickets. Already there and available to watch online now is WORK SONGS, " a kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States at work and of workers' concerns about automation, the gig economy and the decline of unions." And click here to check out last Saturday's discussion of the new film Haymarket by labor historians Joe McCartin and Steve Brier with director Adrian Prawica, me and other participants in the Labor Goes to the Movies podcast. Our next discussion is this Thursday at 7p; click here to RSVP!
THE LUNCHROOM [PLANTA PERMANENTE]
Available May 4–June 6 – Tickets $5 Watch anytime starting 5/4 and join us In the LABOR GOES TO THE MOVIES podcast Movie Club discussions Thursdays at 7p! Click here to RSVP Lila (Liliana Juárez, THE SNATCH THIEF) has been a cleaner in a provincial municipality building in Argentina for more than 30 years. She's an important figure in the office's carefully knit society because of the unofficial staff cafeteria, which she runs, together with her friend Marcela (Rosario Bléfari, SILVIA PRIETO). When Lila gets the opportunity to refurbish the lunchroom and run it officially as the boss, this sudden elevation of her status incites Marcela's envy and starts a slow decay of the office's delicate status quo. (Note adapted from New Europe Film Sales.) Winner, Best Actress (Liliana Juárez), 2019 Mar del Plata Film Festival. DIR/SCR Ezequiel Radusky; SCR/PROD Diego Lerman; PROD Nicolás Avruj. Argentina/Uruguay, 2019, color, 86 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED WORK SONGS
Available April 30–June 6 – Tickets $12 Watch 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 DC Labor FilmFest is presented by
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