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MISS MARX

WORKERS UNITE! FILM FESTIVAL 2021

IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE

THE LUNCHROOM [PLANTA PERMANENTE]

WORK SONGS

2021 DC Labor FilmFest: Miss Marx opens today!

Two years ago we brought you [link removed] The Young Karl Marx, this year it's his daughter, [link removed] Miss Marx. "It's unlikely that this tragic-fated socialist pioneer, the daughter of Karl Marx, ever enjoyed a punk-rock freakout after hitting the opium pipe," points out The Guardian, "but that's what happens here. [link removed] Romola Garai going full Courtney Love makes for one of the film's livelier tilts against biopic proprieties. What the film does well is to capture the domestic reality of Victorian life among the socialists," The Guardian adds, "ultimately, it's Garai's performance that makes the film so watchable."

LGTTM Movie Club Discussion: Ida B. Wells (and zombies): We cover a lot of ground on our first [link removed] Labor Goes to the Movies Movie Club session, from an in-depth discussion of Ida B. Wells to the worker origins of zombies. Plus we get a fascinating glimpse into Elise's Detroit theater roots and...is The Death of Stalin a labor movie? Join the conversation this Thursday night at 7p ET for the [link removed] Labor Goes to the Movies podcast Movie Club discussion!

Chris Garlock, Director, DC Labor FilmFest

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MISS MARX

Available May 11-June 6 - [link removed] Tickets $5
Watch anytime starting 5/11 and join us In the LABOR GOES TO THE MOVIES podcast Movie Club discussions Thursdays at 7p! [link removed] Click here to RSVP

Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor (Romola Garai) is Karl Marx's youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the workers' battles and fights for women's rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883, she meets Edward Aveling (Patrick Kennedy) and her life is crushed by a passionate, but tragic, love story. (Note adapted from Celluloid Dreams.) Winner, FEDIC Award for Best Film, 2020 Venice Film Festival. DIR/SCR Susanna Nicchiarelli; PROD Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa. Italy/Belgium, 2020, color, 107 min. In English. NOT RATED

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WORKERS UNITE! FILM FESTIVAL 2021
SEASON 10 PREVIEW (CLICK ON VIDEO)
May Online Festival - Films Available Now, Free and On-Demand 5/7-5/12! Watch over 25 films free and on-demand.
May 11th-12th Only: 9to5: The Story of A Movement - In the 1970s, America's secretaries took to the streets, fed up with on-the-job abuse. They created a movement called 9to5, which later inspired Jane Fonda to make a movie and Dolly Parton to write a song. This is the untold story of their fight. (Directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, 86 min, 2019). ([link removed] More Info)

WUFF -- like the DC Labor FilmFest -- is part of the Global Labor Film Festival Network.

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IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE

Available May 6-June 6 - [link removed] Tickets $5
Watch anytime starting 5/6 and join us In the LABOR GOES TO THE MOVIES podcast Movie Club discussions Thursdays at 7p! [link removed] Click here to RSVP

Recognized in 2020 with a special Pulitzer Prize, Ida B. Wells was a household name in Black America during much of her lifetime (1862-1931) and she was considered the equal of her well-known African American contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Emmy Award®-winning filmmaker William Greaves' (SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE) IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. The words of Wells are brought to life in the film through the performance of Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison as she reads selections from Wells' memoir, "Crusade for Justice," and other writings. (Note adapted from California Newsreel.) DIR/SCR/PROD William Greaves. U.S., 1989, color/b&w, 53 min. NOT RATED

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- 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. (.) 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
THE LUNCHROOM [PLANTA PERMANENTE]
Available May 4-June 6 [link removed] Tickets $5
Watch anytime starting 5/4 and join us In the LABOR GOES TO THE MOVIES podcast Movie Club discussions Thursdays at 7p! [link removed] Click here to RSVP
Note adapted from New Europe Film Sales

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- "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. (.) Official Selection, 2020 Beloit International Film Festival. DIR/SCR/PROD Mark Street. U.S., 2019, color, 68 min. NOT RATED
WORK SONGS
Available April 30-June 6 [link removed] Tickets $12
Watch anytime starting 4/30 and join us In the LABOR GOES TO THE MOVIES podcast Movie Club discussions Thursdays at 7p! [link removed] Click here to RSVP.
Note adapted from Argot Pictures

The 2021 DC Labor FilmFest is presented by
the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO and the American Film Institute's Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

PREMIERE SPONSORS: [link removed] American Income Life * IFPTE * NNU

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