Tickets are now available for the entire 2022 DC Labor FilmFest line-up at AFI Silver!
CLICK HERE see trailers!
CLICK HERE for details on the films and links to buy tickets!
CLICK HERE for a full-color downloadable PDF!
PLUS: Our Opening Night screening of The Wobblies – Sunday, May 1 at 5:30p – will now include a Q&A with filmmaker Deborah Shaffer! |
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Celebrate Asian American Heritage Month
with Free Online Labor Film Screenings April 24th-May 4th
The DC Labor FilmFest has teamed up with the Workers Unite Film Festival and other labor film festivals worldwide to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with free online screenings of labor films starting on Sunday, April 24th (10am EST) through Wednesday, May 4th (10pm EST). All the films are available worldwide free on-demand; you only need to create a free login on Eventive if you don't already have one. CLICK HERE to pre-order now!
Hosted by Workers Unite Film Festival. Co-sponsored by DC Labor FilmFest, Dublin Labour Film Festival, Rochester Labor Film Series, LaborFest International Working Class Film and Video Festival (San Francisco), Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival (Santa Cruz), Labor Film Night at the Socialist Labor Party Hall (Vermont), and the London Labour Film Festival.
Happy Cleaners - An immigrant story of a Korean American family struggling to run a dry cleaning business in Flushing, Queens. Follow the Choi family as they confront their individual struggles, cultural clashes, and generational divide all while trying to keep their failing family business afloat. (2019, 1 hr 36m, Directed by Julian Kim and Peter S. Lee) (Tix) (Trailer)
Call Taxi - Jason gets in a Korean taxi to catch a 6:30 AM flight from JFK. To his surprise, his father is the driver. A conversation that should have happened years ago occurs between the two men. (2016, 18m, Directed by Julian Kim and Peter S. Lee) (Tix) (Trailer)
Alone/Together - Artists, travelers, teachers, children, parents, and essential workers in eleven different countries - including Taiwan, Japan, China, and Malaysia - struggle and persevere through the COVID-19 pandemic. (2022, 40m, Directed by Hsuan Yu Pan) (Tix) (Trailer)
One Generation’s Time: The Story of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes - On June 1,1981, Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, two reform officers in Seattle’s Alaska Cannery Workers’ Union, Local 37 of the (ILWU), were gunned down as they worked in the union offices. The men were attempting to reform the union and were calling for better working conditions in the canneries. On the surface, their murders were meant to look like just another gang-related slaying. But later, the killings were revealed to be a hit originating from the Marcos regime. Silme and Gene’s friends, families and colleagues sought justice for the murders, and continued the fight for equality for the months and years to come. This touching and powerful film details the murders, the fight for fair labor conditions, the civil rights movement the murdered men helped foster, and the ensuing efforts to seek justice for their killings. (2013, 1 hr, Directed by Shannon Gee) (Tix) (Trailer)
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THE WOBBLIES
Sunday, May 1, 5:30p
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910
INFO/TICKETS
Opening Night of the 2022 DC Labor FilmFest; Q&A with filmmaker Deborah Shaffer!
"Solidarity! All for one and one for all!" Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled workers into "one big union" and changed the course of American history. This compelling documentary of the IWW (or "The Wobblies," as they were known) tells the story of workers in factories, sawmills, wheat fields, forests, mines and on the docks as they organize and demand better wages, healthcare, overtime pay and safer working conditions. In some respects, men and women, Black and white, skilled and unskilled workers joining a union and speaking their minds seems so long ago, but in other ways, the film mirrors today's headlines, depicting a nation torn apart by corporate greed. Filmmakers Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird weave history, archival film footage, interviews with early IWW members (by then in their 80s and 90s), cartoons, original art and classic Wobbly songs (many written by Joe Hill) to pay tribute to the legacy of these rebels who paved the way and risked their lives for the many of the rights that we still enjoy today. Restored by the Museum of Modern Art and recently inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
(Note courtesy of Kino Lorber.) DIR/PROD Deborah Shaffer, Stewart Bird. U.S., 1979, color, 89 min. NOT RATED |
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