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REPORT FROM DUBLIN
Organizing A Dublin Labor FilmFest

By Chris Garlock
(10/17/08) Nearly 600 Dublin-area healthcare workers filled the Mansion House – headquarters for Dublin’s Lord Mayor and the site of many historic Irish labor and independence gatherings -- for a DC Labor FilmFest-sponsored screening of Ken Loach's It's A Free World Thursday afternoon. The screening was hosted by the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union (SIPTU) Dublin Health Services Branch to kick off its 2008 regional conference. The film, which had its North American premiere at the 2007 DC Labor FilmFest, is a gripping drama showing the human impact of agency workers – temporary workers, usually foreign nationals with few rights or protections -- which is one of the burning issues facing unions in Ireland, as elsewhere in the world. I was very pleased to report to the assembled union members and leaders that my meeting with the Irish Film Institute earlier Thursday had gone very well and that a Dublin Labor FilmFest as early as 2009 looks very possible, perfect timing to help celebrate the union's 100th anniversary. A Dublin Labor FilmFest would join a small but growing network of labor-themed film festivals around the world, as union movements look to tap into the power of movies to reach new audiences as well as existing members.

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(10/13/08) "Thanks so much for bringing these films to DC!” was a comment often heard at this year’s DC Labor FilmFest, which wrapped up the main schedule over the weekend at the AFI theater in Silver Spring. Hundreds turned out for the annual film festival featuring films about work and workers from around the world. Large and appreciative crowds - nearly 1,000 people, many first-time attendees - turned out for the screenings, and especially enjoyed Saturday afternoon’s screening of the 1928 classic The Crowd with live organ accompaniment and Note By Note with Q&A afterward with director Ben Niles, which drew rave reviews as filmgoers lined up to buy DVDs signed by the director. Click here for a photo album from the Filmfest. Photo by Chris Garlock

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