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THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS
Sat, May 14, 5:30 p.m.; Mon, May 16, 12:45 p.m.; Wed, May 18, 12:45 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Following its world premiere at last year's TCM Classic Film Festival, we're excited to present Flicker Alley's new restoration of Robert Siodmak's rarely seen labor-ific 1951 drama THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS. When young union leader Brad Adams (Lloyd Bridges) is reluctantly appointed president of a failing plastics manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town, he finds himself with the unenviable task of cutting costs, bringing in new labor-saving machinery and laying off employees, all while simultaneously calming labor relations. Meanwhile, the plant's recently widowed owner Mrs. Doubleday (Dorothy Gish in a rare sound-era performance) is forced to consider selling the company. The stellar supporting cast includes Ernest Borgnine (in his debut film role), Anne Francis, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Seymour, Carleton Carpenter, Parker Fennelly, Russell Hardie, Doro Merande and James Westerfield. DIR Robert Siodmak; SCR Lemist Esler, Virginia Shaler; PROD Louis De Rochemont. U.S., 1951, b&w, 96 min. NOT RATED
Sat, May 14, 5:30 p.m.; Mon, May 16, 12:45 p.m.; Wed, May 18, 12:45 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Following its world premiere at last year's TCM Classic Film Festival, we're excited to present Flicker Alley's new restoration of Robert Siodmak's rarely seen labor-ific 1951 drama THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS. When young union leader Brad Adams (Lloyd Bridges) is reluctantly appointed president of a failing plastics manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town, he finds himself with the unenviable task of cutting costs, bringing in new labor-saving machinery and laying off employees, all while simultaneously calming labor relations. Meanwhile, the plant's recently widowed owner Mrs. Doubleday (Dorothy Gish in a rare sound-era performance) is forced to consider selling the company. The stellar supporting cast includes Ernest Borgnine (in his debut film role), Anne Francis, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Seymour, Carleton Carpenter, Parker Fennelly, Russell Hardie, Doro Merande and James Westerfield. DIR Robert Siodmak; SCR Lemist Esler, Virginia Shaler; PROD Louis De Rochemont. U.S., 1951, b&w, 96 min. NOT RATED
NINE TO FIVE
Sun, May 15, 5:10 p.m.; Tue, May 17, 12:30 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
In this hilarious caper, three working women (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton) live out their fantasy of getting even with their "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss (Dabney Coleman). Undervalued and underpaid, the secretaries take over the office and implement flex time, day care, equal pay and more. A major box office success (the film grossed more than $100M), the film inspired a TV sitcom of the same name as well as a Broadway musical. DIR/SCR Colin Higgins; SCR Patricia Resnick; PROD Bruce Gilbert. U.S., 1980, 110 min. RATED PG
Sun, May 15, 5:10 p.m.; Tue, May 17, 12:30 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
In this hilarious caper, three working women (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton) live out their fantasy of getting even with their "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss (Dabney Coleman). Undervalued and underpaid, the secretaries take over the office and implement flex time, day care, equal pay and more. A major box office success (the film grossed more than $100M), the film inspired a TV sitcom of the same name as well as a Broadway musical. DIR/SCR Colin Higgins; SCR Patricia Resnick; PROD Bruce Gilbert. U.S., 1980, 110 min. RATED PG
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THE WOBBLIES (DC LaborFest Opening Night!)
Sun, May 1, 5:30 p.m.
Q&A with filmmaker Deborah Shaffer.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
"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
Sun, May 1, 5:30 p.m.
Q&A with filmmaker Deborah Shaffer.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
"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
Julia Reichert program
UNION MAIDS with THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT
Introduced by Chelsea Bland, president, Metro DC Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)
Mon, May 2, 7:00 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
UNION MAIDS
Told through the eyes of three remarkable women, UNION MAIDS opens up one of the great untold stories in our history: the fight to form industrial unions in the first half of the 20th century. Stella, Sylvia and Kate — all humorous storytellers, in their 60s at the time of filming — reminisce about leaving their small farms for the promise of greater job opportunities in Chicago, where they eventually joined the battle for better conditions for factory workers in the early 1930s. Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature. DIR/SCR/PROD Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu. U.S., 1976, b&w, 48 min. NOT RATED
Followed by:
THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT
Two days before Christmas in 2008, the General Motors assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio, shut its doors. Two thousand workers and 200 management staff were let go and related businesses shuttered, resulting in thousands more displaced workers. But GM staffers lost much more than a job, including the pride shared in their work and camaraderie built over many years. Events captured in the film serve as an interesting harbinger of the cultural forces that some believe had a hand in carrying Donald Trump to the White House. Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject. DIR/SCR/PROD Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar. U.S., 2009, color, 40 min. NOT RATED
UNION MAIDS with THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT
Introduced by Chelsea Bland, president, Metro DC Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)
Mon, May 2, 7:00 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
UNION MAIDS
Told through the eyes of three remarkable women, UNION MAIDS opens up one of the great untold stories in our history: the fight to form industrial unions in the first half of the 20th century. Stella, Sylvia and Kate — all humorous storytellers, in their 60s at the time of filming — reminisce about leaving their small farms for the promise of greater job opportunities in Chicago, where they eventually joined the battle for better conditions for factory workers in the early 1930s. Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature. DIR/SCR/PROD Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu. U.S., 1976, b&w, 48 min. NOT RATED
Followed by:
THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT
Two days before Christmas in 2008, the General Motors assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio, shut its doors. Two thousand workers and 200 management staff were let go and related businesses shuttered, resulting in thousands more displaced workers. But GM staffers lost much more than a job, including the pride shared in their work and camaraderie built over many years. Events captured in the film serve as an interesting harbinger of the cultural forces that some believe had a hand in carrying Donald Trump to the White House. Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject. DIR/SCR/PROD Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar. U.S., 2009, color, 40 min. NOT RATED
LOCAL 1196:
A STEELWORKERS STRIKE
Plus speakers/Happy Hour!
Tue, May 3, 6:00p (doors open 5:30)
FREE, RSVP here: bit.ly/3jZC6nW
Goethe-Institut Washington, 1377 R St. NW Ste. 300, Washington, DC 20009
Jobs matter. Unions matter. In regions that vote red. In regions that vote blue. Yet, across the country blue collar workers are feeling ignored, and left behind. On May 3, join us for a new documentary film about what happens when one steel union choses to fight back. In March of 2021, the steelworkers of USW 1196 in Brackenridge struck, citing unfair labor practices. Over the next four months, “Local 1196” follows the steelworkers from late night conversations on the picket lines, to fiery debates at the union hall, to their living rooms as bills come due.
As the U.S. gears up for critical and contentious elections in 2022, this documentary offers powerful insight into blue-collar America – the challenges, the opportunities, the hopes and the fears, undermining many stereotypes along the way.
Join the DC Shorts International Film Festival, the Goethe-Institut, the Bertelsmann Foundation, the DC LaborFest and the Oberlin College Club of Washington, DC for this film screening event and post-film happy hour.
A STEELWORKERS STRIKE
Plus speakers/Happy Hour!
Tue, May 3, 6:00p (doors open 5:30)
FREE, RSVP here: bit.ly/3jZC6nW
Goethe-Institut Washington, 1377 R St. NW Ste. 300, Washington, DC 20009
Jobs matter. Unions matter. In regions that vote red. In regions that vote blue. Yet, across the country blue collar workers are feeling ignored, and left behind. On May 3, join us for a new documentary film about what happens when one steel union choses to fight back. In March of 2021, the steelworkers of USW 1196 in Brackenridge struck, citing unfair labor practices. Over the next four months, “Local 1196” follows the steelworkers from late night conversations on the picket lines, to fiery debates at the union hall, to their living rooms as bills come due.
As the U.S. gears up for critical and contentious elections in 2022, this documentary offers powerful insight into blue-collar America – the challenges, the opportunities, the hopes and the fears, undermining many stereotypes along the way.
Join the DC Shorts International Film Festival, the Goethe-Institut, the Bertelsmann Foundation, the DC LaborFest and the Oberlin College Club of Washington, DC for this film screening event and post-film happy hour.
DC LABOR WALK
(AFL-CIO to Union Station)
First walk since 2019!
Sun, May 22 (NEW DATE!), 10:00a; $15 per person; all proceeds benefit MWC's Community Services Agency's Emergency Assistance Fund.
CLICK HERE for tickets
Meet at AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street NW (Black Lives Matter Plaza), Washington
From the Labor Hall of Fame to Joe Hill’s ashes, worker’s history is around just about every corner in our nation’s capitol, if you know where to look. This 3-hour walking tour of downtown DC reveals labor’s often-untold story of protest and resistance. Metro Washington Council Union Cities Coordinator Chris Garlock - who usually helps local and national activists make history on DC’s streets - leads the tour.
Tour highlights: AFL-CIO lobby murals; 1953 CIO headquarters; The Real Roosevelt Memorial; Joe Hill’s ashes; Bas relief depictions of labor & trade; 1895 Knights of Labor HQ; Bonus Expeditionary Force & more.
NOTE: This is an easy 2.5-mile walk but wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather.
(AFL-CIO to Union Station)
First walk since 2019!
Sun, May 22 (NEW DATE!), 10:00a; $15 per person; all proceeds benefit MWC's Community Services Agency's Emergency Assistance Fund.
CLICK HERE for tickets
Meet at AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street NW (Black Lives Matter Plaza), Washington
From the Labor Hall of Fame to Joe Hill’s ashes, worker’s history is around just about every corner in our nation’s capitol, if you know where to look. This 3-hour walking tour of downtown DC reveals labor’s often-untold story of protest and resistance. Metro Washington Council Union Cities Coordinator Chris Garlock - who usually helps local and national activists make history on DC’s streets - leads the tour.
Tour highlights: AFL-CIO lobby murals; 1953 CIO headquarters; The Real Roosevelt Memorial; Joe Hill’s ashes; Bas relief depictions of labor & trade; 1895 Knights of Labor HQ; Bonus Expeditionary Force & more.
NOTE: This is an easy 2.5-mile walk but wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather.
THE KILLING FLOOR (1984) 4K Restoration
Mon, May 9, 6:30 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," THE KILLING FLOOR tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago stockyards. The screenplay, written by Obie Award winner Leslie Lee and based on an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago race riot of 1919. The first feature film by actor/director (and AFI Alum) Bill Duke, THE KILLING FLOOR premiered on PBS' American Playhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews and stars Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Farina, Ernest Rayford and Moses Gunn. In 1985, the film was invited to Cannes and won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award. DIR Bill Duke; SCR Leslie Lee, from a story by Elsa Rassbach; PROD George Manasse. U.S., 1984, color, 118 min. RATED PG
Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive, laboratory services and DCP by UCLA Film & Television Archive Digital Media Lab. Special thanks to Elsa Rassbach, Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Mon, May 9, 6:30 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," THE KILLING FLOOR tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago stockyards. The screenplay, written by Obie Award winner Leslie Lee and based on an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago race riot of 1919. The first feature film by actor/director (and AFI Alum) Bill Duke, THE KILLING FLOOR premiered on PBS' American Playhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews and stars Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Farina, Ernest Rayford and Moses Gunn. In 1985, the film was invited to Cannes and won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award. DIR Bill Duke; SCR Leslie Lee, from a story by Elsa Rassbach; PROD George Manasse. U.S., 1984, color, 118 min. RATED PG
Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive, laboratory services and DCP by UCLA Film & Television Archive Digital Media Lab. Special thanks to Elsa Rassbach, Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA Film & Television Archive.
STANDING UP: TALES OF STRUGGLE
With authors Ellen Bravo & Larry Miller
Hosted by Metro Washington Labor Council President Dyana Forester
Weds May 11, 6:00p
Busboys & Poets, 14th & V, Washington, DC
FREE; RSVP HERE: bit.ly/3rLmNmM
Inspired by five decades of organizing, Standing Up – a novel by Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller -- spotlights those who clean bloody hospital sheets, forge parts for sewer pipes, arrange flights, or process checks — while caring for kids, holding relationships together and wrestling with multiple forms of oppression. As the characters stand up, slow down, form unions, leave an abusive relationship or just stir up good trouble, they entertain and enlighten, encourage us to love deeply and keep fighting for justice.
“An essential novel for any union organizer or labor movement enthusiast.”
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler
With authors Ellen Bravo & Larry Miller
Hosted by Metro Washington Labor Council President Dyana Forester
Weds May 11, 6:00p
Busboys & Poets, 14th & V, Washington, DC
FREE; RSVP HERE: bit.ly/3rLmNmM
Inspired by five decades of organizing, Standing Up – a novel by Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller -- spotlights those who clean bloody hospital sheets, forge parts for sewer pipes, arrange flights, or process checks — while caring for kids, holding relationships together and wrestling with multiple forms of oppression. As the characters stand up, slow down, form unions, leave an abusive relationship or just stir up good trouble, they entertain and enlighten, encourage us to love deeply and keep fighting for justice.
“An essential novel for any union organizer or labor movement enthusiast.”
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler
THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS
Sat, May 14, 5:30 p.m.; Mon, May 16, 12:45 p.m.; Wed, May 18, 12:45 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Following its world premiere at last year's TCM Classic Film Festival, we're excited to present Flicker Alley's new restoration of Robert Siodmak's rarely seen labor-ific 1951 drama THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS. When young union leader Brad Adams (Lloyd Bridges) is reluctantly appointed president of a failing plastics manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town, he finds himself with the unenviable task of cutting costs, bringing in new labor-saving machinery and laying off employees, all while simultaneously calming labor relations. Meanwhile, the plant's recently widowed owner Mrs. Doubleday (Dorothy Gish in a rare sound-era performance) is forced to consider selling the company. The stellar supporting cast includes Ernest Borgnine (in his debut film role), Anne Francis, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Seymour, Carleton Carpenter, Parker Fennelly, Russell Hardie, Doro Merande and James Westerfield. DIR Robert Siodmak; SCR Lemist Esler, Virginia Shaler; PROD Louis De Rochemont. U.S., 1951, b&w, 96 min. NOT RATED
Sat, May 14, 5:30 p.m.; Mon, May 16, 12:45 p.m.; Wed, May 18, 12:45 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Following its world premiere at last year's TCM Classic Film Festival, we're excited to present Flicker Alley's new restoration of Robert Siodmak's rarely seen labor-ific 1951 drama THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS. When young union leader Brad Adams (Lloyd Bridges) is reluctantly appointed president of a failing plastics manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town, he finds himself with the unenviable task of cutting costs, bringing in new labor-saving machinery and laying off employees, all while simultaneously calming labor relations. Meanwhile, the plant's recently widowed owner Mrs. Doubleday (Dorothy Gish in a rare sound-era performance) is forced to consider selling the company. The stellar supporting cast includes Ernest Borgnine (in his debut film role), Anne Francis, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Seymour, Carleton Carpenter, Parker Fennelly, Russell Hardie, Doro Merande and James Westerfield. DIR Robert Siodmak; SCR Lemist Esler, Virginia Shaler; PROD Louis De Rochemont. U.S., 1951, b&w, 96 min. NOT RATED
NINE TO FIVE
Sun, May 15, 5:10 p.m.; Tue, May 17, 12:30 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
In this hilarious caper, three working women (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton) live out their fantasy of getting even with their "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss (Dabney Coleman). Undervalued and underpaid, the secretaries take over the office and implement flex time, day care, equal pay and more. A major box office success (the film grossed more than $100M), the film inspired a TV sitcom of the same name as well as a Broadway musical. DIR/SCR Colin Higgins; SCR Patricia Resnick; PROD Bruce Gilbert. U.S., 1980, 110 min. RATED PG
Sun, May 15, 5:10 p.m.; Tue, May 17, 12:30 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
In this hilarious caper, three working women (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton) live out their fantasy of getting even with their "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss (Dabney Coleman). Undervalued and underpaid, the secretaries take over the office and implement flex time, day care, equal pay and more. A major box office success (the film grossed more than $100M), the film inspired a TV sitcom of the same name as well as a Broadway musical. DIR/SCR Colin Higgins; SCR Patricia Resnick; PROD Bruce Gilbert. U.S., 1980, 110 min. RATED PG
THE UNITED STATES OF ALEC
Monday, May 16, 7p
NEW DEAL CAFÉ, 113 Centerway Roosevelt Center, Greenbelt, MD 20770 [On Zoom and in person]
Reel and Meal at the New Deal: The United States of ALEC is described as "a report on the most influential corporate-funded political force most of America has never heard of — ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council." More information and pickup dinner plans! (7 to 9pm)
Monday, May 16, 7p
NEW DEAL CAFÉ, 113 Centerway Roosevelt Center, Greenbelt, MD 20770 [On Zoom and in person]
Reel and Meal at the New Deal: The United States of ALEC is described as "a report on the most influential corporate-funded political force most of America has never heard of — ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council." More information and pickup dinner plans! (7 to 9pm)
THE PRIVATIZATION OF EVERYTHING
Wed, May 18, 6:00 p.m.
Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St. NW Washington, DC.
Sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute.
Donald Cohen, author of The Privatization of Everything (New Press), will be joined by Community Change president Dorian Warren to discuss trends in privatization and how workers and communities can fight back. Activist and filmmaker Naomi Klein has called Cohen's new book "an essential read for those who want to fight the assault on public goods and the commons."
Wed, May 18, 6:00 p.m.
Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St. NW Washington, DC.
Sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute.
Donald Cohen, author of The Privatization of Everything (New Press), will be joined by Community Change president Dorian Warren to discuss trends in privatization and how workers and communities can fight back. Activist and filmmaker Naomi Klein has called Cohen's new book "an essential read for those who want to fight the assault on public goods and the commons."
OFFICE SPACE
Fri, May 20, 7:00 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
"I could burn this place down." The perennial DC Labor FilmFest favorite OFFICE SPACE returns! Ron Livingston, Ajau Naidu and David Herman star as three disgruntled workers at the dreary, fluorescent-lit office of Initech who learn of impending layoffs at the company and hatch a scheme to embezzle from their greedy bosses; co-starring Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, John C. McGinley and Diedrich Bader. Director Mike Judge's theatrical debut was largely ignored upon release, but has become a veritable ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW for cube-farmers everywhere. DIR/SCR/PROD Mike Judge; PROD Daniel Rappaport, Michael Rotenberg. U.S., 1999, color, 89 min. RATED R
Fri, May 20, 7:00 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
"I could burn this place down." The perennial DC Labor FilmFest favorite OFFICE SPACE returns! Ron Livingston, Ajau Naidu and David Herman star as three disgruntled workers at the dreary, fluorescent-lit office of Initech who learn of impending layoffs at the company and hatch a scheme to embezzle from their greedy bosses; co-starring Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, John C. McGinley and Diedrich Bader. Director Mike Judge's theatrical debut was largely ignored upon release, but has become a veritable ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW for cube-farmers everywhere. DIR/SCR/PROD Mike Judge; PROD Daniel Rappaport, Michael Rotenberg. U.S., 1999, color, 89 min. RATED R
Music
DC LABOR CHORUS SPRING CONCERT (24th Annual)
Sunday, May 22⋅4:00 – 6:00pm
Cultural Arts Center, Montgomery College, 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Tickets: bit.ly/3K2IeGq
The DC Labor Chorus, founded and directed by longtime cultural worker Elise Bryant, is a musical ensemble from the Washington, DC, area that sings at concerts, rallies, demonstrations, and picket lines. We are made up of various ages, races and faith traditions. While some members are actually current or former union employees, every member actively supports the principle of liberty and justice for all. Some of us are professional musicians, while others simply enjoy blending their voices to make a joyous sound that comes from songs of the civil rights and labor movements, as well as pop, jazz and other musical genres. Most of us are union members and activists who just love to sing! We sing for solidarity. We sing for peace. We sing for jobs. We sing for justice. We sing for joy!
DC LABOR CHORUS SPRING CONCERT (24th Annual)
Sunday, May 22⋅4:00 – 6:00pm
Cultural Arts Center, Montgomery College, 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Tickets: bit.ly/3K2IeGq
The DC Labor Chorus, founded and directed by longtime cultural worker Elise Bryant, is a musical ensemble from the Washington, DC, area that sings at concerts, rallies, demonstrations, and picket lines. We are made up of various ages, races and faith traditions. While some members are actually current or former union employees, every member actively supports the principle of liberty and justice for all. Some of us are professional musicians, while others simply enjoy blending their voices to make a joyous sound that comes from songs of the civil rights and labor movements, as well as pop, jazz and other musical genres. Most of us are union members and activists who just love to sing! We sing for solidarity. We sing for peace. We sing for jobs. We sing for justice. We sing for joy!
CANE FIRE
Sun, May 22, 6:00 p.m.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
The Hawaiian island of Kaua'i is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. CANE FIRE critically examines the island's history — and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it — through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon's family, who first immigrated to Kaua'i from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sources — from Banua-Simon's observational footage to amateur YouTube travelogues to epic Hollywood dance sequences — CANE FIRE offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast indigenous and working-class residents as extras in their own story. Official Selection, 2020 Hot Docs Film Festival, 2021 MoMA Doc Fortnight. DIR/SCR/PROD Anthony Banua-Simon; SCR/PROD Michael Vass. U.S., 2020, color, 90 min. In English, Pidgin English and Olelo Hawaiian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Sun, May 22, 6:00 p.m.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
The Hawaiian island of Kaua'i is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. CANE FIRE critically examines the island's history — and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it — through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon's family, who first immigrated to Kaua'i from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sources — from Banua-Simon's observational footage to amateur YouTube travelogues to epic Hollywood dance sequences — CANE FIRE offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast indigenous and working-class residents as extras in their own story. Official Selection, 2020 Hot Docs Film Festival, 2021 MoMA Doc Fortnight. DIR/SCR/PROD Anthony Banua-Simon; SCR/PROD Michael Vass. U.S., 2020, color, 90 min. In English, Pidgin English and Olelo Hawaiian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
9 TO 5: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT
Mon, May 23, 7:00 p.m.
Q&A with 9to5 co-founder Karen Nussbaum, hosted by Elise Bryant, president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Most have heard the song "Nine to Five" by Dolly Parton or seen the 1980s blockbuster of the same name starring Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda (also part of this series!). Yet few realize that these icons of popular culture grew out of a social movement that spanned more than 25 years and sought to have a profound impact on work for women, and the American workforce as a whole. This illuminating documentary tells this little-known story, starting with a group of women office workers in Boston in the early 1970s and touching on still-relevant issues such as sexual harassment, pay equity and the "glass ceiling." DIR/SCR/PROD Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar. U.S., 2019, color, 85 min. NOT RATED
Mon, May 23, 7:00 p.m.
Q&A with 9to5 co-founder Karen Nussbaum, hosted by Elise Bryant, president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Most have heard the song "Nine to Five" by Dolly Parton or seen the 1980s blockbuster of the same name starring Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda (also part of this series!). Yet few realize that these icons of popular culture grew out of a social movement that spanned more than 25 years and sought to have a profound impact on work for women, and the American workforce as a whole. This illuminating documentary tells this little-known story, starting with a group of women office workers in Boston in the early 1970s and touching on still-relevant issues such as sexual harassment, pay equity and the "glass ceiling." DIR/SCR/PROD Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar. U.S., 2019, color, 85 min. NOT RATED
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941) 35mm Archival Print
Tue, May 24, 7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Harold Meyerson, Editor At Large, The American Prospect.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Director John Ford's nostalgic drama traces the lives of the Morgan clan, a hardworking Welsh coal-mining family determined to stay together as they overcome hardship and tragedy in a rapidly modernizing world. Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Walter Pidgeon and young Roddy McDowell star in this classic film that received a total of five Academy Awards®, beating CITIZEN KANE for the Best Picture Oscar®. (Note courtesy of Rochester Labor Film Series.) DIR John Ford, Philip Dunne, from the novel by Richard Llewellyn; PROD Darryl F. Zanuck. U.S., 1941, b&w, 118 min. NOT RATED
35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation.
Tue, May 24, 7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Harold Meyerson, Editor At Large, The American Prospect.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Director John Ford's nostalgic drama traces the lives of the Morgan clan, a hardworking Welsh coal-mining family determined to stay together as they overcome hardship and tragedy in a rapidly modernizing world. Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Walter Pidgeon and young Roddy McDowell star in this classic film that received a total of five Academy Awards®, beating CITIZEN KANE for the Best Picture Oscar®. (Note courtesy of Rochester Labor Film Series.) DIR John Ford, Philip Dunne, from the novel by Richard Llewellyn; PROD Darryl F. Zanuck. U.S., 1941, b&w, 118 min. NOT RATED
35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation.
William Greaves program
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (1969) with VOICE OF LA RAZA
Tue, May 31, 6:45 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (1969)
Commissioned by Newsweek magazine, what could have been a straightforward news report or corporate film is transformed by filmmaker William Greaves (SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE; IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE) into a one-of-kind, realer-than-real hybrid documentary. Made in 1969 in a southern auto plant, a moderation session takes place between white management and African American line workers. But instead of a dry HR exercise, Greaves and company stage the session like an encounter group, using group therapy methods of role playing and reenactment across a number of improvised situations. The participants express themselves and react to others in the moment, and various prejudices, grievances and resentments are revealed in surprisingly frank ways — surprising too for the equanimity that prevails during some of the thornier exchanges. DIR/SCR/PROD William Greaves. U.S., 1969, b&w, 53 min. NOT RATED
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
Followed by
VOICE OF LA RAZA (50th Anniversary)
Shot on location in Los Angeles, New York and Albuquerque, VOICE OF LA RAZA features actor Anthony Quinn in conversation with a cross-section of Latinx people in both urban and rural settings about everyday discrimination, especially as it concerns employment. Commissioned by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, this otherwise straightforward cinéma verité documentary is complicated by filmmaker William Greaves with a variety of aesthetic gambits. Most impressive is an opening sequence that only later reveals itself to be dramatized, in a metafictional twist, with the actor Jose Perez going from portraying a Puerto Rican electrician frustrated in his search for a better job to speaking directly to camera as a working Puerto Rican actor frustrated in his search for better roles. Quinn shares his own recollections and experiences of discrimination growing up as a Mexican American in Los Angeles, as does actress Rita Moreno, who moved as a young girl from Puerto Rico to New York. DIR/SCR/PROD William Greaves; SCR José García Torres. U.S., 1972, color, 39 min. NOT RATED
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (1969) with VOICE OF LA RAZA
Tue, May 31, 6:45 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (1969)
Commissioned by Newsweek magazine, what could have been a straightforward news report or corporate film is transformed by filmmaker William Greaves (SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE; IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE) into a one-of-kind, realer-than-real hybrid documentary. Made in 1969 in a southern auto plant, a moderation session takes place between white management and African American line workers. But instead of a dry HR exercise, Greaves and company stage the session like an encounter group, using group therapy methods of role playing and reenactment across a number of improvised situations. The participants express themselves and react to others in the moment, and various prejudices, grievances and resentments are revealed in surprisingly frank ways — surprising too for the equanimity that prevails during some of the thornier exchanges. DIR/SCR/PROD William Greaves. U.S., 1969, b&w, 53 min. NOT RATED
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
Followed by
VOICE OF LA RAZA (50th Anniversary)
Shot on location in Los Angeles, New York and Albuquerque, VOICE OF LA RAZA features actor Anthony Quinn in conversation with a cross-section of Latinx people in both urban and rural settings about everyday discrimination, especially as it concerns employment. Commissioned by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, this otherwise straightforward cinéma verité documentary is complicated by filmmaker William Greaves with a variety of aesthetic gambits. Most impressive is an opening sequence that only later reveals itself to be dramatized, in a metafictional twist, with the actor Jose Perez going from portraying a Puerto Rican electrician frustrated in his search for a better job to speaking directly to camera as a working Puerto Rican actor frustrated in his search for better roles. Quinn shares his own recollections and experiences of discrimination growing up as a Mexican American in Los Angeles, as does actress Rita Moreno, who moved as a young girl from Puerto Rico to New York. DIR/SCR/PROD William Greaves; SCR José García Torres. U.S., 1972, color, 39 min. NOT RATED
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
PRIDE (2014)
Thurs, June 2, 7:00 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Inspired by a true story. It's the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all. Starring Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, Andrew Scott and George MacKay. DIR Matthew Warchus; SCR Stephen Beresford; PROD David Livingstone. UK/France/U.S., 2014, color, 119 min. In English and Welsh with English subtitles. RATED R
Thurs, June 2, 7:00 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Inspired by a true story. It's the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all. Starring Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, Andrew Scott and George MacKay. DIR Matthew Warchus; SCR Stephen Beresford; PROD David Livingstone. UK/France/U.S., 2014, color, 119 min. In English and Welsh with English subtitles. RATED R
2022 Archive: Films screened previously this year
FILMS: The First Wave & Coronavirus Capitalism
Tuesday, March 8
FREE; 7p ET; RSVP HERE
Two must-see films about the pandemic.
The First Wave (2021, 93m) follows nurses, doctors, and administrators as they all desperately try to navigate the COVID-19 crisis.
Coronavirus Capitalism (2020, 8:48) features Naomi Klein on how COVID gives capitalists license to steal even more than they used to.
Introduced by Ken Zinn, Political Director for National Nurses United.
"THE FIRST WAVE is a testament to the strength of the human spirit." National Geographic
"A breathtaking testament to the fight to live, the calling to heal, and the power of human connection." Variety
"Viscerally disturbing and achingly humanistic." Los Angeles Times.
Co-sponsored by: Old Labor Hall (Barre. VT), London Labour Film Festival, Construir Cine Film Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Workers Unite! Film Festival (New York City).
Tuesday, March 8
FREE; 7p ET; RSVP HERE
Two must-see films about the pandemic.
The First Wave (2021, 93m) follows nurses, doctors, and administrators as they all desperately try to navigate the COVID-19 crisis.
Coronavirus Capitalism (2020, 8:48) features Naomi Klein on how COVID gives capitalists license to steal even more than they used to.
Introduced by Ken Zinn, Political Director for National Nurses United.
"THE FIRST WAVE is a testament to the strength of the human spirit." National Geographic
"A breathtaking testament to the fight to live, the calling to heal, and the power of human connection." Variety
"Viscerally disturbing and achingly humanistic." Los Angeles Times.
Co-sponsored by: Old Labor Hall (Barre. VT), London Labour Film Festival, Construir Cine Film Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Workers Unite! Film Festival (New York City).
FILM/BOOK/TALK: Confessions of A Union Buster
Tuesday, February 8, 7p ET
FREE; RSVP here.
Short film program and Q&A with legendary union organizer Bob Muehlenkamp, author of the forward for Confessions of a Union Buster: New Activist Edition (2022).
Union Busting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (11/15/2021, 23m)
John Oliver discusses the mechanics of union busting, why the companies who do it face so few consequences, and what it really means when your manager wants to talk to you about “your attendance.”
Alice’s Egg Plant (1925, 8m)
Walt Disney directed this short in which chickens at an egg factory are organized to strike for shorter hours and smaller eggs by Little Red Henski from Moscow, Russia, and the bosses have to come up with a clever way to extract more eggs from the striking chickens.
Busted: how unions are stopped before they start - a call to action (7m)
LaborLab is creating a feature film about how companies stop unions before they start with manipulative tactics. The best way to stop this is to expose how this really works by sharing our stories. This short video is just one story and a call to action for others to share theirs.
Tuesday, February 8, 7p ET
FREE; RSVP here.
Short film program and Q&A with legendary union organizer Bob Muehlenkamp, author of the forward for Confessions of a Union Buster: New Activist Edition (2022).
Union Busting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (11/15/2021, 23m)
John Oliver discusses the mechanics of union busting, why the companies who do it face so few consequences, and what it really means when your manager wants to talk to you about “your attendance.”
Alice’s Egg Plant (1925, 8m)
Walt Disney directed this short in which chickens at an egg factory are organized to strike for shorter hours and smaller eggs by Little Red Henski from Moscow, Russia, and the bosses have to come up with a clever way to extract more eggs from the striking chickens.
Busted: how unions are stopped before they start - a call to action (7m)
LaborLab is creating a feature film about how companies stop unions before they start with manipulative tactics. The best way to stop this is to expose how this really works by sharing our stories. This short video is just one story and a call to action for others to share theirs.
Nae Pasaran
Screening free online through Feb 4, 2022
Presented by the London Labour Film Festival, a member of the Global Labor Film Festival Network (coordinated by the DC Labor FilmFest).
Click here for global access to watch at your convenience.
2018, 96m; directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra.
Click here to see the trailer.
A timely reminder that the actions of a few people making a stand against injustice can bring about major change, this 2018 documentary is about a group of workers at a Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride, Scotland, who refused to work on Chilean Air Force parts from 1974-78 due to the atrocities carried out in Chile by the Pinochet dictatorship. The film includes a special introduction just for this screening by John Keenan, one of the original activists and stars of the film who was on the Union Rolls Royce committee throughout the boycott.
Screening free online through Feb 4, 2022
Presented by the London Labour Film Festival, a member of the Global Labor Film Festival Network (coordinated by the DC Labor FilmFest).
Click here for global access to watch at your convenience.
2018, 96m; directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra.
Click here to see the trailer.
A timely reminder that the actions of a few people making a stand against injustice can bring about major change, this 2018 documentary is about a group of workers at a Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride, Scotland, who refused to work on Chilean Air Force parts from 1974-78 due to the atrocities carried out in Chile by the Pinochet dictatorship. The film includes a special introduction just for this screening by John Keenan, one of the original activists and stars of the film who was on the Union Rolls Royce committee throughout the boycott.
FILM: With Babies and Banners (with filmmaker Lyn Goldfarb)
Thursday, January 27, 7p
FREE (online screening); RSVP here.
This Oscar-nominated documentary tells the dramatic story of the women of the great General Motors sit-down strike—an event that changed American labor history. The women reunited 40 years later to show the strike’s ongoing relevance.
1979, 45min
“Full of drama, insight and general good humor, coupled with a remarkable use of stock footage, sets a high standard for future compilation films. With Babies and Banners succeeds in making concerns that were alive 40 years ago strikingly relevant today as well.”
– Variety
CLUW president – and Labor Goes to the Movies podcast co-host – Elise Bryant will host a Q&A afterwards with Lyn Goldfarb.
Thursday, January 27, 7p
FREE (online screening); RSVP here.
This Oscar-nominated documentary tells the dramatic story of the women of the great General Motors sit-down strike—an event that changed American labor history. The women reunited 40 years later to show the strike’s ongoing relevance.
1979, 45min
“Full of drama, insight and general good humor, coupled with a remarkable use of stock footage, sets a high standard for future compilation films. With Babies and Banners succeeds in making concerns that were alive 40 years ago strikingly relevant today as well.”
– Variety
CLUW president – and Labor Goes to the Movies podcast co-host – Elise Bryant will host a Q&A afterwards with Lyn Goldfarb.
Four excellent labor-related films are in the line-up for this weekend’s online World House Documentary Film Festival: At the River I Stand: The 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King; Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin; Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson & Nonviolence in the Search for Workers' Rights; Reparations.
All are free and online; see below for details and trailers. Click here to register to receive an email with the full program and instructions on how to watch the films and join the webinar.
For the 2022 King Holiday, the World House Project at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law within Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is hosting the free, four-day virtual film festival/webinar from the evening of Jan. 14 through Jan. 17. This virtual event will feature over 30 documentaries, musical performances, interviews and panel discussions that speak to Dr. King's still unanswered question: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
All are free and online; see below for details and trailers. Click here to register to receive an email with the full program and instructions on how to watch the films and join the webinar.
For the 2022 King Holiday, the World House Project at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law within Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is hosting the free, four-day virtual film festival/webinar from the evening of Jan. 14 through Jan. 17. This virtual event will feature over 30 documentaries, musical performances, interviews and panel discussions that speak to Dr. King's still unanswered question: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?