NOTE: Regular festival currently on hiatus but supporting/co-sponsoring other festival events as appropriate; check our Facebook page.
Cinema celebrating working people – solidarity with all those denied the right to work
@workerfilmfest
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Pioneer Valley Labor Film Festival
Western Massachusetts
Currently in the planning stage.
Pat Greenfield
patriciagreenfield@comcast.net
Dundalk, MD: Epic Moments In U.S. Workers’ History*
EPIC MOMENTS IN U.S. WORKERS’ HISTORY 2016 (April-June)
CCBC-Essex 1:30-3:00 p.m.
April 13–The Factory Girls of Lowell Massachusetts in 1836
Daughters of Free Men
April 20–The 1877 Railroad Strike
1877: The Grand Army of Starvation
April 27–Homestead steel strike of 1892
The River Ran Red
May 4–Pullman car strike of 1894
Palace Cars and Paradise
May 11–The Uprising of the 20,000 in 1909
Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl
May 18–The textile workers national strike of 1934
The Uprising of ‘34
May 25–The Flint sit-down strike of 1936-37
The Great Sit-Down
June 1–The Memphis sanitation workers strike of 1968
At The River I Stand
June 8–The Brookside Mineworkers strike of 1972
Harlan County, USA
The P-9 strike against Hormel in 1985-86
American Dream
The Community College of Baltimore County
Bill Barry—instructor
bbarry@ccbcmd.edu
(410) 426-3966
* This is a class, not a festival, but it has many similar elements and may be useful for those organizing either labor film festivals or labor film classes
Australian International Labour Film Festival
Latest:2021
Venue: New South Wales
Facebook page (more up to date)
Australian International Labour Film Festival (outdated)
Contact:
Sandra Pires
sandra@whydocumentaries.com.au
Tel: + 61 2 4285 3545
Website: http://ailff.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-International-Labour-Film-Festival/145473178890585
New Mexico Labor Film Festival
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Founded: 2015 (originally the Santa Fe Labor Film Festival)
Latest festival; April 30-May 1, 2017
Facebook page
The New Mexico Labor Film Festival is dedicated to providing its community with films, panels and events that inform, educate, motivate and celebrate labor through the moving image arts and cinematic world.
St Louis, MO: Labor Day Week 2015 Film Festival
September 9-10, 2015
https://www.facebook.com/BRHFestival
Schedule includes: “Matewan” (9/9) and “Bread & Roses” (9/10) with “Show Me $15 Mini Doc”
Sponsored by Bread and Roses Missouri, University of Missouri Labor Studies and the St Louis Labor Council
(978) 309-9740
São Paulo, Brazil: Brazilian International Labour Film Festival
Latest festival: May 21-25 and June 4-8, 2018
Espaço Cultural Casa do Lago
University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Website: http://bilff.org/ (inactive)
2018 site here
Workers of the world, film!
The Mostra CineTrabalho / Brazilian International Labour Film Festival (BILFF) is a university extension activity of the UNESP – São Paulo State University. The event merges the cultural characteristics of a film festival with the academic discipline of social sciences to bring together knowledge and a critical view of the labour world. The BILFF aims to honour and support the film-makers whose productions regard working conditions and to provide a forum for appreciative and informed discussion of a wide range of labour issues.
Bristol Radical Film Festival*
Bristol, South West England
Founded: 2012
Latest Festival: 2025; October 4-5
The Bristol Radical Film Festival was set-up in 2011 to provide a public platform for explicitly political cinema from a range of left-wing perspectives. Since then we have held monthly screenings at The Cube Cinema as well as an annual festival which takes places a range of progressive, community-based spaces across the city. Contact us at bristolradicalfilmfestival@gmail.com.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RadicalFilmFestival
email: bristolradicalfilmfestival@gmail.com
Website
*while not exclusively a labor film festival, the Bristol Radical Film Festival’s focus on progressive issues ensures that many of its screenings include films about work, workers and workers issues.
Glasgow, Scotland: GMB Glasgow General Apex Branch Labor Films
Land and Freedom
Film screening and discussion
Thursday 12th February (2015) at 7:15pm
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow
First screening was Bread & Roses on 23 Nov 2014; The Navigators was penciled in for 30 April, with plans for The Happy Lands screening at some point.
Tommy Breslin
Branch Secretary, GMB Glasgow General Apex Branch.
Email: tbreslin@stuc.org.uk
Twitter: @GMBGlasGenApex
Horrible Bosses (2011)
98m; US
Director: Seth Gordon
Stars: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis
For Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day), the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston) into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con (Jamie Foxx), the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers… permanently. There’s only one problem: even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them.
— (C) Warner Bros
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