Category Archives: A: Labor Film Festivals (Inactive)

May Day Workers Film Festival
San Diego, CA
May 22-28, 2015
The May Day Workers Film Festival connects labor and social justice issues to audiences through the arts and culture. Expressing labor history and workers struggles as entertainment and education, while supporting social change movements.
Includes The Hand That Feeds (PLUS local labor shorts); 5/22/2015 4pm at the Digital Gym Cinema (2921 El Cajon Blvd. San Diego, CA 92104)

mayfirstfilms@gmail.com
Twitter @WorkersFilmFest
facebook.com/workersfilmfestival

Latest edition: May 1-27, 2018
Founded: 2012
Seattle, WA
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MayWorks is a four-week-long series of art exhibits, musical performances, film competitions, lectures and parades that celebrates the culture of work from the last century through today. MayWorks is dedicated to honoring the struggles of the past while inspiring those who are struggling right now. It gives voice to workers through music, art, books, and poetry—through the celebration of the culture of working people.

2018 Calendar of events
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Contact
Washington State Labor Council
314 1st Ave W
Seattle, WA. 98121

206-281-8901
1-800-542-0904
wslc@wslc.org

Morten Stenseng Gulbrandsen
morten@arbeiderfilm.no
+47 995 18898
Norway
Website: www.arbeiderfilm.no

Founded: 2005
Latest: April 2015 (10th Annual)

Synopsis: The film festival is sponsored by the Missoula Area Central Labor Council, The University of Montana Faculty Association, the Montana Public Employees Association and International Programs at UM.

Contact:
markanderlik@igc.org
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2015 screenings include: Cesar Chavez (April 14th); Pride (April 21)

Below is the schedule for this Spring’s (2014) Power of the People Labor Film Series. All three films are scheduled for 7 p.m. in White Hall Room G09, on West Virginia University’s Downtown Campus in Morgantown, WV. As always, all films are free and open to the public. 

Wednesday, February 19, 2014: 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002). Directed by Robert Townsend and featuring a strong cast including Emmy winners Andre Braugher and Charles S. Dutton, this film depicts the struggles of A. Philip Randolph and other activists to form the black-led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the 1920s.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014: Norma Rae (1979). Starring Sally Field, who won the Best Actress Oscar for the title role, and directed by Martin Ritt, this Oscar-nominated film focuses on the efforts of a young mother and leader at work to unionize a southern textile. It is a fictionalized version of the long and difficult battle to unionize the J.P. Stevens textile mill in North Carolina in the 1970s.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014: Cradle Will Rock (1999). Based on actual events, Cradle Will Rock recounts Orson Welles’s endeavors to stage a play about a steel strike in mid-1930s Manhattan, and the great resistance to suppress it. Weaving together radical politics with New Deal programs (such as the Federal Theater Project to which many historical figures in the film belonged) and a period of heightened labor unrest, it is directed by Tim Robbins and boasts a star-studded cast including Hank Azaria, Vanessa Redgrave, John Cusack, Ruben Blades, Susan Sarandon, and Bill Murray.

Jason Kozlowski, Assistant Professor
Institute for Labor Studies and Research
West Virginia University
719 Knapp Hall
P.O. Box 6031
Morgantown, WV 26506-6031
(304) 293-5790
Jason.Kozlowski@mail.wvu.edu

Dublin, Ireland
(2026) Inactive. 

Voluntary organisation dedicated to showing progressive films from all over the world. Struggles for people’s rights, for the rights of workers, of immigrants, of women, for national liberation and for social justice are some of the themes of the outstanding films we have selected. Showings—usually one all-day show per month—were at the New Theatre in East Essex Street (43 East Essex Street • Dublin 2)

http://www.progressivefilmclub.ie/
NOTE: bad website (2/2026)
Robert Navan microbe@eircom.net

*while not exclusively a labor film festival, the Progressive Film Club’s focus on progressive issues ensures that many of its screenings include films about work, workers and workers issues.

Update (2022): connected to London Labour Film festival; check there or on the Facebook page below.
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4-9 NOVEMBER 2017
LIVERPOOL, England

The North West Labour Film Festival 2017 celebrates national and international cinema on the big screen from Saturday 4th November through to Thursday 9th November in Liverpool. We provide quality entertainment with social awareness, offering a bright and sensitive look at the world of work.

Our Labour Film Festivals are supported by the TUC and the trade union movement in the UK including our main sponsors Unite and Unison.

Our festival encourages creativity and supports the dissemination of audiovisual works that contain stories about work and workers, giving importance to their point of view of the world and to social issues affecting their daily lives, those of their families and the communities to which they belong.

info@londonlabourfilmfest.com
info@northwestlabourfilmfest.com

Latest: July 5-8, 2012

Founded: 2012

Synopsis: A celebration of Labor through Film, Art & Music in venues throughout Downtown San Pedro, featuring works by artists in and about the Labor Movement. All events are open to the public.

Contact: sanpedrolaborfest@gmail.com
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(310) 941-7395

Latest: October 4-6, 2019; 17th annual

Founded:
Venue: Madrid, Spain
Contact: cursosateneo1mayo@gmail.com

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