Category Archives: A: Labor Film Festivals

As of February, 2022. If you have info about a missing labor film festival — or updated info on one of those listed below — please email streetheat@dclabor.org

Barre, Vermont: Labor Film Night at the Socialist Labor Party Hall
Bilbao, Spain: LAN Festival Audiovisual Obrero
Bristol, South West England: Bristol Radical Film Festival
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Construir Cine Film Festival
Canada: Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLIFF)
Dublin, Ireland: Dublin Workers Film Festival
Dublin, Ireland: Progressive Film Club
Haifa, Israel: Haifa International Labor Film Festival
Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir: Turkey International Labor Film & Video Festival
London, UK: London Labour Film Festival
Madrid, Spain: Muestra de Cine y Trabajo (Labor Film Program)
Malmö, Sweden: Nordic Labour Film Festival
Milan (Sesto San Giovanni), Italy: Labour Film Festival
New York City, New York: Workers Unite! Film Festival
Rochester, New York: Rochester Labor Film Series
San Francisco, California: LaborFest International Working Class Film and Video Festival
Santa Cruz, Monterey & Santa Clara, California: Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival
Tolpuddle, UK: Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival
Vicenza, Italy: Working Title Film Festival
Washington, DC: DC Labor FilmFest 

ON HIATUS/INACTIVE (as of Feb, 2022)
Dundalk, MD: Epic Moments In U.S. Workers’ History
East Lansing, Michigan: MSU Film Studies Series on “Work/Place”
Glasgow, Scotland: GMB Glasgow General Apex Branch Labor Films
Homestead, Pennsylvania: Battle of Homestead Foundation Movie Program
Honolulu, Hawaii: LaborFest Hawaii
Huntington, West Virginia: Blair 100 Labor Film Festival
Liverpool, England: North West Labour Film Festival 
London, UK: London Socialist Film Co-op
Missoula, Montana: Montana Labor Film Festival
New South Wales, Australia:  Australian International Labour Film Festival
New York City, New York: Labor Goes To The Movies
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Americans in Struggle
Pioneer Valley, MA: Pioneer Valley Labor Film Festival
San Diego, California: May Day Workers Film Festival
Santa Fe, New Mexico: New Mexico Labor Film Festival
Sao Paolo, Brazil: Brazilian International Labour Film Festival
Seattle, WA: MayWorks
Taipei, Taiwan: Taiwan International Labor Film Festival

Latest: September 20-30,2021

Founded: 2017

Venue: different locations in the city of Bilbao and the town of Bizkaia.

Contact: Itxaso Díaz, info@lanfestival.org

Website: http://www.lanfestival.org/

Facebook: @lanfestivalobrero

Updated 7/8/2021

September 6-December 6, 2018
For a complete listing of films and dates, check out the list below.
NOTE: The 2022 program does not have a work/labor focus, but may be of interest nonetheless.

FALL 2018: WORK/PLACE
The films programmed for this semester’s Film Collective explore intersections of labor and location. As residents of Michigan we all live, study, and work in a place that has been profoundly shaped by the history of industrial work and the labor movement. Our location offers a point from which to engage films, from around the world, that address how places have been defined, constructed, destroyed, or transformed by changing forms of work and by migrations of workers. The films include examples of workers stuck in place, of workers dislocated by global flows of capital, of spaces defined by gendered labor or by populations of guest workers not protected by the rights of citizenship. Forms of labor examined by the films include factory and agricultural labor, but also domestic, affective, and intellectual labor. The films may also reflect on the work of filmmaking itself—particularly in the labor-intensive fields of animation and digital effects.

FILMS:
9/6 9 to 5 (Colin Higgins, 1980)
9/13 Faces Places (Agnes Varda and JR, 2017)
9/20 Dor (Nagesh Kukunoor, 2006)
9/27 The Solitary Life of Cranes (Eva Weber, 2008) and London (Patrick Keiller, 1994)
10/4 Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012)
10/11 The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
10/18 Baran (Majid Majidi, 2001)
10/25 The Coca-Cola Kid (Dušan Makavejev, 1985)
11/1 Salt for Svanetia (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1930)
11/8 Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears (Vladimir Menshov, 1980)
11/15 The Forgotten Space (Allan Sekula, 2010)
11/29 The Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006)
12/6 The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1994)

Latest edition: October 20-21, 2017
NOTE: Regular festival on hiatus but supporting/co-sponsoring other festival events as appropriate; check the Facebook page below.

Cinema celebrating working people – solidarity with all those denied the right to work

Facebook page:
facebook.com/workerfilmfest/
@workerfilmfest

November 8-10, 2019
Western Massachusetts

Currently in the planning stage.

Pat Greenfield
patriciagreenfield@comcast.net

Latest: Fall 2017, September 12 – November 21; see below for schedule

Founded: 2011

Contact:
John Dodds, Director, Philadelphia Unemployment Project
JDoddsPUP@aol.com
215-557-0822
www.Philaup.org
Philadelphia, PA U.S.A.

“Keeping the Memory of Working-Class Struggle Alive in Philadelphia” (In These Times)

Venue: 2017 Season
Tuesdays at 6 PM
112 N. Broad St. 2nd Fl.
Films that document the struggles of Americans to win a just society!
Refreshments from 5:30 PM

Learn about some of the struggles the American people have waged over our history or continue to wage in order to expand our rights and make a more just society.

9/12- Fix it- Health Care at a Tipping Point– Documentary about the incredible drain in time and money that our multi-payer healthcare insurance causes on our system, advocating a single payer approach to health care.

9/26- A Class Apart- The little-known story of a band of underdog Latino lawyers who took a case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Latinos.

10/10- 13th – The journey from the end of slavery (13th Amendment) to the horrors of mass incarceration and the sprawling American prison industry

10/24- We have a Plan- With amazing parallels to the Bernie Sanders campaign, this is the story of socialist and author Upton Sinclair’s run for Governor of California during the Great Depression

11/7- The Time Has Come- A new sound sweeps over the Civil Rights movement as the call for Black Power emerges during a great march in Mississippi focusing on Dr. King and young Stokley Carmichael.

11/21 Mine Wars- The largest armed insurrection since the Civil War took place in WVA in the 1920s as miners fought to unionize and protect their families.
For more information contact Philadelphia Unemployment Project 215-557-0822

Sponsored by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, Philadelphia AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA, APM, PhilaPOSH, AFSCME DC 47, Neighborhood Networks, Coalition of Labor Union Women. For more information call 215-557-0822.

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