Latest: September 2015? 
Venue: New South Wales
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Australian International Labour Film Festival (outdated)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
Latest: April 2017
Founded: 1990
Venue: The Pump House, Homestead, PA
Website
NOTE: (2022) No screenings currently schedule. Check website above for updates.
Most recent screening: Aliquippa: The Union Comes to “Little Siberia.” April 22, 2017
Click here for current calendar
The Battle of Homestead Foundation (BHF) is a diverse organization of citizens, workers, educators and historians. It’s purpose is to preserve, interpret, and promote a people’s history focused on the significance of the dramatic labor conflict at Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1892. While the many consequences of that tragic event persist in society, the sole existing structure of the 1892 Homestead Steel Works is the site of the battle itself, Pump House No. 1 , located in Munhall, Pa. Toward those goals and objectives, BHF was incorporated in 1997 as a non-profit corporation for charitable and educational purposes. BHF evolved from the Homestead Strike Centennial Commemorative Committee, founded in 1990.
After the dismantling of the historic Homestead Steel Works in the 1980s, then-owner Park Corporation performed restorative work on the Pump House. In 1996, BHF was formed in response to Park’s efforts, developing plans for a minimalist interpretive program for the site. Park welcomed the initiatives, and subsequent owners and developers, Continental Real Estate, also proved hospitable. Today the site is owned and benevolently operated by Steel Industry Heritage Corporation, who also offer many educational programs, tours, and events related to the Pump House as well as other local points of interest.
Since 1990, an impressive list of productions and events pertaining to the Pump House have been presented, supported, and organized by BHF.
Contact: 412-848-3079 or 724-935-2677
Charles McCollester charlie.mccollester@gmail.com
Website: http://battleofhomestead.org/events.php
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Founded: 2015 (originally the Santa Fe Labor Film Festival)
Latest festival; April 30-May 1, 2017
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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.
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, South West England
Founded: 2012
Latest Festival: 2021; October 23-24
Click here for 2021 programme.
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
*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.
Land and Freedom
Film screening and discussion
Thursday 12th February (2015) at 7:15pm
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow
NOTE: (2022) No screenings currently scheduled.
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
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Latest festival: May 9-16, 2022
Website (English)
Facebook page
Alejandra Marano alejmarano@gmail.com
Eduardo Miri emiri@construirtv.com
2025 schedule coming soon; May 1-31
Founded: 2001
Location: Metro Washington, DC
Venue: The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre in Silver Spring MD
The DC Labor FilmFest is an annual film festival dedicated to showing films about work, workers and workers’ issues. In 2014, it began anchoring the DC LaborFest, which includes labor music, art, books, history and more.
Contact:
Chris Garlock, Director
cgarlock@laborheritage.org
240-893-0304
Washington, DC 20006
United States
Website
Founded 2007; next festival (18th edition) May 2-4 2025 at the Haifa Cinematheque.
About the Festival
The Haifa Labor Film Festival has been active since 2007 to create and promote class consciousness and culture, encouraging and accompanying political action. Cinema, the most widely watched art form in the world, taught the masses to dream, and today it has become an arena for the struggle over the content of that dream. The festival, in our view, is part of the struggle to free the consciousness of the masses from economic reality and the cultural dominance of late capitalism. We strive to present a counterculture that centers on the workers, and not a culture that only presents those who control them. “Red Haifa,” the first industrial city in the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea, is the city where the working class in Israel was born. In Haifa, the first class struggles for freedom, equality, democracy and peace took place, and it continues, in our view, to be a socioeconomic and cultural avant-garde. Therefore, we chose Haifa as the physical home of our festival – from the northern periphery of “Tel Aviv State” will come the tidings of the liberation of the working person!
About the 17th Festival
This year the festival marks its 17th consecutive year in the shadow of the war that broke out across our borders on October 7th. Not only were the territorial borders of the State of Israel abandoned and collapsed on October 7th: the conflict management concept collapsed with them, social support services collapsed in the absence of sustained universal investment, and the democratic and governmental crisis we are in has deepened even further. We find ourselves forced to fight not only for the rehabilitation of our national security but also for the rehabilitation of basic life infrastructures, support, and governance. “The strength of a chain is determined by its weakest link” – on October 7th our chain was broken in quite a few places… To mend the broken links, Israeli society must embark on a long and complex journey of rehabilitation and rebuilding. Art can serve as one of the delicate tools in the work of diagnosis and mending. Therefore, this year we have chosen to screen only original Hebrew works, describing the weakest links in Israeli society and to accompany them with testimonies and insights ‘from the field’. In this way, we will make a modest contribution to the work of rehabilitation.
So, what’s at the festival?
We will express our gratitude and give recognition to the School of Audio and Screen Arts at Sapir Academic College, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. We will salute the dream of establishing a thriving film industry in Sderot, far from the borders of the center. Over the years, this dream has become a significant, vibrant institution, whose graduates form an important part of the film industry in general and the documentary film industry in particular. The school continues to create films under challenging conditions even after October 7th. As part of the tribute, we will screen the following short films before the main screenings:
The opening film of the festival is Tzipi Karlik’s “Social Workers at War” (Israel 2024). In the docu “Social Workers at War”, a shocking reality of the social workers who were the first to treat hundreds of people in heartbreaking situations is presented. They had one mission: to provide support and think in a way that was adjusted to a situation they had not encountered until October 7th. Have the long months of difficult experiences, without a permanent place and a familiar and supportive environment, affected them? To this day, social workers are constantly treating many people who need help and support. They leave their thoughts and homes aside”… After the screening, there will be a discussion with the director Tzipi Karlik and with social worker Efrat Levi, who accompanies Kibbutz Kfar Aza on behalf of the Center for Resilience Sha’ar HaNegev, and participates in the film.
The closing film of the festival is Roni Ninio’s new film “Farewell Tour” (Israel 2023). The film takes place during the Corona period and the Balfour demonstrations and follows a left-wing journalist who is labeled a “traitor” in an orchestrated campaign, not afraid to point out the good side and the bad side in Israeli politics. Dror Keren is wonderful in the lead role and the ending is a punch in the gut. After the screening, there will be a conversation with the director Roni Ninio.
Festival Team
The festival takes place thanks to the collaboration between Haifa Cinematheque and Tarbut Movement. The festival is the fruit of the labor of volunteers whose souls yearn for freedom, have not sold it for a golden calf, who still believe in man, and in his strong spirit.
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We call on and expect the Israeli government to make every effort to bring the abductees home, to reach a political settlement on our borders, to invest all the necessary resources to return the evacuees to their homes and to rehabilitate the southern and northern periphery of the State of Israel.
Click here for the 2021 Festival line-up.
Click here for the 2017 Festival line-up.
Click here for the 2014 festival line-up.
Click here for the 2012 festival line-up.
Any questions concerning the festival, please contact the festival producer: Rafi Kamhi, 0543311762, rafikom@gmail.com
Latest event: May 31, 2019
Honolulu, Hawaii
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LaborFestHawaii
May 31, 2019
8th Annual Hawaii LaborFest and our special guest Gordon Lafer (author of “The One Percent Solution”)
5:30pm: Pupus & Introductions
6:00pm – 6:30 pm: T-Shirt Theatre
6:30 – 7:00: Gordon Lafer, professor and author of “The One Percent Solution”
7:00 – 7:30: Moderated Open Discussion
7:30 – 8:00: UNITE HERE, Local 5 on past and current campaigns
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