DC Labor FilmFest Preview: Brother Outsider, Brooklyn Castle, The Waiting Room

Monday, October 7, 2013

DC Labor FilmFest Preview: Brother Outsider, Brooklyn Castle, The Waiting Room(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Tickets are going fast for this year’s DC Labor FilmFest, which kicks off this Friday with a free noontime screening of “BROTHER OUTSIDER” at the AFL-CIO. Bayard Rustin’s passionate belief in Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence drew Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders to him in the 1940's and 50's and in 1963, Rustin brought his unique skills to the crowning glory of his civil rights career: his work organizing the March on Washington, the biggest protest America had ever seen. But his open homosexuality forced him to remain in the background, marking him again and again as a "brother outsider." At 5p on Friday, BROOKLYN CASTLE -- the story of chess-playing students in Brooklyn -- screens at AFI in Silver Spring and at 7:15 the National Nurses Union and Fire Fighters 36 host a screening of THE WAITING ROOM, the riveting documentary exploring the complexity of the nation’s public health care system, etched in intimate detail in this poignant vérité portrait of an American public hospital and the community of patients and caregivers that intersect with it. CLICK HERE to see movie trailers, order tickets online and download a flyer.

 

Powered by Orchid Suites
Orchid ver. 4.7.6.