D.C. Labor Film Fest: In Search of Solidarity

Thursday, October 10, 2013

D.C. Labor Film Fest: In Search of Solidarity(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)"This year’s D.C. Labor Film Fest — Oct.11–17 — at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Md—is taking place at a time when even a normally impervious establishment press has noticed that most Americans’ economic lives are in a long-term decline," writes Harold Meyerson (left), editor-at-large of The American Prospect and an op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. “What films can do is show the worlds of work, of everyday lives and of struggle in ways that move, entrance, amuse and school us. The value of labor film festivals is to show us the movies that do this in ways that don’t skip over harsh realities or patronize their subjects. It’s to show us movies that go beyond Hollywood’s little-guy populism—a trope going back at least as far as David and Goliath—to, what’s been much more rare in Hollywood, an appreciation of collective action." Click here for Meyerson's complete essay on the AFL-CIO Now blog; the essay appears in the 2013 D.C. Labor Film Fest program guide, available at all Labor Film Fest screenings. Click here to see movie trailers & order tickets online, and here for a full-color downloadable flyer.

 

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