DC Labor Film Festival
This year's DC Labor FilmFest - set for October 13 - 19 - boasts an exciting array of new films and beloved classics about work and workers, from the American office to the far-flung factories of the global economy.
Nearly two dozen films will screen at nine different venues around Washington in the 9th annual edition of the popular film festival. Featured screenings include a special 10th anniversary showing of OFFICE SPACE with actors Stephen Root (Milton) and Gary Cole (Lumbergh) plus the Swingline red stapler raffle. THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS explores the lives of janitors as a way of investigating the difference between having an education and possessing knowledge, and will be attended by director Patrick Shen. Director Jennifer Baichwal will screen MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES, her mesmerizing documentary on the work of artist Edward Burtynsky, internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes" -- quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams -- which create stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris. Once again, there will be multiple free noontime screenings downtown, this year of WORKING LUNCH, a collection of six short and very amusing films about labor. A closing-night screening of BOUND FOR GLORYwill be followed by a free Woody Guthrie concert at McGinty's Pub by the U-Liners.
For more information, go to dclaborfilmfest.org.
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