The London Labour Film Festival will be set over four days in September 2012 at the Prince Charles Theatre in Leicester Square with the finale of an outdoor screening in London Fields. The festival will screen over 14 labour feature films, as well as a selection of shorts (at the inception).
Special guests, actors, producers, directors will provide a cause célèbre. The event will be a high profile affair with lots of publicity, stimulating an interest in the labour movement more broadly, and on a cultural level, reaching out to the public with our message. The festival will help to stimulate an interest in this genre of films, and in labour film festivals throughout the UK and internationally.
The London labour film festival will join a global movement of labour film festivals.
Global Movement – Labour Film Festivals
“The primary benefit of labor film festivals to unions/the labor movement is the linking of worker struggles with the cultural community, broadening our work on issues and policy in a way that’s more broadly accessible to the general public, political leaders, the media and of course our own members”(AFL-CIO Karen Naubaum, Working America Program & Chris Garlock, Union City)
Labour film festivals feature films and video made by, for, and about the world of work and those who do it, in the UK and internationally. The films showcased are about unionised workers, as well as those not represented by unions. These film festivals encourage projects regarding any and every aspect of work, as well as issues affecting work or workers.
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