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DC Labor Film Fest

Organized and presented by the Metropolitan Washington Council of the AFL-CIO, the Debs-Jones- Douglass Institute and the American Film Institute, the 2010 DC Labor FilmFest boasts an array of new films and beloved classics about work and workers, from the American office to the far-flung factories of the global economy. For more information, visit dclaborfilmfest.org	Union members: show your union card at the box office for discounts on regularly-priced shows! The Festival Runs from October 12th - 19th

Director Doug Liman (THE BOURNE IDENTITY, MR. & MRS. SMITH) weaves the real-life twists and turns of the Valerie Plame case into an intriguing political thriller in FAIR GAME, which will have its DC premiere at this year's DC Labor FilmFest. The October 19 Closing Night screening is part of the Labor FilmFest's second annual Whistleblower Series. Other Films include:

- OFFICE SPACE: A perennial and outrageously funny DC Labor FilmFest favorite; will once again feature a raffle of OFFICE SPACE paraphernalia, including Milton's precious red Swingline stapler.
- THE INFORMANT! (Whistleblower Series) Darkly comic film from Steven Soderbergh stars Matt Damon as real-life whistleblower Mark Whitacre, who exposed the lysine price-fixing conspiracy of the mid-1990s, which led to the first successful prosecution of an international cartel by the U.S. Department of Justice in more than 40 years.
- FAST FOOD NATION: indie filmmaker Richard Linklater takes a dramatic approach to examining the fast food industry's health risks, environmental and social consequences.
- OUTSOURCED: perhaps the only romantic comedy about outsourcing: telemarketer Todd (Josh Hamilton) sells cheap novelty products over the phone from Seattle, until he and his entire Order Fulfillment department are outsourced to India.
- GIGANTE: a supermarket security guard in a Montevideo suburb passes the time working the graveyard shift by watching videos, listening to music, doing crossword puzzles and watching Julia, a young cleaning woman, on the security camera monitors.
- LOUISE-MICHEL: when the women workers of a provincial toy factory show up one day to find the factory empty, its machinery and management nowhere to be seen, they decide to pool their paltry compensation money to hire a hit man to kill the company's owner.
- THE MAID: After 23 years working as housemaid in an upper class Santiago, Chile household, Raquel (Catalina Saavedra) is as much a part of the Valdez family as the wife, husband, and kids she lives with and looks after. But the years of servitude have taken the toll on her; a deeply emotionally satisfying glimpse into the lives of those who are seen but never heard.