DC Labor FilmFest Preview: Brother Outsider, Brooklyn Castle, The Waiting Room
Monday, October 7, 2013
(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.