The curators and filmmakers from the thematic program discuss the collision of themes in their films on work and labor: immigration, outsourcing, and workers’ rights. Especially in the current economic climate, jobs and work are at the forefront of our psyche. How does the work we do shape our identity? What does it mean to be a part of an increasingly globalized economy? Can reviewing our past help frame our present? The panel conversation will follow a screening of curators Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s most recent film, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant.

Moderated by curators Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert. Panelists include filmmakers Stewart Bird (The Wobblies), Stephanie Black (H-2 Worker), Heather Courtney (Los Trabajadores), Vicky Funari (Live Nude Girls UNITE!), Micha X Peled (China Blue), Gordon Quinn (Taylor Chain), and George Stoney (The Uprising of ‘34).