This edition: Labor in Film: Telling Workers' Stories
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Episode Details
Original tape date: June 6, 2025. First aired: September 1, 2025.On this episode of City Works, host Laura Flanders is joined by two filmmakers, Pam Sporn and Hunter College professor Tami Gold, and Andrew Tilson, the executive director of the Workers Unite! Film Festival. The three discuss the long history of films about work and workers, and the current state of pro-worker films in an increasingly hostile political climate.
Guest List
Tami Gold Documentary Filmmaker, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College - CUNY
Pam Sporn Documentary Filmmaker, Educator, Grito Productions
Andrew Tilson Executive Director, Workers Unite! Film Festival
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