12 June, 2011A one hour selection of short films from the 2011 Global Union Film Shorts DVD was launched at the EMF Unions in Motion Films Festival in Duisburg, Germany on June 11. The DVD will be sent to film festivals world wide and is now available.
GERMANY: The Unions in Motion Film Festival screened a variety of short films and feature films related to trade unions, including a one hour selection from the 2011 Global Union Film Shorts. A number of workshops were also held on June 11 on how trade unions can produce films for the benefit of their members.
Since the festival was set in a former steel plant, a film on the HF6 blast furnace in Liege, Belgium was screened. HF6 is a documentary about the downturn affecting the steel industry and the hope, fight and victory linked to the restart of the blast furnace HF6. The 20 minute documentary Into The Graveyard on shipbreaking, submitted by The Mumbai Port Trust Dock and General Employees Union (MPTDGEU) was also featured. (http://www.imfmetal.org/index.cfm?c=25363&l=2)
A one hour selection of the Global Union Films Shorts 2011 were shown at the Unions in Motion Film Festival but the Global Union Films Shorts DVD will have a larger selection of films submitted by affiliates and independent film makers. More information on the DVD and films are also available at http://www.labourfilmshorts.org/. For copies of the DVD please contact: Cherisse Fredricks, [email protected],