The Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival takes place each year in California's central coast communities in and around Santa Cruz.

Reel Work presents cultural events, bringing together award-winning documentary film producers, workers, activists, students, and the public with the goal of increasing community awareness of the central role of work in our lives, to discuss economic and global justice issues, and to bring alive the history and culture of the labor movement in the US and abroad. Reel Work highlights how workers and community members band together to achieve justice and dignity in the streets, fields, and workshops.

Cinematic representations of labor each year include local and international works, world premieres as well as classics. Reel Work inspires festival participants to join in the struggle for worker rights locally, nationally and globally to achieve social justice and international solidarity.

The Enduring Legacy of Howard Zinn: "The People Speak" at Reel Work | Interview with Rogelio Martinez Saldana

4/25 @ 12pm: Food Inc | 4/25 @ 7pm: Brother Can you Spare a Dime? | 4/26 @ 7pm: Two documentaries on the economy | 4/27 @ 7pm: Workers & Climate | 4/28 @ 7pm: The People Speak, a tribute to Howard Zinn | 4/30 @ 8pm: The Garden | 5/1 @ 4pm: May Day Parade and Sing-along | 5/2 @ 7pm: Watsonville on Strike | 5/3 @ 7pm: Heart of the Factory | 5/4 @ 7pm: Why Are We in Afghanistan | 5/5 @ 7pm: Bound For Glory