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DESCRIPTION:For Laborfest's Opening Night feature this year is a movie by veteran film 
 director, Ken Loach, which was voted Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival 
 2007 and Best Film, Seville Film Festival 2007.  Loach also directed Land 
 and Freedom (Best Film, European Film Awards 1995)  and The Wind That 
 Shakes the Barley (Palm d'Or Winner, Cannes Film Festival 2006).  See 
 \nhttp://www.sixteenfilms.co.uk/people/ken_loach/\n\nOn July 5 , there are 
 two screenings, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. of \nIt’s A Free World  (96 min) 2008 
 West coast Premier\nDirector: Ken Loach  (England), Writer: Paul Laverty, 
 Starring: Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek\nLoach’s film, 
 It’s A Free World, is about the business of immigrant exploitation. Angie 
 a young women with a daughter sets up an illegal employment agency for 
 immigrant workers in east London after she has been fired by her sexist 
 boss. Operating from a pub in the neighborhood, Angie and her flat-mate, 
 Rose, select casual workers from immigrants who turn up each morning 
 searching for work. With millions of migrant workers throughout the world, 
 this searing drama shows reality of  “market capitalism” and the logic 
 of ruthless entrepreneurship that is at the heart of our “free world.” 
 \n\nThis film exposes the real economic conditions in a first world country 
 for it’s migrant workers, their families and the lives of immigrant 
 workers who are helping to build and make the country run. It also looks at 
 how the reality of capitalism pits one worker against another and the cost 
 of this system on working people. In  light of the racism and race baiting 
 by the corporate controlled media against immigrant workers in this country 
 and the use of the ICE raids to terrorize workers, their families and the 
 community this look at how the system operates economically is absolutely 
 critical. The present ICE raids are now being organized not only to silence 
 the millions of immigrant workers who have marched on May Day but also to 
 smash organizing drives of unions seeking to represent these workers.  For 
 more, seehttp://www.sixteenfilms.co.uk/films/film/its_a_free_world/\nSee 
 also http://www.laborfest.net/2008schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/15/18507368.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Opening Night-It's A Free World by Ken Loach (also 9 p.m.)
LOCATION:Victoria Theatre - 2961 16th Street, at Mission, San Francisco, near 16th 
 St BART\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/15/18507368.php
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