156. Behind the velvet curtains with AFI’s Todd Hitchcock - Labor Goes To The Movies

Chris talks with Todd Hitchcock, Director of Programming at the <a href='https://afisilver.afi.com/silver/'>American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center</a>. In Part 1 of our chat with Todd, he talks about how AFI has kept the movies coming during the pandemic, and we get a peek behind the glitz and glamour of attending star-studded film festivals at Cannes, Berlin and Toronto, as Todd reveals some of the workaday details of being a film programmer at one of the nation’s premier movie art houses.   Today’s show also includes the trailer for <a href='https://afivsr.eventive.org/films/dc-labor-film-fest-work-songs-60832f4e4224b7005371e418'>Work Songs</a>, which opens the <a href='https://tinyurl.com/DCLaborFilmFest2021'>2021 DC Labor FilmFest</a> this week.   The new film <a href='https://www.filmadria.com/haymarket'>Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle</a> is being <a href='https://watch.eventive.org/workersunitefilmfest2021/play/6075b5b2ea0517007104100d'>screened free online</a> now by the Global Labor Film Festival Network, and includes two online discussions with director Adrian Prawica on May Day, Saturday, May 1, one at <a href='https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/bit.ly/HaymarketQA'>8p Eastern time</a> with labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steve Brier(CUNY School of Labor), the other at <a href='http://bit.ly/RWMayDay'>8p Pacific time</a> with Labor Studies Professor Dana Frank (UC Santa Cruz).   Produced by Chris Garlock. Video edited by Evan Papp.   @AFISilver @dclabor @LaborHeritage1 @GeorgetownKILWP @JosephMcCartin @stevebrier @DCLaborFilmFest @LaborRadioNet <a href='https://manage.wix.com/dashboard/de9717d1-65cd-4350-9563-7fef49b4b23d/blog/published/search/.hash.laborradiopod?referralInfo=sidebar'>#LaborRadioPod</a> <a href='https://manage.wix.com/dashboard/de9717d1-65cd-4350-9563-7fef49b4b23d/blog/published/search/.hash.adrianprawica?referralInfo=sidebar'>#AdrianPrawica</a>