Los Trabajadores/ The Workers has screened at community venues in many parts of Texas.

As part of these grassroots events, there is always a post-screening discussion, either formal, with panel members from different organizations, or more informal, as a conversation between audience members.

Ways You Can Use the Film “Los Trabajadores/ The Workers” in Your Community:

• Individuals, set up a screening in your neighborhood, at a community center, church, library or cultural arts center, to open a dialogue between community members.
• Immigrant rights groups, hold a fundraiser to raise money, or an educational forum to create awareness about an advocacy issue. Or, use it as a tool for organizing around immigrant or labor rights issues.
• High school teachers or university professors, screen it as part of your history, government, sociology, social studies, ethics, Spanish, Latino studies, or film class.
• ESL teachers, screen it for your students so they can relate some of their own experiences, or experiences of their parents, to the experiences of the people portrayed in the film.
• Neighborhood associations, plan a screening at your next monthly meeting as a tool to discuss ways of dealing with potentially divisive neighborhood issues.
• Immigrant and other social service providers, screen it for your staff at a brown bag lunch and/or for volunteers so they have a better understanding of the lives of and issues facing some of your clients.
• Libraries, hold a public screening as part of your educational efforts.
• University or school film clubs, screen and have a discussion afterwards about the practical and ethical concerns of documentary filmmaking.
• Police Departments and Companies, incorporate it into your cultural diversity training, or multi-cultural awareness activities.
  If you would like more information on setting up a community-based screening in your neighborhood, or through your organization, school, or church, or if you would like to obtain copies to use in your work or to show in your community, please contact the film’s Director and Producer, Heather Courtney at daylabormovie@earthlink.net.

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