During the LaborMedia 97 conference which was held in November 1997, several hundred labor communication activists gathered and discussed the urgent issues raised by international labor communication. The conference and the festival which happened simultaneously caused huge on-going discussion and activities throughout the world and was considered as one of the most important event happened in the international labor movement during the past decade by many labor activists. (You can still get access to the document materials form LaborMedia 97, 99 web site at http://lmedia.nodong.net)

This year, Labor News Production which was one of the organizers of LaborMedia 97 and LaborMedia 99 (http://lmedia.nodong.net) will hold the fifth Seoul International Labor Film Festival with the support from KFC and KCTU. The festival will be composed of two different sections.

1, Screening
About 30 programs on the international labor movement will be screened during the festival. The Festival always have the following two major sections which are the section on the landscape of the international labor video and films, and the section on the labor video made by Korean rank and file labor video activists. There is no entry fee for the producer and no admission fee for the audience.

2, Seminars
The issues and subjects of the seminars will focus on the use of video as an empowering tool by and for the rank and file workers. This special program will be a timely opportunity to discuss the possibility of using the technological progress for the labor video activism and sharing the tactics and strategies, trials and errors of the labor video activists. Korean rank and file workers will be strong presence, but at the same time the global solidarity will be another important issue of this seminar. Also, this year the third Labormedia conference will be held just before the festival from 12th until 14th.