Look, nobody’s saying you shouldn’t fire up the grill and find a pool to hurl yourself into this Labor Day. But if you want to get historical about it, the day is an outgrowth of the American labor movement, so after you’re done grilling and swimming, you might also take this opportunity to honor workers with this doubleheader at AFS Cinema: first a free, six-film short film showcase, then a screening of Austin filmmaker Chelsea Hernandez’s 2019 documentary Building the American Dream, which puts a personal face on the underpaid, unprotected, largely immigrant laborers making Texas’ construction boom possible. – Kimberley Jones
