“There’s nothing that can stop our momentum.” The New York Film Festival has debuted an official trailer for a documentary film titled Union, an inside look at one of the recent labor union movements. The film originally premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (it’s excellent) and it also played at CPH:DOX, True/False, Full Frame, Hot Docs, and many other doc fests; it will next be showing at NYFF in October. A group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island challenges one of the world’s largest companies in a unionization battle. The film tells the story of the rise of Chris Smalls, an Amazon worker who founded the ALU – the Amazon Labor Union – in 2021 after being fired by Amazon. The documentary is a very powerful, vérité-style look at the way grassroots movements and small unions are confronting the modern capitalistic corporate landscape. Along with their own challenges. “The result is an immersive portrait that celebrates solidarity while acknowledging the difficult decisions & internal conflicts that make any collective action possible.” I’m glad to have seen this doc, it’s one of these films that should be shown in schools to educate every young person in America & also show them what a real leader looks like. // Continue Reading ›
