28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

25. 10.–3. 11. 2024
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Union

Brett Story, Stephen Maing / United States / 2024 / Czech Premiere / 104 min.


synopsis

Amazon's Staten Island warehouse became the multinational company's first US location with its own union in 2022. The film is an observational chronicle of the years-long struggle to establish one. We watch as male and female employees face constant surveillance, threats and tens of millions of dollars worth of disparagement. They themselves have neither money nor experience. But through solidarity and determination, their position grows stronger, and they slowly becomed an equal opponent to the corporate giant. The individual steps necessary to form and sustain a union are captured in a way that makes Union both a suspenseful procedural thriller and a call to collective action.

“While the insidious nature of capitalism will always fundamentally seek to undermine unionization efforts, the workers in Staten Island proved organizing may get messy, but it is what each individual brings of themselves that makes so much possible.” — Stephen Maing

biography

Stephen Maing is an American documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and producer. His documentary Crime + Punishment (2019) won an Emmy Award and a Special Jury Mention at Sundance. His film Union, which he made with Brett Story, won the same award.

Brett Story is a Canadian filmmaker with a PhD in human geography. Her films The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) and The Hottest August (2019) have screened at numerous international festivals. She is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Toronto.

more about film

director: Brett Story, Stephen Maing
producer: Brett Story, Stephen Maing, Samantha Curley, Mers Verrone, Martin Diciccio

contact

The Film Collaborative
contactus@thefilmcollaborative.org

Screening time

Sunday 27. 10. 2024, 16:00

Horácké divadlo – Velká scéna

Saturday 02. 11. 2024, 16:30

Kino Dukla – Edison

Film at festival

premiere type:Czech Premiere
festival edition:2024
section:Testimonies
language:English
subtitles:No Subtitles
colour:Colour

Info

director:Brett Story, Stephen Maing
original title:Union
country:United States
year:2024
running time:104 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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