Union

Name: Union
Director: Stephen Maing & Brett Story
Released: 2024
Duration: 104

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 unionisation battle.

Awards

Denver Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: Maysles Brothers Award: Best Documentary

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US (2025) – Winner: The Unforgettables

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US (2025) – Nominated: Outstanding Achievement in Direction

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US (2025) – Winner: Outstanding Achievement in Production

Houston Film Critics Society Awards (2025) – Nominated: Best Documentary Feature

Adelaide Film Festival (2024) – Winner: AFF Change Award

Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: Truth Award

Indie Memphis Film Festival (2024) – Winner: Best Documentary Feature

DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: White Goose Award: International Competition

Gotham Awards (2024) – Nominated: Gotham Independent Film Award: Best Documentary Feature

Sundance Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

Sundance Film Festival (2024) – Winner: U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Art of Change

Woodstock Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: Leon Gast Award: Best Feature Documentary

Woodstock Film Festival (2024) – Nominated: Best Editing: Documentary Feature

CPH:DOX (2024) – Nominated: F:ACT Award

Visions du Réel International Film Festival Nyon (2024) – Nominated: Audience Award: Grand Angle Competition

Chlotrudis Awards (2025) – Nominated: Best Documentary

Feature

International

African Premiere

Award Winning

Director(s):

Stephen Maing & Brett Story

Country:

United States

Year:

2024

Duration:

104 min

Language(s):

English

This important film chronicles the struggle of a group of Amazon employees to form a local union. Rendered in intimate cinema vérité, Union’s cast includes an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a grassroots campaign outside the fulfillment centre in New York where they work—or used to work before being let go. Led by the charismatic Chris Smalls, the diverse group start the Amazon Labor Union, embarking on a battle with one of the world’s most powerful companies. Taking on the tech giant with its unlimited resources, and without real support from national unions, the group finds the odds stacked against them. While the film focuses on the fight of the workers to unionise, it also includes some of the corporate messaging that Amazon uses to fight against unionisation. The footage is a chilling portrait of the home-shopping monolith, which is committed to satisfying the needs of its consumers while treating its own workers as replaceable humanoids.