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Sundance-Winner Brett Story, Oscar-Nominated Yance Ford Talk ‘Union,’ Netflix’s ‘Power,’ Capitalism, Race at CPH:DOX Panel
At CPH:DOX’s Film:makers in Dialogue, Oscar-nominated Yance Ford and Sundance-winner Brett Story talked ‘Power,’ ‘Union’ and resistance.
Engaged further in the discussion with Story about race as socially constructed, and layers of whiteness among immigrants, being used to further split communities and gain control, Ford said: “I am from Long Island in New York where Irish culture is embedded to the NYPD. Equally thought-provoking and engaging in its depiction of power dynamics, “Union” was showcased at CPH:DOX in the F:ACT competition strand after its successful world premiere in Sundance where it scooped a Special Jury Award for the Art of Change. The verité doc co-directed by Story (“The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” “The Hottest August”) and Stephen Maing (“Crime + Punishment,” “The Surrender”) looks at the complexity of labor organizing, through an intimate portrait of a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island, as they take on a David vs. Goliath fight against the powerful corporation and try to unionize.
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