‘Storming Caesars Palace’ and ‘The Exchange Girl’
Virtual Screenings March 29th-31st
On-Demand In Honor of Women’s History Month
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STORMING CAESARS PALACE - When Ruby Duncan loses her Las Vegas hotel job due to a workplace accident and accepts public assistance, she discovers firsthand the stigma and harassment by an over-zealous, fraud-obsessed welfare department. With Mary Wesley and Alversa Beals, Ruby creates a welfare rights group to fight for an adequate income, dignity, and justice. They, along with low-income mothers across the country, form the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) with the support of George Wiley, a chemistry professor-turned-activist and Frances Fox Piven, a radical social-scientist. Together, the mothers of the NWRO introduce a Universal Basic Income campaign with feminist Gloria Steinem at their side. Storming Caesars Palace shares the uplifting story of how a group of ordinary low-income mothers launched a revolutionary Black feminist anti-poverty movement in the 1960s & 1970s. (2022, 85 min)
THE EXCHANGE GIRL is a short documentary about women working in dangerous conditions in silent film post-production. Those positions did provide women with an entry point to film work, but those jobs suddenly disappeared with the coming of sound. The film also explores how Margaret Booth, one of the great editors, started her legendary career that way. (2023, 9 min)
This feature and short are packaged together as one virtual screening. You may watch in any order.
March virtual screenings are sponsored in part by the DC Labor FilmFest and Global Labor Film Festival Network.
Congratulations to All Season 12 WUFF Winners!
Submissions for October 2024 Now Open
Audience Favorite
There Goes the Neighborhood - Directed by Ian Phillips
Special Jury Award (Feature)
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales - Directed by Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes
Special Jury Award (Short)
Where Have All the Smiles Gone? - Directed by Anja Strelec
Best Documentary Feature
Stonebreakers - Directed by Valerio Ciriaci
Best Narrative Feature
Smile As You Kill - Directed by Michael Sarrow
Best Narrative Short
The Kill Floor - Directed by Carlos Avila
Best Documentary Short
Made In Italy (By the Chinese) - Directed by DJ Clark and Mingjie Wang
Best Film from the Frontlines
How AI Could Kill Your Favorite TV Show - Produced by More Perfect Union
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About the Festival
The Workers Unite Film Festival, now in its 12th season, is a celebration of Global Labor Solidarity. The Festival aims to showcase student and professional films from the United States and around the world which publicize and highlight the struggles, successes and daily lives of all workers in their efforts to unite and organize for better living conditions and social justice.
WUFF brings together activists, academics, and filmmakers of all ages and backgrounds for a celebration of social justice and the arts. Through dozens of documentary screenings, community forums, and interactive events across New York City, the festival provides working people with a platform to tell their stories while leading a movement for meaningful change. In recent years, we've incorporated theater production, live music, and poetry/spoken word nights. We are the largest worker solidarity themed film festival in the nation and the only one in NYC, with the full support of NYC Council Speaker Adrienne E. Adams, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, NYC Central Labor Council, National & New York State AFL-CIO, IBEW Local 3, PEF, 1199SEIU, The Puffin Foundation, The NY Labor History Association, UA Local 1 Plumbers, UFT, NYSNA, NY District Council of Carpenters, RWDSU, Workers United NY & NJ, and many more.
We are a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
Missed the Season 12 Festival? Check out these Trailer Compilations:
WUFF13 Submissions for 2024 Are Now Open
We accept documentaries, narratives, features, and shorts from all over the world (English language or subtitles), as well as screenplays. You must have an account with Film Freeway to submit your work through their website.
Promotional Videos:
2019 promo trailer documenting the variety of events during the most recent film festival.
The Workers Unite Film Festival is proud to be a part of the Global Labor Film Festival, recognized by the afl-cio. See the complete list here.
The 11th Workers Unite Film Festival was made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and administered by LMCC.
wuff is Honored to have received a 2019 Manhattan Community Award Program (MCAP) Grant from the Manhattan Borough President’s Office.
honored to have received the 2019 Harry Kelber Fellowship Award from the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies, SUNY Empire State College.