Congratulations to Our Season 13 Winners!
Submissions for 2025 will re-open in December
Best Documentary Feature
Gumbo Coalition - Directed by Barbara Kopple
Honorable Mention • Documentary Feature
Limits of Europe - Directed by Apolena Rychliková
Audience Favorite (Feature)
No Somos Máquinas (We Are Not Machines) - Directed by Mark Nistico
Audience Favorite (Short)
The Cooperators - Directed by Ruth Sergel
Best Narrative
Artificial - Directed by Jeffrey Carrillo Proano
Honorable Mention • Narrative
The Fuse - Directed by Kevin Haefelin
Best Documentary Short
Out Of Office - Directed by Will Roberts
Honorable Mention • Documentary Short
Adidas Owns the Reality - Directed by Keil Orion Troisi and Igor Vamos
Best Film from the Frontlines
Stories From the Heart of Public Education: Nicole - Directed by Thien Dinh
Special Jury Award (Feature)
Fire Department, Inc. - Directed by Colin C. Hughes
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About the Festival
The Workers Unite Film Festival, now in its 13th 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.
WUFF13 Submissions for 2024 Are Now Closed
Acceptance notices went out in August and September. The festival screens 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. We will post next season’s due dates in November/December after this festival ends.
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 University.