Centerpiece Screening: Union Town

DOC NYC presents the New York City premiere of Union Town (2026), directed by two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple, followed immediately by an in-person discussion and audience Q&A with the filmmaker. The 106-minute documentary screens as the Centerpiece selection of the seventeenth annual festival.

Filmed over three years, Union Town documents three concurrent labor struggles across New York City: Teamsters Local 804 members at UPS preparing a nationwide strike over pay tiers and workplace safety, warehouse employees organizing against corporate union-busting inside Amazon facilities, and immigrant app-based delivery cyclists—los deliveristas—organizing collective campaigns for living wages and baseline legal protections against tech delivery platforms including DoorDash and Grubhub. The film concludes Kopple’s documentary labor trilogy, continuing the arc of rank-and-file workplace struggle established in Harlan County, USA (1976) and American Dream (1990) to examine how today’s logistics and gig-economy workers confront multinational corporate power.

Admission is thirty dollars for the general public and twenty-five dollars for IFC Center members. Advance tickets are listed as rush only; standby tickets will be released at the box office approximately fifteen minutes before showtime based on seat availability. The SVA Theatre is wheelchair accessible, and assistive listening headsets are available upon request with venue staff.

Organized by DOC NYC. More information is available on the DOC NYC website.