Autlook Boards Barbara Kopple’s ‘Union Town’ Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Leo Barraclough

Leo Barraclough

International Features Editor

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Autlook Filmsales has acquired international rights to documentary “Union Town,” from two-time Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple, which will celebrate its world premiere at the 83rd Venice Intl. Film Festival in the Venice Open section, followed by its North American premiere at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.

“Union Town” chronicles the lives of essential workers in New York City’s last-mile delivery industry amid a resurgence of organized labor in the city. Interweaving struggles within UPS, Amazon and the mostly immigrant app-based bike delivery workforce, the film uncovers the human face of modern labor and organizing. Filmed over the course of three years, the film asks what solidarity means in a world divided between those who have power, and those who must fight for it.

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