Program 22: Shorts Replay Block and Essential Worker Series - Frontlines

I LOVE STAMPS - A profile of Carolin Herrera Ward, USPS Window Clerk. From the project, "The Song of the Essential Worker". (8 min, 2022, Directors: Zoe Beloff and Eric Muzzy)

A FUTURE WE DIDN'T HAVE - A profile of Edwiges Luna Osorio, Tamale Maker and Vendor. From the project, "The Song of the Essential Worker". (4 min, 2022, Directors: Zoe Beloff and Eric Muzzy)

IT'S NOT OVER YET - A profile of David Van De Carr, Respiratory Therapist at Mount Sinai Morningside Medical Center and 1199 SEIU union member. From the project, "The Song of the Essential Worker". (12 min, 2022, Directors: Zoe Beloff and Eric Muzzy)

THE GLOVE - When a 14-year-old immigrant gets a job as a house cleaner, she is faced with the perplexing habits of her American employer. (4 min, 2022, Director: Mimi Chakarova)

CHINESE LAUNDRY - Mong just moved to New York from China to take over the family laundry shop. Both her professional and social lives are affected when she finds out about an affair happening in the building where she works. (18 min, 2022, Director: Giorgio Fontana)

STARBUCKS IS USING ABSURD EXCUSES TO FIRE UNION LEADERS - Starbucks is firing union leaders during elections for increasingly preposterous reasons. One union leader was fired for showing up to work too early. Another was terminated after her co-worker refused to return from lunch. The reasons only get more absurd from there. (6 min, 2022, Produced by the More Perfect Union YouTube Channel)

INSIDE AMAZON LABOR UNION: HOW WORKERS TOOK ON AMAZON AND WON - We followed the union drive at Amazon's Staten Island JFK8 warehouse from day one. Exclusive footage from inside the early days of the Amazon union drive reveals how workers beat the odds and successfully won the first Amazon union in U.S. history. Amazon Labor Union fed workers, paid bills, stood up in anti-union meetings, and even gave out freed weed. (6 min, 2022, Produced by the More Perfect Union YouTube Channel)

FEED/BACK - When the restaurant that built them starts to shut them down, one artificially intelligent service bot decides to assemble a body that can house their consciousness permanently. Intercut throughout the narrative are interviews with former food service workers in Washington, DC. The interviews and the narrative work together to weave a story of freedom from the threads of real and speculative events. (23 min, 2022, Director: MacKenzie River Foy)