Join Reel Causes at the Vancouver International Film Festival and watch our partner film: Who Moves America.

If UPS workers stop, America stops. In Who Moves America, 340,000 UPS teamsters enter a contract fight that could bring one of the world’s largest delivery systems to a halt. Director Yael Bridge follows workers in New York, Kentucky, California, and across the country during the 2023 negotiations, as drivers and part-timers organize around dangerous heat, wages, job security, and the basic right to work with dignity. The film’s title has no question mark because its answer is already clear: workers move America.

Bridge, whose previous feature The Big Scary “S” Word (2020) examined socialism in the United States, brings a clear-eyed attention to organizing as an everyday practice, compiling footage from meetings, rallies, votes, and the ordinary moments where people decide what they owe one another. Executive produced by Academy Award–winner Steven Bognar (American Factory) and produced by Yoni Golijov (Cover-Up) — both VIFF alumni — Who Moves America turns labour struggle into a human drama of risk, solidarity, and building power.

Content Considerations: Inhumane working conditions, corporate and labor tensions, workplace fatalities

VIFF runs from October 1st to 11th. Who Moves America screens:

• October 8th at 6pm at Fifth Avenue Cinema
• October 9th at 1:30pm at International Village 10