Double Oscar Winner Barbara Kopple Talks ‘Union Town’ and People Who Fight for ‘Dignity and Fairness’: ‘They Are My Heroes’

Double Oscar Winner Barbara Kopple Talks ‘Union Town’ and People Who Fight for ‘Dignity and Fairness’: ‘They Are My Heroes’ hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 30, 2026 4:26am PT Double Oscar Winner Barbara Kopple Talks ‘Union Town’ and People Who Fight for ‘Dignity and Fairness’: ‘They Are My Heroes’ By Marta Balaga Plus Icon Marta Balaga Latest Latvian Oscar Submission ‘Ulya’ Sells Wide Ahead of Opening Tallinn: ‘This Film Is a Blockbuster’ (EXCLUSIVE) 2 days ago ‘Barbara Forever’ Director Brydie O’Connor on Celebrating a Lesbian Icon Who Did It All – and Getting Support From Christine Vachon 3 days ago ‘Good Girls’ Director on Life in Girls’ Correctional Center in Poland: ‘It Damages You Even More’ (EXCLUSIVE) 4 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Barbara Kopple completes her trilogy on labor rights with “Union Town.” Following screenings at Venice and Toronto, it’s now heading to Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival , where Variety spoke to her about the film. “ Union Town ” follows U.S.

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delivery and warehouse workers employed by UPS and Amazon, as well as app-based “deliveristas,” as they fight for a better future. “I guess I’ve always been drawn to stories about people fighting for dignity and fairness in their lives,” she says.

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“When I made ‘Harlan County’ and then ‘American Dream,’ I spent many years with the coal miners and the meatpackers, and with their families. Those experiences shaped me as a filmmaker and as a person,” she adds.

“I learned so much about their courage, about what it takes for ordinary people to stand up to powerful institutions and how deeply these struggles affect entire communities. That’s what drew me back.

We’re living through another important moment in labor history.” After the pandemic, many delivery workers started to feel they were “disposable,” observes Kopple. “They were risking their lives for others, and people didn’t understand that.

They didn’t think about those who delivered their packages or worked in the warehouses. That’s one of the reasons for this film: so that people can see and feel who these workers are.

And never, ever treat them as ‘disposable’ again.” Ultimately, Kopple wanted to tell a “human story.” “I like to dig deep and really get to know people. I really love and respect them.

They are my heroes; they’re so courageous and passionate. But you don’t often get to know them,” she notes.

“Documentary filmmaking gives us a chance to spend time with people and their communities, see their lives up close and understand, in a way, the complexity of the world we’re living in.” Sometimes, it doesn’t take long to establish trust with her protagonists. “It doesn’t take long if they want to talk,” she says.

“I spend time with them so that audiences can feel what their experiences are like. I really think documentaries can create empathy.” Some of the workers she’s interviewing are honest about their disappointment in the system, and also in the American Dream.

“[One of them], William, was a musician in his home country. I think he still plays, but this is as far as he can go right now until he’s able to become a naturalized citizen, which is very difficult under our current administration, if not impossible,” she says.

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