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Barbara Kopple
US 2026 110'
⚬ Human Rights
After HARLAN COUNTY, USA, and AMERICAN DREAM, two landmark cinéma vérité documentaries, UNION TOWN will be the third film in Barbara Kopple's triptych on labor rights. Set against the backdrop of New York City, the film follows delivery industry workers as they take on some of the world's most powerful corporate giants, touching on the challenges, joys and human elements that make this movement possible.
Director | Barbara Kopple |
Producers | Hannes Hosp, Barbara Kopple, Peter Palandjian |
Executive Producers | Peter Palandjian, Glenn Rigberg |
Production Company | Cabin Creek Films |
Cinematography | Timothy Grucza, Hannes Hosp, Rachel Beth Anderson |
Editor | Francisco Bello, Hannes Hosp, Deborah Peretz |
Music | Jongnic Bontemps |
| Runtime | 110' |
| Spoken Languages | English |
| Production Countries | USA |
Barbara Kopple has dedicated her career to directing and producing powerful and emotionally affecting films about important social issues – including labor justice, freedom of speech, transgender acceptance, and anti-war advocacy – alongside a wide range of musical documentaries. She is the two-time Academy Award winning director of Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) and American Dream (1990). In 1991, Harlan County, U.S.A. was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and designated as an American Film Classic. The director founded the New York-based production company Cabin Creek Films and her projects have frequently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and DOC NYC. She most recently completed the documentary Gumbo Coalition (2022) for HBO Max, about national social justice leaders Marc Morial and Janet Murguía; the film had its World Premiere at DOC NYC, as the festival’s Centerpiece film, and its European premiere at IDFA. Previously, she also directed Desert One (2019), about the daring and ill-fated US Special Ops mission in the midst of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, which is currently available to stream on HISTORY. New Homeland (2018), a film which documented the experiences of refugee children from Syria and Iraq at a summer camp in the Canadian wilderness; A Murder In Mansfield (2017) examined the murder trial in the nineties, where a son testified against his father for the murder of his mother. Other recent films include This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous (2017), Miss Sharon Jones! (2015), Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation (2013), Running from Crazy (2013), and Shut Up and Sing (2006). For her continued work across nonfiction and narrative film & TV, she has been recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, the National Society of Film Critics Award, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival Irene Diamond Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award and more. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Director’s Guild of America, New York Women in Film and Television’s Honorary Board, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
