How can film screenings become the welcoming spaces organizers need: places where people feel invited in, and leave feeling like they belong? In this conversation, Working Films’ Director of Campaigns and Strategy, Andy Myers, chats with Daniel Solorzano with Amanecer in El Paso, Texas and Warren Tidwell with Alabama Center for Rural Organizing and Systemic … Continued
Cucalorus Film Foundation, Working Films and DAWG are excited to announce the 2026 Works-in-Progress Lab Cohort! The WiP Lab is an immersive laboratory supporting social justice documentaries with a focus on Black storytelling. The program fosters a tight-knit community of peer support, where facilitators and mentors guide filmmakers in providing constructive feedback on each other’s works-in-progress. This year’s mentors are filmmakers and WiP … Continued
May Day is coming up! For those of us raised on a lifetime of apolitical Labor Days in the US celebrated in early September, it may come as a surprise that International Workers Day, actually falls on May 1st, a.k.a. May Day. It traces its origin to the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago, where police … Continued
With mounting attacks on our most vulnerable communities, resources pulled away from the frontlines, and major cuts to public media, organizers and activists are stretched thin. In this climate, grassroots organizers’ need to build relationships and mobilize their communities for change. At a time of digital overload, unplugging and coming together IRL has become one … Continued
Our friends at We Count!, along with Dēmos, and Partners for Dignity and Rights, just released a report that exposes the exploitation underpinning the $50 billion US houseplant industry, The Human Cost of House Plants: Labor Conditions of Florida’s Plant Nursery Workers The report details the pervasiveness of poverty wages, dangerous working conditions, widespread sexual … Continued
Now in its eighth year, Working Films’ Impact Kickstart resources underrepresented documentary filmmakers to develop and implement impact campaigns that meaningfully engage audiences, partners, and supporters. This year, three incredible film teams have been selected to receive $20,000 each in impact campaign funding, along with in-kind partnership and strategy development from Working Films, and participation … Continued
In case you haven’t heard, the “Red Cup” season looked a little different this holiday season. Starbucks workers across the country are on strike. Starbucks Workers United (SBWU), the union representing workers at over 600 stores nationwide, has walked off the floor during the company’s busiest season. Their goal? To protest illegal union-busting and secure … Continued
Working Films was founded on the premise that Story Leads to Action. And for 25 years, we’ve made that tagline a reality by building trusting relationships between filmmakers and organizers, ensuring that when the lights come up after a film, audiences have meaningful ways to plug into efforts for change. Two and a half decades … Continued
We are excited to announce the 8 organizations selected to participate in Putting Films to Work, a year-long training institute for Georgia-based nonprofits that will leverage the power of documentary media to advance their organizing, educational, and advocacy goals. The program is designed to help organizations embrace nonfiction film as a critical resource and a … Continued
IMPACT COORDINATOR Working Films seeks a passionate, well organized, smart and creative Impact Coordinator to plan and execute grassroots, film-driven organizing campaigns and various aspects of our filmmaker services. Working in collaboration with Working Films’ campaign staff, as well as our network of national, state, and local allies, the Impact Coordinator will ensure our campaigns meet the … Continued