Brett Story’s documentary “Union” shortlisted for Academy Award

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Union, a documentary film co-directed by Assistant Professor Brett Story of the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Cinema Studies Institute, has been shortlisted in the Documentary Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards.

The film chronicles the Amazon Labor Union’s fight to unionize the JKF8 Warehouse in Staten Island, New York – the first successful union campaign at a facility operated by the online retailing giant.

Co-directed by Story and Stephen Maing, Union premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024, and has played at over a hundred international festivals. It screened at Toronto’s Hot Docs Cinema on Jan. 11.

The Globe & Mail described Union as “a political film of rare intimacy” and “quietly inspirational,” noting the film has received widespread critical acclaim.

In an interview with The Globe, Story said she was heartened by the efforts of the small group of workers who led the drive to form the union. “It’s really valuable to see people win,” she said. “Like, we don’t see people win, ever.”

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Sally Walker-Hudecki receives 2020 Patricia and Peter Shannon Wilson Undergraduate Research Prize

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Sally Walker-Hudecki receives 2020 Patricia and Peter Shannon Wilson Undergraduate Research Prize

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Sally Walker-Hudecki is one of six winners of the 2020 Patricia and Peter Shannon Wilson Undergraduate Research Prize.

A Faculty of Arts & Science student in her second year at Trinity College, Walker-Hudecki won for her research project on the technological beginnings of television, completed for the course CIN 201: Film Cultures I.

“I've been interested in expanded cinema, projection devices and all kinds of technological ephemera and apparatuses for years,” Walker-Hudecki said. “In fact, I showed my own film projection invention at Hart House's 100th anniversary in September 2019, which feels so long ago.

The cinema studies major praised the support she found at Innis Library and said she looked forward to contributing more to this field in the future.

"Sally’s triumph is to integrate her research seamlessly into a thoughtful and provocative essay that charts how emerging definitions of a novel spatiotemporal medium developed alongside technological experimentation,” said Professor Charlie Keil, her instructor for the course. “It is a vibrant demonstration of how research can breathe life into past events, providing social context, illuminating institutional pressures, and animating human agency.”

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