Workers Unite Film Festival Team

Andrew Tilson - Co-Founder/Executive Director
Phil Hopper - Co-Founder/Secretary-Treasurer
Melanie Lindauer - Director of Screening & Submission Services, Website Manager
Maria Ramos - Special Events Coordinator
Kenneth J. Levitt - Legal Advisor
Shane Conerty & Kyra Rose - Talent Managers (Music)
Courtney Menard - Graphic Designer, Branding
Denise Shavers - Graphic Designer, Festival Guide

And special thanks to the National Writers Union for judging our screenplay contest!

Workers Unite Film Festival Advisory Board

Rachel Bernstein - Director of Labor Arts Web Museum
Gene Carroll - Co-Director, NYS AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute, Cornell University, Institute for Labor Relations, NYC
May Y. Chen - Co-Director, China Labor Studies Program, Murphy Institute/CUNY, founding member of APALA, Board President of the NYS Immigrant Action Fund. International Union VP of UNITE HERE
Esther Cohen (Advisory Board Chair) – Author, Poet, Artist, Cultural Activist (Former Director, SEIU 1199 Bread And Roses Cultural Program)
Bhairavi Desai - Executive Director, New York (& National) Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA)
Maria Figueroa – Director, Labor and Policy Research. Cornell University/Worker Institute/ILR
Liana Foxvog - National Organizer, International Labor Rights Forum
Carl Ginsburg – Director of Communications, NYSNA
Brendan Griffith – Chief of Staff, Mobilizing Director, NYC Central Labor Council
Dean Hubbard – Director, Sierra Club Labor Program, Labor Activist (NY & DC)
Kenneth J Levitt - Counsel
Jane LaTour - Author, DC37 NYC Journalist (retired), NY Labor History Association Organizer
Penny Lewis – Assistant Professor, Labor Studies , Murphy Institute/CUNY
Stephanie Luce – Associate Professor, Labor Studies, Murphy Institute/CUNY
Gregory Mantsios – Director, Murphy Institute For Worker Education and Labor Studies/CUNY
Ruth Milkman – Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, Professor and Academic Director, Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, CUNY
Ed Ott – Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Institute for Worker Education And Labor Studies/CUNY, Former Executive Director New York City Central Labor Council
Janna Pea- Publicist - Sunshine Sachs, Former Director of Communications for RWDSU
Zahida Pirani - Filmmaker, Consultant, Former Director of La Fuente's NY Civic Participation Project
Mark Plesent - Producing Artistic Director, The Working Theater, NYC
Ray Rogers - Founder and Director of Corporate Campaigns, Inc., Campaign to Stop Killer Coke
Harvey C. Sigelbaum – Senior Advisor, The Riverside Company, past President & Co-CEO, MultiPlan, Inc.; past CEO, Amalgamated Life Insurance Company, NY
Justin Thomas - Filmmaker, Activist, NYC - produced and directed, Truth Through A Lens
Richard D. Winsten – Partner, Co-Chair of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C.’s Government Relations practice
Roz Yasser – Labor/Healthcare Consultant, Former SVP EmblemHealth, Inc.
Michael Zweig – Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY, Stonybr

Workers Unite Film Festival

The Workers Unite Film Festival is a ten day long celebration in NYC of films from around the world about worker's lives and their struggles for dignity and labor rights. The festival is held the second week in May each year at the historic Cinema Village, just South of Union Square in Manhattan. New locations are added each season.

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