mars verrone
BUCKSKIN (2026)
Director, Producer, Editor, Composer
An experimental portrait of the filmmaker’s grandfather: Carroll B. Williams Jr., a ground-breaking African-American forester, reflecting on his work and legacy in the twilight of his life.
New Directors / New Films
Full Frame
Ashland Independent Film Festival
DOXA
SFFILM
Indie Lisboa
Mountainfilm
CinemAmbiente
Provincetown
DC/Dox
Ouray International Film Festival
Palm Springs Shorts Fest
Rooftop Films
Hudson Film Festival
BlackStar Film Festival
Mimesis Documentary Festival
Color Vérité Film Festival
Sidewalk Film Festival
Rockaway Film Festival
Drama International Short Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Festival Transnational Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
Taxi Driver, ‘Buckskin’ di Verrone: il prezioso dialogo con la foresta
The Independent, New Directors/New Films April 8-19
Cinematography: Stella Rae Binion
Editor: Mars Verrone
Sound Recording: Mars Verrone
Additional Sound Recording: Ripley Barnes
Post Sound Services: Nocturnal Sound
Re-Recording Mixer: Eli Cohn
Sound Editors: Jack Sasner, Sam Berliner-Sachs
Editorial Consultants: César Martínez Barba, Yana Nafysa Dombrowsky-M’Baye
Lab Services: Colorlab
Color Grade: Mars Verrone
WHO MOVES AMERICA (2026)
Producer
In an era of deepening inequality, UPS Teamsters stand on the brink of a historic strike. As the deadline looms, Who Moves America shadows UPS workers in New York, Kentucky, California and across the country as they navigate the challenges of building solidarity with their 340,000 co-workers.
DOC NYC Selects
Made Here Film Festival
SFFILM
Austin Film Society Doc Days
Reel Work Labor Film Festival
Flyover Film Festival
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
Jacobin, A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike
Hellgate, Can a Documentary Show Workers How to Fight Amazon and UPS?
Filmmaker Magazine, What Solidarity Really Looks Like”: Yael Bridge on Who Moves America
The Moveable Fest, True/False 2026 Review: A Movement Requires Memory in Yael Bridge’s “Who Moves America”
Produced by: Yael Bridge, Jeremy Flood, Yoni Golijov, Mars Verrone
Edited by: Thomas Niles
Consulting Editor: Viridiana Lieberman
Director of Photography: Erick Stoll
Executive Producers: Steven Bognar, Carrie Lozano, Astra Taylor
Supervising Producer: Jun Stinson Yamagishi
Co-Producers: Isabel Lyndon, Mireya Martinez, Bryn Silverman, Erick Stoll, Alisha Tejpal
Music by: Osei Essed, Santiago Arias-Rozo
For film inquiries, please contact: info@whomovesamerica.com
LOCAL ONE (2025)
Producer
The Amazon Labor Union made history in 2022 by becoming the first group to successfully unionize an Amazon warehouse in the U.S. Two and a half years later, the company has refused to recognize the union and bargain a contract. To pressure the company to start negotiating, the Amazon Labor Union, now affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, launches a nationwide strike during peak holiday shopping season.
Produced by: Samantha Curley, Mars Verrone
Executive Produced by: Charlotte Cook
Cinematography by: Martin DiCicco
Edited by: Stephen Maing
Re-recording Mixer: Brian Quill, CAS
Audio Post Services: Flavorlab
Color Grade: Stephen Maing
Assistant Editor: Damon Beirne
UNION (2026)
Producer, Post Supervisor, Impact Producer
Shortlist: Academy Award, Best Documentary Feature
Cinema Eye Honors, Outstanding Achievement in Production
Nominee: Gotham Awards, Best Documentary Feature
Sundance Film Festival, U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change
Indie Memphis Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature - Audience Award
Maysles Documentary Center, Albie Award
Adelaide Film Festival, Change Award
Anthem Gold Award, Film & Television
Hot Docs Pitch Forum (2022), Best Canadian Pitch Prize
Indiewire, The 21 Best Documentaries and Documentary Series of 2024
Rolling Stone, The 10 Best Documentaries of 2024
The New Yorker, Documentaries of Dissent
Vulture, Union Is a Reminder That Documentaries Can Be Artful As Well As Political
The Hollywood Reporter, ‘Union’ Review: A Smart, Compellingly Complicated Documentary About the Amazon Union Struggle
The Nation, Telling the Amazon Labor Union’s Story
Los Angeles Times, ‘Union’ chronicles a labor battle against Amazon, warts and all
The Nation, These Progressives Will Guide Us Through the Darkness
Indiewire, ‘Union’ Review: Documentary All-Stars Stephen Maing and Brett Story Team Up for a You-Are-There Look at the Fight to Unionize an Amazon Warehouse
The Hollywood Reporter, A Doc On How Amazon Workers Unionized Drew Critics’ Praise, But No Major Takers to Distribute
The Guardian, Strength in numbers: what have 50 years of labor union documentaries shown us?
New York Film Festival
True/False Film Festival
CPH:DOX
Hot Docs Festival
Visions du Réel
Full Frame Film Festival
Doc10 Film Festival
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Reel Work Labor Film Festival
Sheffield DocFest
Cinetopia Film Festival
DC/DOX
Docs Ireland
Phoenix Film Festival
Traverse City Film Festival
Dokufest
Ecofalante Environmental Film FestivalMartha’s Vineyard Film Festival
Oslo Pix
Workers Art & Heritage Center
Vino Verite
Camden International Film Festival
DMZ Int’l Documentary FIlm Festival
Irish Film Institute Documentary Film Festival
LETsDOK
Doctober
Bristol Radical Film Festival
Buffalo International Film Festival
Heartland International Film Festival
Unorthodocs Festival
Folkestone Documentary Festival
Teaneck International Film Festival
Leeds International Film Festival
IDFA
Indie Memphis
DOC NYC
Watch Docs
RIDM
MOMI Curator’s Choice
Backyard Docs
Hamptons DocFest
Produced by: Samantha Curley (p.g.a.), Mars Verrone (p.g.a.), Martin DiCicco
Cinematography: Martin DiCicco, Stephen Maing
Edited by: Blair McClendon, Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Stephen Maing
Music by: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Color Grade: Natacha Ikoli
DI/Finishing: Pierce Varous - Nice Dissolve
Sound Design: Eli Cohn, Jack Sasner - Nocturnal Sound
Sound Mix: Tom Ryan, Vinny Alfano, Zac Swanner - Parabolic Sound
Co-Editor: Eric Metzgar
Associate Editors: Katyann Gonzalez, Ally Southwood-Smith
Assistant Editors: Brian Johnson, Ihunmehai Isaac, Zoe Miller, Juan Galindo, Sediqua Francis, Lunise Cerin
Additional Cinematography: Emir Fils-Aime, Erick Stoll, Joseph Armario
Executive Producers: Adam McKay, Jenny Raskin, Lauren Haber, Geralyn White Dreyfous, The Villa Family, David Levine, Jessica Grimshaw, Nick Shumaker, Dawn Olmstead, Todd Schulman
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GOLDEN VOICE (2022)
Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Forty years after the Cambodian genocide, a transgender man returns to the village where he not only survived but miraculously found queer and transgender community, including the love of his life.
Festivals
Taiwan International Queer Festival
Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Cambodia International Film Festival
Out on Film, Inside Out Toronto
Gaze International Film Festival
KASHISH Pride Film Festival
Select Screenings
University of Southern California, Circa: Queer Histories Festival
Awards
Credits
Produced by: Tabitha Payne, Mars Verrone
Director of Photography: Mars Verrone
Edited by: Mars Verrone
Co-Producers: Pheung Saophorn, Pheung Sophea, Srun Srorn
Original Music by: Kei Watanabe
Additional Cinematography: Tabitha Payne, Pheung Saophorn, Pheung Sophea, Srun Srorn
Dialogue Editor & Sound Mixer: Brennan Rosset
Color Grade: Adison Oliveras
Language Services: Multilingual Connections
Additional Translations: Vilayvann Ky, Vong Madavin, Tabitha Payne, Pheung Sophea, Srun Srorn
Watch on Otherness Archive