UNION (2026) 
Producer, Post Supervisor, Impact Producer


Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark 
on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

AwardsNominee: Emmy Award, Best Documentary Feature
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

Select PressThe New York Times, Best Movies of 2024
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?

FestivalsSundance Film Festival
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 Festival
Martha’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

CreditsDirected & Produced by: Stephen Maing, Brett Story
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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©2026 Mars Verrone