Just finished screening The Hottest August (Brett Story, 2019) as the first film for my ecocinema class and goddamn that's a great movie. This is the fourth(?) time I've seen it and each time it gets better and better--more alive, and more urgent. Hope the students felt the same.

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

My films featured on Criterion this August

Tuesday nyc come celebrate the publication of Chris Marker IMMEMORY: Gutenberg Version at Light Industry see you there!

we won a post-production award at Cannes Docs for my film on John Berger! (film is not done - but we're in the edit!) variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Second preview piece from the forthcoming issue of World Records, co-edited by LaCharles Ward, Sasha Crawford-Holland, and myself. Brett Story asks "Can injustice be answered by catharsis? In other words, is catharsis.. itself just, and thus a right?" worldrecordsjournal.org/no-justice-n...

Trump is about to do for NPR and PBS what he did for Canadian liberals...

“Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet.”

This session alone, 10 states have tried or are currently trying to classify having an abortion as homicide. In most of these states, individuals found guilty of murder can be eligible for the death penalty. Whether these bills pass immediately isn't the point—it's about shifting the Overton window:

NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist

read a biography today of a major art critic and museum director from the 1930s who was also a member of something called the "Vigilance Committee of anti-fascist intellectuals". Meanwhile to be a careerist in our own era is to demonstrate cowardice and be rewarded for it.

"There is no appeasing a political force like the Trumpian right, intent on a program of destruction. & there is no appeasing a nationalist Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees antisemitism in every call for Palestinian freedom. " [email protected] theintercept.com/2025/03/08/c...

There's a lot of confusion swirling so it may help to explain that the below is actually fairly normal following an ICE arrest. ICE often transfers people to the deep South where some of the largest detention centers are located, and the ICE Detainee Locator system can take up to 24 hours to update.

We have to stand together for Mahmoud Khalil; liberal, leftist, Never Trump conservatives if we can get them; or we're all dead Do people get this? It does not matter what your stance on the Gaza protests are/were It will not stop here

Being anti-trans is really an elite phenomenon that elites are mistakenly convinced is widely shared.

Join us for a screening of Union – the Sundance-winning doc on the first unionized Amazon workplace in the U.S. Directed by Brett Story & Stephen Maing. Tues, March 18 at 7pm 100 McCaul, Room 190 Free admission Q&A with Story after the film! Learn more: www.ocadu.ca/events-and-e...

Ok i love that no other land won and ethic cleansing was denounced at the oscars, but also that shout out to cafe oto!!!

The NO OTHER LAND team on the red carpet 😭

Looking for a good critical history of "terrorism" or the concept of the "terrorist" for research purposes. Recommendations?

Louisiana has already arrested the mother of the minor here simply for helping her daughter obtain abortion pills. A felony charge with jail time. That should be a scandal and an outage too, but it’s becoming normal in post-Roe America. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-abo...

I was on CBC radio yesterday to discuss Amazon's decision to close it's only unionized workplace in Canada and what we learned making @unionthefilm.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Good time to be an anti-fascist, and a race traitor, and a class traitor, and a feminist.

Amazing film at Hot Docs en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(... Director Brett Story answering questions. See the film Amazon doesn’t want you to see.

With less than 24 hours with President Biden in office, there is still time for him to grant Leonard Peltier clemency. ictnews.org/opinion/pres...

Moving reportage from Jabalia on.ft.com/3WkXEPa

Why are distributors shying away from political films? Or, at least, left-wing ones? www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Really glad to see this piece. The conversation has been happening privately, and I've been waiting for a good culture journalist like @antkaufman.bsky.social to write something up.

This reporting is so utterly damning. www.propublica.org/article/bide...

Check out our new short film LOCAL ONE (dir. Stephen Maing, @brettstory.bsky.social) following the historic holiday Amazon strikes led by the Amazon Labor Union & @teamsters.bsky.social. Watch now on @fieldofvision.bsky.social! fieldofvision.org/shorts/local...

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

I loved talking to @jasonmcbride.bsky.social for this piece. Thank you!

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It's a good day to skip the giant streaming platforms that keeping blocking incredible political documentaries and watch the brilliantly made Union. It's available to rent for the next two weeks - or to organize a community screening around unionthefilm.com.

Steve and I talk about @unionthefilm.bsky.social on the Adam Conover podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcM_...

The story of how we got here: Union, by @brettstory.bsky.social, is short-listed this week for an Oscar for Best Doc. unionthefilm.com

And audiences feeling the pinch of the Canada Post strike will find a timely tale in UNION as it chronicles the plight of Amazon workers rallying for labour rights in the face of a Goliath povmagazine.com/union-review...

Ok we are all allowed to go back to x just for one day only it is very funny right now

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

Another top ten of 2024! Thank you to Alison Willmore, who describes @unionthefilm as "a doc that is stylistically haunting, politically urgent, and guided by its subjects’ journeys rather than a predetermined structure" www.vulture.com/article/best...

Unmarked graves likely located at Lejac residential school - now the site of a pipeline industrial housing camp www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

For obvious reasons, it’s the perfect day to watch @brettstory.bsky.social’s UNION, a character-driven, suspenseful David and Goliath film about NY workers organizing at Amazon. Streaming through Tuesday only. Up for a Gotham award. See if it changes how you shop.

Starting today, @brettstory.bsky.social's excellent doc UNION is available for a special 5-day VOD viewing window. And for background, you can read my story after the Sundance premiere about how many critics got the film wrong: anthonykaufman.substack.com/p/why-film-f... gathr.com/vod/15c99c8b...

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...