Who Moves America
The film reveals the pressures on delivery drivers and logistics workers who keep cities—and the country—moving, capturing their fight for fair pay, safer conditions, and dignity in work often taken for granted.
Description
Who Moves America explores the lives of UPS Teamsters facing long hours, unsafe conditions, and relentless physical demands. The film reveals the pressures on delivery drivers and logistics workers who keep cities—and the country—moving, highlighting the stakes behind everyday services often taken for granted. Through intimate portraits and on-the-ground reporting, the documentary showcases the power of collective action, capturing organizing efforts led by union leaders as they negotiate fair pay, safer working conditions, and job security for members of North America’s largest labor organization. By tracing the strategies, struggles, and solidarity of these workers, Who Moves America illuminates the human backbone of modern commerce and offers a vivid, urgent portrait of labor in motion—a story of resilience, organizing, and the fight to reclaim dignity on the job. —Jessie Fairbanks
Biographies
Yael Bridge is a documentary filmmaker who has an MFA in documentary film from Stanford University and an MA in media studies from the New School. She made her feature directing debut with The Big Scary ‘S’ Word (2020). Who Moves America is her second feature. She has also made a number of shorts, among them The Habitat Game (2014), When We Fight (2022), and The Last Jews of Guantanamo (2025).
