Partners
2025
Release Year: 2025
Country: United States
Director: Chris Sessions
Editor: Chris Sessions
Producer: Chris Sessions, Hillary Demmon
Cinematography: Donald Borenstein, Michael Sanabria, Chris Sessions
With the support of Working Films
Associate Producers: Michael Sanabria, Donald Borenstein
When a group of baristas in Buffalo, New York announce their intention to start a labor union, Starbucks responds with an elaborate, illegal anti-union attack.
Featuring on-the-ground footage from workers and organizers, Partners takes us to the front lines of the historic union campaign that catalyzed America’s Gen Z labor revival.
GALLERY
About the directors
Chris Sessions is a labor-focused documentary filmmaker and video journalist. Chris previously spent 8 months in Birmingham, Alabama documenting the historic 2021 Amazon fulfillment center union election which was held there.
Chris’ videography from the campaign has been used by outlets from the 1619 Project to CNN Business, and in several of the first videos released by news outlet More Perfect Union. Chris also provided breaking on-the-ground video coverage of the 2021-2023 Warrior Met Coal Miners strike.
He has filmed and produced videos for the Rochester Regional Joint Board of Workers United, MeansTV, The Real News Network and the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union Mid-South Council. Chris is a graduate of the Purchase College film conservatory.
