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DRIVER

(Nesa Azimi, 2024)

Nesa Azimi in person

Midwest Premiere

Info & Tickets

A qoman stands next to a semi truck with her hand in the air. She appears to be yelling.

Oct 18, 2024 7:30 PM

Film/Video Theater

$8 members and adults 55 and over
$10 general public
$5 students

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Ride along with Desiree Wood and her community of long-haul women drivers as they take on an industry that demands power and profits over safety and security.

After losing everything, Desiree Wood gets a second lease on life as a long-haul truck driver. Using an intimate and immersive approach, DRIVER captures Wood’s experience within a system that routinely promises and denies workers their safety and autonomy. Alongside an irreverent group of women truckers, Wood struggles to balance the demands of the job with her ambitions as the founder of labor organization REAL Women in Trucking. In a rapidly disappearing American labor landscape, Wood and her sisterhood of truckers are fueled by a gallows humor and fiery outrage as they rally against the crushing forces of an industry that is indifferent to their survival. (90 mins., DCP)

See the complete Unorthodocs 2024 lineup.

IMAGE CAPTION
DRIVER, courtesy of the filmmaker.

"Eye-opening."

Stephen Saito, The Moveable Feast

Tag(s)

Unorthodocs 2024 is part of the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial: backstories.

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council 
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services 
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle