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DRIVER

(Nesa Azimi, 2024) 

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Midwest Premiere

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

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)

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DRIVER, courtesy of the filmmaker.

"Eye-opening."
Stephen Saito, The Moveable Feast

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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

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