Call me Intern
Unpaid interns strike back. Frustrated by the injustices of unpaid internships, Nathalie and David set out to land an internship so they can expose the system from the inside, in an act of millennial gonzo-filmmaking. David ends up working at the United Nations, while living in small blue tent on the Geneva lakefront. This action sparks a global press storm, challenging their role as filmmakers.
Original title: Call me Intern
International title: Call me Intern
Country: Switzerland/ New Zeland
Duration: 52/66
Language: English
Director: Nathalie Berger and Leo David Hyde
Production company: Collectibe Biévre
Filmmakers David Leo Hyde and Nathalie Berger are just graduated and unemployed. David accepts an unpaid internship at the United Nations, Geneva. They move into a small blue tent on the Geneva lakefront and begin documenting David’s intern experience. Their action sparks global press storm and challenges United Nations to revisit their unpaid internship policy.
Meanwhile, Marisa works for Obama US presidential election campaign, where her dreams become crushed because of suffering sexual harassment from her supervisors. She urges for justice, but gets none. Nevertheless, it’s a turning point in Marisa’s life, and she decides to study law in order to gain power and execute justice.
The third intern, Kyle, from Harlem, New York, dreams of music business and gets a chance as unpaid intern at Warner Music. What begins as an opportunity of a lifetime, turns into a legal david-and-goliath battle between the intern and the Fortune 500 -company.
Each of these interns faces a choice: accept the system the way it is or put their careers on the line to speak out against it?
2019 Visions Du Reel
2019 DOXA Documentary Film Festiva Vancouver
2019 Doc Edge New Zeland – Winner Best NZ Feature and Best NZ Editing
2019 Valetta Film Festival, Malta
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