Sorry We Missed You

After winning the Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or and a lifetime devoted to the struggles of the working class, master filmmaker Ken Loach has created a tender and powerful new drama that exposes the dark side of work in these precarious economic times.

Sorry We Missed You follows the daily trials of a close-knit young family working tirelessly to recover from the financial crash and dig themselves out of mounting debt. The gig economy offers Ricky, a laborer turned truckdriver, and Abby, a home-care attendant, promises of being your own boss but delivers only low pay and cold indifference when life’s unexpected realities intervene. Though often pushed to the edge, the family finds strength in each other’s care and the precious moments together that make up their days.

On Thursday, February 13, please join New America NYC and the Sidney Hillman Foundation at Betaworks Studios for a special preview screening of Sorry We Missed You and a conversation with labor leaders and journalists that looks at the future of work in a rapidly shifting economy.

Follow the conversation online using @SWMYfilm and following @NewAmericaNYC.

Participants:

Brian Chen
Staff Attorney, National Employment Law Project

Larry Goldbetter, @lg601
President, National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981/AFL-CIO

Lauren Kaori Gurley, @LaurenKGurley
Writer, Labor Beat, VICE

Alexandra Lescaze, @ALescaze
Executive Director, Sidney Hillman Foundation