Call Me Intern
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Unemployed and frustrated, David and Nathalie set out to land an internship so they can examine the system from the inside in an act of guerrilla film-making. After David accepts an internship at the United Nations, they move into a small blue tent on the Geneva lakefront and begin documenting his unpaid intern experience. Their action sparks a global press storm, challenging their roles as filmmakers. Meanwhile, Kyle interns for Warner Music while living in a homeless shelter in New York City and Marisa works as an unpaid intern for Obama’s re-election campaign, fending off unwanted sexual harassment from her supervisors. 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. Their individual actions give visibility to a growing intern movement. Their journeys reveal the motivations and pressures that lead so many millennials to work for free while we discover how wide the internship phenomenon has spread.

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