"American Standoff", a documentary about the Teamster Union's long-running battle with Overnite Transportation, has been selected for the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

The Sundance Film Festival is an exhibition of work that showcases the best of independent cinema. The Film Festival views more than 3,000 submissions each year to select approximately 125 feature-length documentary and dramatic films and 60 shorts for presentation to an audience of more than 20,000. "American Standoff" will be screened at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, from January 11 through January 19.
According to the description by Lisa Viola on the Sundance website (www.sundance.org), American Standoff "puts the viewer on the front lines of one of the largest and costliest strikes in history."
The documentary was produced by Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple and directed by Mira Nair and Kristi Jacobson. Lisa Viola writes, "American Standoff is constructed in a similar way to [Kopple's] previous provocative films, focusing on the individual worker's plight. Emotionally charged and unflinching, American Standoff explores the modern-day dynamics of a fierce union battle."