The Gig is Up

A disturbing look at the gig economy on four continents. It's a punchy and anger-inciting doc by Shannon Walsh

The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the ways that essential workers are underappreciated and underpaid, and The Gig Is Up makes brutally clear that we're in a state of emergency on this front.

A spry, engaging doc with more breadth than depth in its examination of the effects of the exploding gig economy on gig workers worldwide.

An expos of whats wrong with gig work, and why the promise of more freedom for workers has largely been broken, replaced by a dehumanizing reality.

It's never particularly smug or hectoring about it, but rather tells some compelling stories about people on that particular treadmill, in which every moment you're not working, you feel guilty that you're not.

An incisive doc about people on whom you depend but do not really see.

Canadian director Shannon Walsh delivers an eye-opening investigative documentary on the gig economy.

A timely documentary which highlights the inequalities and abuses in our increasingly tech-savvy job markets.

The Gig Is Up couldn't be more timely as the COVID-19 pandemic has many workplaces reconsidering what the "new normal" will be: it raises questions that audiences need to answer not tomorrow, but today.

A brisk whirlwind tour of this often invisible work force.