A deliverista (Latin American food delivery worker) in New York City navigates the dinner rush driven by the ghost boss, an app called DineTime. After his beloved bicycle is stolen, he has to simultaneously pursue its return while also keeping his “status” up with the app that is constantly evaluating his performance as a worker and is ready to lower his status, and thus his earning potential, at any time. GOLD STATUS is a fun, engaging film that also documents the feeling we all have of what it’s like to live in a now where everything we do is being constantly evaluated by algorithms. It’s also a film about the precarity of the very “essential workers” that we depend on as a society to survive.