Really, how very immature and naive. Clearly the author gets paid for something.
While the experience these two had is not at all uncommon in internships (I, when first hearing about this was taken aback by the fact they were sewing, before thinking about it) that does not make it right.

The purpose of an internship is to learn about a job, or to work one’s way into or gain favor from a company. Some internships pay, in which case, sure, give that person all the menial labor you want. It still sucks but it is not slave labor. When an internship does not pay, other benefits are to be expected. When an intern can tell they are being groomed for a position they will later keep, or is learning valuable life skills that is great! But if they are being treated like trash just realize, they are PAYING for that privilege. Internships that do not pay require you take class credit as compensation. Class credit costs money, and a lot of it depending on where you go to university. Furthermore transportation or food or housing is not provided. Not that it all should be per say, but those are all expenses that the intern now has to shoulder without any income. A company should at least pay for the cost of the class credit so that the student is not PAYING TO WORK for them.

I would like to point out that I am usually very against law suits; they are often petty and over very stupid things. But a company as large as Fox Searchlight should really know better. They can afford to pay someone for craft services. I hope this case at least makes a change in the way interns are treated by companies that choose to exploit the system. No one wants to pay to be exploited.