American Factory
Year | 2019 |
Director(s) | Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar |
Genre(s) | Documentary |
Runtime | 115 mins |
Producer(s) | Jeff Reichert, Julia Reichert, Julie Parker Benello, Steven Bognar |
Editor(s) | Lindsay Utz |
From Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy Award®-winners Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar (“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant,” “A Lion in the House,” “Seeing Red”) comes “American Factory,” a Netflix Original Documentary presented by Higher Ground Productions and Participant Media. The acclaimed film takes a deep dive into a post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant and hires two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.