2020 Academy Award Winner
Independent Spirit Award Best Documentary | Gotham Award for Best Documentary
Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Directing Award: U.S. Documentary
International Documentary Association - Directing Award

American Factory

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

YEAR:
2019
DIRECTORS:
Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert
PRODUCERS:
Steve Bognar, Julia Reichert, Julie Parker Benello and Jeff Reichert
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
Diane Weyermann and Jeff Skoll, Participant Media