Filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar made 'American Factory' about an Ohio factory taken over by a Chinese company, and then Barack and Michelle Obama signed on produce it via Netflix.
When General Motors shuttered its factory outside of Dayton, Ohio, in 2008, filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar — who documented the plant’s closing in their Oscar-nominated short “The Last Truck” — thought that was the end of yet another sad story of America’s industrial decline. But as it turned out, life had other plans.
Culled from 1,200 hours of footage, the resulting film, “American Factory,” went on to win the U.S. documentary directing award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and drew the attention of a pair of newcomers to the film world: Barack and Michelle Obama.Along with Netflix, with whom they announced a partnership in 2018 to produce films and series, and Participant Media, the Obamas decided to throw their weight behind the movie.
When we started, you try to think, What are we trying to follow? We had the question: Will this endeavor succeed? Then when we thought about that, it’s like: Well, what does success mean — and for who? For the workers on the floor, it’s a different success than for the owner or the management.You never know how a movie is going to turn out when you’re in the early days, but we knew this was a big story and that we were lucky to be chasing it.
Because of the subject matter, some people have compared “American Factory” to Michael Moore’s 1989 documentary “Roger & Me.” But it’s obviously a very different type of film.I love Michael Moore. He kind of busted open the documentary form. He was like the punk-rock kid who crashed the party and brought humor into what we do, and I really admire him. But that’s just not our kind of work.
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