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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.
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American Factory: Directed by Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert. With Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown, Dave Burrows. In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans.
- Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
- 3 min
Jan 26, 2019 · Take the basic conceit of Gung Ho, swap in the Chinese for the Japanese and a dry-but-sincere plea for organized labor in the place of wacky comedy and you’d get something that resembles Julia...
Apr 28, 2019 · As the American workers rally and the Fuyao brass retaliates to keep the enterprise a reality, American Factory observes the futility of the American dream in a society ruled by capitalist endeavour. Touring the factory floors proves an emotional rollercoaster for a viewer as one experiences the highs and lows of the workers as they are taken ...
The film begins in 2015, when China's Fuyau Auto Glass, which makes glass for autos and trucks, opened a U.S. plant in that same abandoned factory and hired more than a thousand American workers, many of whom had never recovered from the loss of their GM jobs.
- Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
- Renee Schonfeld
- Cho Tak Wong, Robert Allen, Wong He
Aug 21, 2019 · 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.
Directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert (“Making Morning Star”), American Factory is one of five nominated films for Best Documentary at the 2020 Oscars and the first Netflix film produced by Barack and Michelle Obama.
