The first Netflix project to be released under Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions has a release date.
Titled American Factory, the movie is directed by Academy Award nominees Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert. The project took home the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It will also be released on Netflix on August 21, 2019.
In terms of its synopsis, American Factory will center around a Chinese billionaire who opens up a new factory in post-industrial Ohio, which employs two thousand blue-collar Americans. A period of hope and optimism gives way to a series of setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
The project will be the first to be released under Higher Ground Productions, the first production company by Barack and Michelle Obama. Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann will executive produce the film. Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert and Julie Parker Benello will also produce.
“We are honored and thrilled that Netflix and Higher Ground are teaming up to bring American Factory to the world,” Reichert and Bognar said in a statement today. “Their energy and enthusiasm is infectious. We’re excited about the national and global conversations we believe this film can spark.”
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