Film Details

Rust Belt, Ohio. In the husk of a huge, abandoned General Motors plant, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory, hiring 2000 blue-collar Americans and hundreds of native Chinese. Early days of hope and optimism are tested by the scale of the project and by the cultural differences between high-tech China and America’s post-industrial Midwest. Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar take us deep inside this story—and the plant itself—examining this clash of cultures and the future of both American labor and Chinese economic clout. Winner of the Documentary Directing Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. DCP. 115 min.