"American Factory" is the first release from
Higher Ground Productions, a company the former U.S. president
and first lady founded in 2018 as they unveiled a multiyear deal
to supply programing to Netflix Inc. The film will compete for
best documentary at the Academy Awards on Feb. 9.
"Glad to see American Factory's Oscar nod for Best Documentary,"
Barack Obama wrote on Twitter. "It’s the kind of story we don’t
see often enough, and it’s exactly what Michelle and I hope to
achieve with Higher Ground. Congrats to the incredible
filmmakers and entire team!"
Michelle Obama also offered congratulations, via Twitter, to
filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar.
"American Factory" traces the lives of thousands of workers laid
off from their auto jobs in Moraine, Ohio, in the 2008
recession, some of whom were hired six years later by Chinese
company Fuyao Glass America to make automotive glass in the same
plant.
"American Factory" will compete against "The Cave," a
documentary about genocide in Syria; "The Edge of Democracy"
about the unraveling of two Brazilian presidencies, and others.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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