The 2019-2020 Hirschfield International Film Series presents our first guest speaker this Saturday, September 28th. Please join the Film and Media Culture Department in Dana Auditorium at 3pm or 8pm for a screening of AMERICAN FACTORY with Producer Jeff Reichert in attendance for a conversation following each screening.

This acclaimed film takes a deep dive into a post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant and hires two thousand blue-collar Americans still recovering from the effects of the 2008 recession. Working side-by-side with experienced Chinese workers, the locals are optimistic about the future for the first time in almost a decade. But early days of hope give way to setbacks as high-tech China collides with working-class America, and issues of language and culture become seemingly insurmountable walls between clashing factions.

This film won the Documentary Directing Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and is the first of many projects being released by Higher Ground Productions -- President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company.

This event is free and open to the public. This film is rated TV-14 and is intended for audiences 14 and above.

For more information about this screening or to check out the Fall lineup, visit go.middlebury.edu/hirschfield

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