• ‘American Factory’ is a one hour and fifty-minute documentary.
The Obamas' first film ' American Factory’ is set to air on Netflix from Wednesday, August 21.
The one hour and fifty-minute documentary explores the challenges of a globalized economy.
The documentary focuses on post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant.
The film explores the American work-life which has drastically changed due to the emergence of Chinese bosses whose management of the reopened factory within the USA, is with utmost cruelty.
The film is produced by Higher Ground Productions, a production company by Barack and Michelle Obama in partnership with Netflix.
In May, Barack and Michelle Obama announced that they’ve signed a deal with Netflix to release seven films through their production company.
‘American Factory’ is one of the many film projects that have been started by the Obamas'.
“Crip Camp”, a documentary which will highlight the early days of the disability rights movement, is another film to be produced by the Obamas' production company.
The documentary will portray a story of a summer camp for teenagers with disabilities that took place in the early 1970s'