Did the filmmakers think no one would remember?”Evidently, they did — at least no one in Hollywood. Donald Trump loves to brag that his NBC reality TV show, The Obamas inked a wide-ranging production deal with Netflix last year to help make original TV shows, movies, and documentaries. The film had its festival premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The Obama administration’s auto bailout highly favored the UAW and its members. Barack and Michelle Obama talk with the directors of the documentary American Factory about the importance of storytelling and the impact of their film. Netflix has had at least one film nominated for best documentary every year since 2014. “How does a nearly two-hour film telling the story of these workers fail even to mention the direct role the co-owner of the film’s production company played in creating their hardships? "American Factory," the first title from Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground, won the Academy Award for best documentary feature Sunday — solidifying the Obamas’ status as budding media moguls.The film, which premiered on Netflix in August, tells the story of a Chinese billionaire who opens a glass factory in a former General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio, and examines the relationship between workers and employers in the 21st century globalized economy.“Congrats to Julia and Steven, the filmmakers behind ‘American Factory,’ for telling such a complex, moving story about the very human consequences of wrenching economic change,” the former president tweeted Sunday. The Netflix-Obama nexus is stranger and more significant than American Factory itself. Hollywood elites showed their love for Barack and Michelle Obama by bestowing their two Netflix documentaries Netflix received a total of 160 nominations on Tuesday, more than any other network or streaming service. While Oscar voters have long resisted awarding the streaming service’s scripted dramas and comedies, its documentaries have conversely fared quite well at the Academy Awards.
Julia Reichert, the co-director of American Factory, told the Hollywood Reporter … American Factory (美国工厂; 美國工廠) is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, about Chinese company Fuyao's factory in Moraine, a city near Dayton, Ohio, that occupies Moraine Assembly, a shuttered General Motors plant. Barack and Michelle Obama's production company now has an Oscar-shaped feather in its hat. “Congrats to Julia and Steven, the filmmakers behind ‘American Factory,’ for telling such a complex, moving story about the very human consequences of … And they were right. The first documentary produced by Barack and Michelle Obama for Netflix debuted on Wednesday. Julia Reichert, the co-director of American Factory, told the Hollywood Reporter … Produced for Netflix, this moving film reveals what happened when … American Factory is the first Obama production to reach Netflix subscribers. He had nothing whatsoever to do with the plant’s reopening—that was all the work of state and local officials and community leaders.As Rep. Turner recalled, his retired father — who had once worked at the plant — lost his health insurance in Obama’s auto bailout.It was only because of bipartisan efforts, assisted by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), that the plant was re-opened with Chinese help, Rep. Turner wrote.Turner was incredulous at the film’s silence about the Obama administration’s policies. In 2017, the streamer won the award for its documentary In an age of information overload, we all need strategies and recommendation to navigate humanity’s vast cultural output.
HBO came in second with 107.Both Obama documentaries were released as part of their high-profile production deal with Netflix that allows the first couple to produce scripted and non-scripted content under their Higher Ground production banner. Mike Turner (R-OH) has noted that Obama’s auto bailout helped force the plant’s closure and made it harder for the workers to find new jobs due to political favoritism toward some unions and not others.The movie caught some heat for comments that the former first lady makes about child-rearing. The president’s role wasn’t indirect and isn’t a matter of dispute: His administration’s bailout deal for GM included a backroom exclusive agreement with the United Auto Workers.A quick refresher. This week’s widespread media blitz heralding Netflix’s broadcast of its first Obama-endorsed presentation, “American Factory,” was more than synchronicity.
The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during his farewell address in Chicago on Jan. 10, 2017.Bilgin Sasmaz / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images file The Obamas' first film: will American Factory be the biggest documentary of 2019? Any non-UAW employees looking to transfer were forced to start as new hires, wiping clean any wages, tenure, and benefits built up during careers at other GM plants.“American Factory” documents the UAW’s efforts to unionize the reopened auto glass factory without any mention of the same union’s direct role in the GM plant’s closure. What’s interesting about it, though, is that it never once alludes to the part Mr. Obama played in diminishing the ability of Moraine’s laid off workers to transfer to other GM plants. Netflix received a total of 160 nominations on Tuesday, more than any other network or streaming service. Former President Barack Obama played a direct role in the hardships of the workers featured in American Factory , the Oscar-winning documentary his new production company produced.