35th cleveland international film festival :: march 24 - april 3, 2011
Director:
Julia Reichert
Steve Bognar


Run Time: 40 minutes

Country: USA
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The Last Truck: The Closing of a GM Plant

Julia Reichert is a three-time Oscar® nominee who teaches film at Wright State University in Dayton, about 20 minutes from the General Motors Moraine assembly plant. When it was announced in June 2008 that the giant factory would be closing, she and Steven Bognar recruited a crew from Wright State and started filming immediately. The result of their collaboration is a wrenching documentary about the effects of the plant’s closing on its workers and the community-at-large. In THE LAST TRUCK, workers talk about their pride in their jobs, their fear for the future without them, and especially their sorrow over losing the "family" they’ve worked with on the factory floor. Reichert and Bognar put human faces on stories that have become painfully familiar, precipitated by globalization and the loss of American manufacturing. – B.B.

This film is presented with the generous support of JUDY SHEPHERD.
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Wright State University Alumni Assoc.
Category Documentaries
Producer Julia Reichert, Steve Bognar
Cinematography Steve Bognar
Editing Steve Bognar
Director Bio Julia Reichert is a professor of motion pictures in the theater arts department at Wright State University. Steven Bognar is an independent filmmaker and media arts educator, and a former assistant professor of media arts at Antioch College.
Select Filmography "A Lion In the House" (2006), THE LAST TRUCK: THE CLOSING OF A GM PLANT (2009)
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Past Screenings

Friday, March 26, 2010 at 7:15 PM
     - with FilmForum
Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 4:20 PM