Director:
Steve Bognar
Julia Reichert
Run Time: 40 minutes
Country: USA
Steve Bognar
Julia Reichert
Run Time: 40 minutes
Country: USA
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The Last Truck: The Closing of a GM Plant
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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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| 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) |
| Print Source |
Home Box Office www.hbo.com/documentaries |
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