Barack and Michelle Obama are not expected to attend tonight's Oscars ceremony during which AmericanFactory — the Netflix film backed by their production company Higher Ground — is projected to take home the gold
American Factory
The Netflix doc, produced and financed by Participant, is set in an abandoned General Motors plant in Ohio that reopens when Chinese billionaire chairman Cao Dewang buys it and turns it into windshield factory Fuyao Glass America. As the story unfolds, the film captures the initial optimism of plant employees that, over time, is tempered by increasing demands from management in the chase for profits.
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