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American Factory
Thu, Feb 10 | 3pm | TMT Fri, Mar 11 | 2pm | TMT
When a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in the shuttered General Motors plant in Moraine, Ohio, locals are hopeful. This could be the boom the town so desperately needs. But quickly, clashes with the new management occur, especially when it comes to “efficiency” and workers’ rights. Longtime documentary filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert won Best Documentary Feature, alongside producer Jeff Reichert, for this gripping examination of the cost of trying to make ends meet in America.
DIRECTORS: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert. 2019. 110 min. USA. Color. English, Mandarin. DCP.
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Thu, Feb 17 | 3pm | TMT Fri, Mar 4 | 2pm | TMT
Shola Lynch’s documentary profiles a young Angela Davis and her rise as a powerful political catalyst in the 1960s and ’70s. A radical intellectual, outspoken activist, and member of both the Communist Party and the Black Panthers, Davis became implicated in the kidnapping and murder of a judge, leading up to a landmark 1972 court case. Lynch traces Davis’s struggles and insurmountable courage against the US government’s harrowing attempts to silence and subjugate her voice.
DIRECTOR: Shola Lynch.
CAST: Angela Davis, Eisa Davis.
2012. 102 min. USA. Color. English. DCP.
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