The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (also known as The Last Truck) is a 2009 documentary film, directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert[1] and produced for HBO Films. The film follows the closure of the Moraine Assembly plant, a General Motors automobile factory in Moraine, Ohio, on December 23, 2008.[2]
| The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Steven Bognar Julia Reichert |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Production company | HBO Films |
| Original release | |
| Network | HBO |
| Release | September 7, 2009 |
Production
editReichert and Bognar spoke to several hundred of the nearly 3,000 workers at the plant who were to lose their jobs as a result of the closure. Lacking access to film inside the plant itself, the filmmakers supplied some of the workers with Flip Video Mino cameras to smuggle into the factory, allowing them to acquire footage of some of the final vehicles being assembled there.[3]
Accolades
editThe Last Truck was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2009.[4]
See also
edit- Roger and Me, the 1989 Michael Moore documentary film similar in content
- American Factory, the 2019 documentary by the same filmmakers chronicling the subsequent takeover of the factory by a Chinese magnate; about a minute of this film was used as the introduction.
References
edit- ^ Short Film Winners: 2010 Oscars
- ^ "Meet the Academy Award Nominees: Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert--'The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant'". International Documentary Association. 2010-02-28. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
- ^ O'Connor, Clint (March 6, 2010). "Ohio filmmakers seeking Oscar gold: 'The Last Truck' shines spotlight on Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar". cleveland.com. Plain Dealer Publishing. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
- ^ Blair, Iain (December 10, 2009). "Docu shorts contenders for Oscar". Variety. Retrieved November 4, 2014.