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Julia Reichert
Producer -
Jeff Skoll
Executive Producer -
Julie Parker Benello
Producer -
Diane Weyermann
Executive Producer -
Steven Bognar
Producer -
Jeff Reichert
Producer -
Lindsay Utz
Editor -
Chad Cannon
Original Music Composer
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rsanek 6/23/2021 3:58:44 PM
You always read about "cultural differences" as being something that must be overcome when dealing with international projects, but that language always felt so abstract to me; if anything, it seemed like more of an excuse as to why things might be delayed rather than a real problem. This doc did a great job of telling the story of what that concept really means in practice. _American Factory_ shows you how much friction is created due to the incongruity in cultural ideas about work ethic, personal freedoms, power, and process. I think that was the highlight of the story for me. For me as an American, there were also feelings of frustration about having a country that doesn't have an answer for these people; their life goes from making $29 working for a US company, to making $12 for a Chinese company. The anti-labor-organizing that we see from Fuyao in the film isn't even unique to this being a China-based company; our home-grown Amazon does a pretty good job of hiring "labor relations" firms to weed out union organizing. I find myself agreeing with one of the speakers at a UAW event captured in the film: we've allowed our country to become one where the rich can exploit the poor, and it would be pretty cool to take it back.
Dave Burrows
Self - Vice President, Fuyao Glass AmericaJunming 'Jimmy' Wang
Self - Vice President, FuyaoSherrod Brown
Self - U.S. Senator, OhioRob Haerr
Self - Furnace SupervisorJohn Gauthier
Self - President, Fuyao Glass AmericaJeff Daochuan Liu
Self - President, Fuyao Glass AmericaJill Lamantia
Self - Forklift OperatorCynthia Harper
Self - Lamination Specialist