Barack and Michelle Obama's production company scored an Oscar win on Sunday for 'American Factory.'
It is the first release from Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground Productions.
Julia Reichert, Lindsay Utz, Steven Bognar, Jeff Reichert and Julie Parker Benello accept the Documentary - Feature - award for 'American Factory' onstage during the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 09, 2020 in Hollywood, California.
"American Factory" is the first release from their company Higher Ground Productions, which the former U.S. president and first lady founded in 2018. In that same year, they announced a multiyear deal to supply content to streaming service"Our film is from Ohio and China. Go Buckeyes!" Julia Reichert, an American documentary filmmaker who worked on the film, said during her acceptance speech Sunday.
"American Factory" follows the lives of thousands of workers who were laid off from their auto jobs in Moraine, Ohio, in the 2008 recession. Some of those workers were hired six years later by Chinese company Fuyao Glass America to make automotive glass in the same plant."
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