Date: 8/20/2009 to 9/20/2009
Emmy®-award winning Yellow Springs directors Julia Reichert ’70 and Steven Bognar debuted their latest documentary film, “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”, to a full house at the Schuster Performing Arts Center Wednesday, Aug. 19.
The film is about the Dec. 23, 2008, closing of the General Motors assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio. In making the film, Reichert and Bognar spent hundreds of hours with the Moraine workers in the plant’s final weeks, days and hours. 1,600 former autoworkers and their family members were among the 2,200 attending the Dayton premiere. The film is produced by Home Box Office and is part of the HBO 09 Documentary Film Series. “The Last Truck” will air on HBO on September 7th, 2009, at 9 p.m.
In 2007, Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert ‘70 won an Primetime Emmy® for their documentary “A Lion in the House,” which followed children fighting cancer for five years. Bognar has shown four films at Sundance, including “Personal Belongings” and “Picture Day.” Reichert ‘70 has twice been nominated for a Best Feature Documentary Oscar®, for “Union Maids” and “Seeing Red.”