Full Frame Documentary Film Festival’s Winter Series is a series of free film screenings throughout the winter. Space is limited. Follow the links below for more information about the films and to RSVP.
The screenings all take place at Carolina Theatre in Durham. RSVPs start the day before each screening.
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American Factory
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The Carolina Theatre
309 W Morgan Street, Durham
Free, but RSVPs are recommended
In 2008 General Motors closed its assembly plant in Dayton, Ohio. More than 2,500 workers lost their jobs. Six years later, Fuyao, a Chinese company manufacturing automobile glass, purchased the plant. The announcement of new owners sparked hope for many residents who had struggled to find jobs after GM shuttered. As Fuyao moved into the U.S. market, its new factory would employ Chinese and American workers.
With astounding access, Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert document the opening of the factory and the years that follow as people from profoundly different cultures work alongside each other. Stunning cinematography moves us through the experiences of workers on the factory floor, supervisors, senior management, and even the Fuyao chairman, Chinese billionaire entrepreneur Cao Dewang, revealing the cultural collision and its consequences. American Factory deftly traverses conflicting perspectives and dramatically unfolding events to illuminate the tensions of globalized industrialization. By weaving multiple personal narratives, the film highlights ways that people can come together and the structures that can keep them apart, making space to consider the gravity of workers’ relationships to their livelihoods, and to one another.
To RSVP, follow the above link. RSVPs begin for the general public Monday, January 27th, 2020, at 9 a.m.
Apollo 11
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
7:30 pm. to 9:15 p.m.
The Carolina Theatre
309 W Morgan Street, Durham
From director Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) comes a cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission—the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names. Immersed in the perspectives of the astronauts, the team in Mission Control, and the millions of spectators on the ground, we vividly experience those momentous days and hours in 1969 when humankind took a giant leap into the future.
To RSVP, follow the above link. RSVPs begin for the general public Tuesday, February 4th, 2020, at 9 a.m.
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