The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant 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.

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Directed bySteven Bognar
Julia Reichert
Production
company
Distributed byHBO
Release date
  • September 7, 2009 (2009-09-07)
Running time
42 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Production

Reichert 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.[2]

Accolades

The Last Truck was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2009.[3]

References
  1. Short Film Winners: 2010 Oscars
  2. 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.
  3. Blair, Iain (December 10, 2009). "Docu shorts contenders for Oscar". Variety. Retrieved November 4, 2014.

See also
  • 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
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