Directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, documentary, English, and Mandarin with English subtitles, 115 minutes, USA, 2019.
All Bright Lights screenings are free and open to the pubic. Seating is on a first come basis, no tickets or RSVPs. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Co-presented with SEIU Local 888 Emerson staff union, the Boston Asian American Film Festival and the United Nations Association of Greater Boston and Globe Docs.
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America. Panel discussion on the state of labor to follow. Selected by guest curator Herbert Nipson, Office of the Arts Screening Room Manager.