Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s American Factory has been selected as the opening night film for the 2019 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
The 115-minute film (pictured) explores the impact of a General Motors plant shutdown in 2008 in Dayton, Ohio. Six years later, the city regained hope when a Chinese facility reopened the facility, promising jobs for American and Chinese laborers.
Full Frame is now in its 22nd year, with a lineup that boasts 83 documentary films selected from nearly 1,700 submissions. Films will screen as part of four programs: the New Film program, the Invited program, the Full Frame Tribute program featuring Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s films, and the thematic program.
The Aretha Franklin doc Amazing Grace will close out the fest. Directed by Sydney Pollack, Amazing Grace took decades to make it to the screen after various legal battles.
The festival is put on by the Center for Documentary Studies, a non-profit supported by corporate sponsors, private foundations, and individual donors, with Duke University serving as a presenting sponsor.
Full Frame takes place April 4 to 7 in Durham, North Carolina.
See the full list of films screening at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival below.
New Docs
All Inclusive (Director: Corina Schwingruber Ilić)
Switzerland
2018, 10 minutes
Always in Season (Director: Jacqueline Olive)
U.S.
2018, 89 minutes
The Ambassador’s Wife (Director: Theresa Traore Dahlberg)
Sweden
2018, 20 minutes
Caballerango (Director: Juan Pablo González)
Mexico,
2018, 60 minutes
The Changing Same (Directors: Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster)
U.S.
2018
22 minutes
Crannog (Director: Isa Rao)
UK
2018, 15 minutes
Decade of Fire (Directors: Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, Gretchen Hildebran)
U.S.
2018, 76 minutes
Easter Snap (Director: RaMell Ross)
U.S.
2018, 14 minutes
Edgecombe (Director: Crystal Kayiza)
U.S.
2018, 15 minutes
Exit Music (Director: Cameron Mullenneaux)
U.S.
2018, 72 minutes
Giants and the Morning After (Directors: Malla Grapengiesser, Per Bifrost, Alexander Rynéus) U.S. Premiere
Sweden
2018, 88 minutes
GIVE (Director: David de Rozas)
U.S.
2018, 17 minutes
Grit (Directors: Cynthia Wade, Sasha Friedlander)
Indonesia
2018, 80 minutes
Harvest Season (Director: Bernardo Ruiz)
U.S.
2018, 83 minutes
Histories of Wolves (Director: Agnes Meng) U.S. Premiere
Portugal
2018, 23 minutes
Human Nature (Director: Adam Bolt)
U.S.
2019, 107 minutes
Irene’s Ghost (Director: Iain Cunningham) North American Premiere
UK
2018, 81 minutes
It’s Going To Be Beautiful (Directors: Luis Gutiérrez Arias, John Henry Theisen)
Mexico, U.S.
2018, 9 minutes
Jay Myself (Director: Stephen Wilkes)
U.S.
2018, 78 minutes
Kifaru (Director: David Hambridge)
Kenya
2019, 81 minutes
Kolmas Punkt (The Third Point) (Director: Alina Taalman) World Premiere
Estonia, U.S.
2019, 23 minutes
Life Overtakes Me (Directors: John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson)
U.S.
2019, 40 minutes
Los Reyes (Directors: Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff)
Chile, Germany
2018, 78 minutes
The Magic Life of V (Director: Tonislav Hristov)
Finland, Denmark, Bulgaria
2019, 87 minutes
Midnight Family (Director: Luke Lorentzen)
Mexico, U.S.
2018, 81 minutes
Moment to Moment (Director: Mike Attie) World Premiere
U.S.
2019, 14 minutes
Mossville: When Great Trees Fall (Director: Alexander John Glustrom) U.S. Premiere
U.S.
2019, 75 minutes
Motherland (Directors: Emily Mkrtichian, Jesse Soursourian)
Armenia
2018, 19 minutes
Obon (Directors: André Hörmann, Anna Samo)
Germany
2018, 15 minutes
One Child Nation (Directors: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang)
China, U.S.
2019, 85 minutes
One Thing in Nothing (Director: Whitney Legge)
U.S.
2018, 4 minutes
Only The Moon (Director: Maya Cueva) World Premiere
U.S.
2018, 9 minutes
Our Song to War (Director: Juanita Onzaga)
Belgium, Colombia
2018, 15 minutes
Ressaca (Directors: Vincent Rimbaux, Patrizia Landi) North American Premiere
France, Brazil
2018, 84 minutes
Santuario (Directors: Christine Delp, Pilar Timpane)
U.S.
2018, 26 minutes
Scared of Revolution (Director: Daniel Krikke) U.S. Premiere
The Netherlands
2018, 72 minutes
Scenes from a Dry City (Directors: Simon Wood, François Verster)
U.S., South Africa
2018, 13 minutes
Stretch (Director: Jay Bedwani)
UK
2018, 13 minutes
A Thousand Girls Like Me (Director: Sahra Mani)
France
2018, 80 minutes
Titixe (Director: Tania Hernández Velasco) U.S. Premiere
Mexico
2018, 62 minutes
The Watson’s Hotel (Directors: Ragunath Vasudevan, Nathaniel Knop, Peter Rippl) World Premiere
Germany, India
2018, 82 minutes
Welcome to Harmondsworth (Directors: Felix Bazalgette, Toby Bull)
UK
2018, 15 minutes
When All Is Ruin Once Again (Director: Keith Walsh) North American Premiere
Ireland
2018, 82 minutes
Where the Pavement Ends (Director: Jane Gillooly)
U.S.
2018, 86 minutes
Where We Belong (Director: Jacqueline Zünd) North American Premiere
Switzerland
2019, 78 minutes
The Winter Garden’s Tale (Director: Simon Mozgovyi) North American Premiere
Ukraine, Czech Republic
2018, 75 minutes
Invited Program
3 Days 2 Nights (Director: John Breen, Co-Director: Jojo Pennebaker) U.S. Premiere
U.S.
2018, 80 minutes
Amazing Grace
U.S.
2018, 87 minutes
The Apollo of Gaza (Director: Nicolas Wadimoff)
Switzerland, Canada
2018, 78 minutes
Ask Dr. Ruth (Director: Ryan White)
U.S.
2018, 100 minutes
Breakthrough (Director: Bill Haney)
U.S.
2019, 90 minutes
Buddy (Director: Heddy Honigmann)
The Netherlands
2018, 86 minutes
Crafting an Echo (Director: Marco Williams)
U.S.
2018, 63 minutes
The Edge of Democracy (Director: Petra Costa)
Brazil
2019, 120 minutes
F/11 and Be There (Director: Jethro Waters)
U.S.
2018, 84 minutes
Hail Satan? (Director: Penny Lane)
U.S.
2018, 95 minutes
The Infiltrators (Directors: Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra)
U.S.
2019, 95 minutes
Knock Down the House (Director: Rachel Lears)
U.S.
2019, 86 minutes
Meeting Gorbachev (Directors: Werner Herzog, Andre Singer)
U.S.
2018, 92 minutes
Mike Wallace Is Here (Director: Avi Belkin)
U.S.
2018, 94 minutes
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (Director: Stanley Nelson)
U.S.
2019, 115 minutes
The Raft (Director: Marcus Lindeen)
Sweden, Denmark, Germany, U.S.
2018, 97 minutes
RAISE HELL: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (Director: Janice Engel)
U.S.
2019, 93 minutes
Running with Beto (Director: David Modigliani)
U.S.
2019, 93 minutes
Sea of Shadows (Director: Richard Ladkani)
Austria
2018, 105 minutes
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders)
U.S.
2018, 119 minutes
You Gave Me A Song: The Life and Music of Alice Gerrard (Director: Kenny Dalsheimer) World Premiere
U.S.
2019, 80 minutes
Full Frame Tribute: Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
American Factory 美国工厂 (Directors: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert)
U.S.
2019, 115 minutes
Last Reel (Director: Steven Bognar)
U.S.
2014, 8 minutes
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (Directors: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert)
U.S.
2009, 40 minutes
A Lion in the House (Directors: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert)
U.S.
2006, 225 minutes
Personal Belongings (Director: Steven Bognar)
U.S.
1996, 63 minutes
Picture Day (Director: Steven Bognar)
U.S.
2000, 7 minutes
Raises Not Roses – The Story of the 9 to 5 Movement (Work-In-Progress Screening) (Directors: Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar)
U.S.
2019, 88 minutes
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (Directors: Julia Reichert, James Klein)
U.S.
1983, 100 minutes
Union Maids (Directors: Julia Reichert, James Klein, Miles Mogulescu)
U.S.
1976, 50 minutes
Thematic Program: Some Other Lives of Time
Araya (Director: Margot Benacerraf)
Venezuela, France
1959, 82 minutes
La Jetée (Director: Chris Marker)
France
1962, 28 minutes
Koyaanisqatsi (Director: Godfrey Reggio)
U.S.
1982, 87 minutes
Mysterious Object at Noon (Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Thailand
2000, 89 minutes
Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times) (Director: Michelangelo Frammartino)
Italy
2011, 88 minutes
Twilight City (Director: Reece Auguiste)
UK
1989, 52 minutes
El Velador (The Night Watchman) (Director: Natalia Almada)
Mexico, U.S.
2011, 72 minutes