March 10
5:30 PM
“Cultures collide. Hope survives. When a Chinese billionaire re-opens a factory and hires two thousand blue-collar Americans, early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.”
Directed by Steven Bognar and Julie Reichart, this documentary film takes a look at a Chinese factory that opens in Moraine Assembly, a shuttered General Motors plant near Dayton, OH. “Cultures collide. Hope survives. When a Chinese billionaire re-opens a factory and hires two thousand blue-collar Americans, early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.”
Purchase tickets through the Peoria Riverfront Museum.