The Place That Makes Us (2020) [N/A]
Featuring:
Ian Beniston, Tiffany Sokol
Directed by:
Karla Murthy
Release Date:
July 27, 2020
Original Title:
The Place That Makes Us
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Greene Fort Productions
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 70
Among the industrial ruins of America, a new generation is rebuilding home.
Although a portrait of the troubled Rust Belt city of Youngstown, Ohio, “The Place That Makes Us” offers a gratifyingly hopeful look at efforts to restore a town ravaged by the prolonged economic distress caused by the closure of its iconic steel mills and related industries.
When the steel mills shut down in Youngstown Ohio, it shattered a way of life. Over half the population left. Thousands of empty blighted homes were left behind, eroding the social fabric of this once mighty industrial base. Like many post industrial towns, persistent joblessness, crime and poverty plague the city. Filmed over the course of two years, this film documents the lives of a new generation of residents who have grown up in a world of post industrial decline. Unlike their parents generation, haunted and traumatized by watching their way of life crumble around them, this generation is able to envision a new future, and they are working to make a life for themselves in their hometown. This film is a testimony to the modest but profound resilience and dedication it takes to transform a community. A crucial story to be heard at a time of extreme inequality, divisiveness, upheaval and uncertainty, The Place That Makes Us is a meditation on the meaning of home in America today.
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