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Hanks gives nod to “The Last Truck”
Film star Tom Hanks has described the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Last Truck: The Closing of a GM Plant” as a “backbreaking piece of work.”
Appearing on the Friday morning, March 5, MSNBC news show “Morning Joe,” Hanks asked host Tom Brokaw and other guests if they had seen the film, which was made by Yellow Springs directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert.
Hanks described how the filmmakers heard on the news that GM was “going to close these plants and there’s the plant just down the street… They just went down with their high-def cameras and got the stories of the people.”
Reichert, a previous two-time Academy Award nominee, is a member of the motion pictures faculty at Wright State University. Bognar is a 1986 graduate of the program. Most of the crew consisted of WSU alumni and faculty members, who performed jobs such as camera operation, grip and post-production.
For a clip of the interview with Hanks, go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/vp/35723940#35723940.
“The Last Truck” is about the closing of GM’s Moraine truck assembly plant in 2008. It’s in the running for the documentary short award at the Oscars, which will be broadcast at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 7, on ABC.
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By Janet
March 5, 2010 4:51 PM | Link to this
I hope they win! They were able to get to the heart of Dayton and many of its workers who lost their jobs. Even during the interview with Tom Hanks, he mentions that these workers were not make the big bucks. Most were making around 18 and hour and these workers suffered a lot of injuries on the job just to make a life for their families.
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May 3, 2010 3:19 AM | Link to this
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