The slate of projects include adaptations of Michael Lewis' 'The Fifth Risk,' a Frederick Douglass biopic, and a period drama penned by Callie Khouri.
LOS ANGELES — Higher Ground Productions, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company in partnership with Netflix, has unveiled an initial slate of projects that include adaptations of Michael Lewis'"The Fifth Risk," a Frederick Douglass biopic and a period drama penned by Callie Khouri.
"American Factory" was acquired by Netflix in association with Higher Ground Productions out of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary. From Participant Media, the film is directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert . The film takes a deep dive into a post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant and hires 2,000 blue-collar Americans.
Adapted from the New York Times' obituary column Overlooked, telling the stories of remarkable people whose deaths were not reported by the newspaper, Higher Ground is developing"Overlooked" as a scripted anthology series with producers Liza Chasin of 3dot Productions and Joy Gorman Wettels of Anonymous Content.
"Crip Camp" is a feature-length documentary film in production that is supported by the Sundance Institute and acquired earlier this year by Higher Ground and Netflix. Just down the road from Woodstock, in the early 1970s, a parallel revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities that would set in motion the disability rights movement. The film is directed by former camper Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham.
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