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Downeast
Directed by
David Redmon
and
Ashley Sabin
2012
80m
Not Rated
Documentary
,
Drama
7.5
100%
60%
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Explores Italian immigrant Antonio Bussone's use of federal grants to return factory work to the United States.
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Downeast Reviews
The Villager
Rania Richardson
At a time when manufacturing jobs are moving out of the U.S. or disappearing altogether, the entrepreneur who attempts to open a local plant is a hero, as seen in DOWNEAST.
New York Times
Neil Genzlinger
It's a tale of hope, frustration and disappointment that reminds us that behind all those big numbers are real human beings.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
An elegy for a vanishing emblem of what once characterized this country's vitality.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
An expos of how the financial structures that make businesses possible in America seem to conspire against genuine good will and non-self-serving ambition.
Village Voice
Diana Clarke
Redmon and Sabin carefully tease apart the insidious process of American deindustrialization, and by the end of the film the threads they unravel reveal how the free market can choke like a noose.
WBAI Radio
Prairie Miller
Self-interest butts heads with class interests, in this solemn investigative documentary shedding light on how the collusion of local politicians and conflict of interest outsourcing brought down the economy and plant workers in a depressed Maine town.
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