The Obamas Reveal What They're Working On At Netflix

[hlthe2b]

Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama signed a major production deal with the streaming giant last year.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obamas-netflix-production-deal_n_5cc8818de4b0279182400037

Here’s a look at the newly announced projects that the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions will take on:

“American Factory,” a documentary that Netflix acquired at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “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 two thousand blue-collar Americans.” The film won the festival’s prestigious Directing Award for U.S. Documentary.

“Bloom,” a drama series about women and people of color facing discrimination while working in the New York fashion world after World War II. The series is co-created by Oscar winner Callie Khouri, best known for writing “Thelma and Louise.”

“Crip Camp,” a documentary currently in production about a 1970s summer camp that influenced the disability rights movement.

A movie adaptation of “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” a biography by author David W. Blight. The book just won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for history.

A scripted series based on the New York Times’ Overlooked, the paper’s series of obituaries celebrating the lives of important women and people of color who were not covered at the time of their deaths.

“Listen To Your Vegetables and Eat Your Parents,” a children’s series that “will take young children and their families around the globe on an adventure that tells us the story of our food.”

The Obamas’ production company previously announced that it would produce a documentary series based on author Michael Lewis’ book “The Fifth Risk,” about career government workers navigating the chaotic transition between the Obama and Trump administrations.

[Honeycombe8]

1. I can't wait! I love Netflix! I love the Obamas! So it's a win-win for me! nt

[dlk]

2. The Obamas Continue to Contribute to Our Country in Meaningful and Wonderful Ways

How fortunate we are!

[Sentath]

3. Pre-rolling my eyes at the expected hyperbolic response to

“Listen To Your Vegetables and Eat Your Parents,”

someone out there will call it a rallying cry for tree worshiping patricides, just you wait and see if they don't.

[hlthe2b]

4. They won't watch anyway and heaven knows, little compares to the birtherism attacks all these years.

[Sentath]

9. Goodness, no

it might tell them to eat a vegetable!

Otherwise it is an ambitious and encouraging slate of productions.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Fascinating.

I am still reading Mrs. Obama's book, about half way thru, and this film project sounds very much like what they both would do, as a team.
can't wait to see the films.

[mcar]

6. I hope they win an Oscar for the Douglass film

For them, of course, but also to see Rs

[hlthe2b]

7. Have you read his book?

I keep meaning to...

[mcar]

8. Hubby has it and has been reading it

I'll grab it when he's done.

[Blue_Tires]

10. The haters on both the left and right are going to come down hard on this...