If anyone was going to convince a Chinese industrial billionaire to let an independent American film crew document the sensitive inner workings of a former GM plant in Ohio, as it geared up for reopening under new management, it was going to be Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert. The Dayton, Ohio-based pair had already documented the closure of the plant in an Academy Award-nominated HBO film called The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, while Reichert offered an impressive résumé of labour-themed titles including the award-winning Union Maids, and Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists.