Detropia

Detropia is a 2012 American documentary film, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, about the city of Detroit, Michigan. It focuses on the decline of the economy of Detroit due to long-term changes in the automobile industry, and the effects that the decline has had on the city's residents and infrastructure.

Detropia
Directed by
Produced by
  • Craig Atkinson
  • Heidi Ewing
  • Rachel Grady
Cinematography
  • Craig Atkinson
  • Tony Hardmon
Edited byEnat Sidi
Music by
  • DIAL.81
  • Blair French
Production
company
Loki Films
Distributed by
Release date
  • January 21, 2012 (2012-01-21) (Sundance Film Festival)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$356,000

The film's name came from a portmanteau of the words "Detroit" and "Utopia", and was inspired by an abandoned auto parts store, where the letter "A" in "AUTO" and the letters "R", "T", and "S" in "PARTS" were missing from the store's sign. The letter "I" had been painted into the appropriate part of the store front to make the sign read "UTO PIA".

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.