Barack and Michelle Obama on Tuesday unveiled a slate of projects they are preparing for Netflix, a year after the former president and first lady signed a deal with the streaming platform.
The ObamasB次元官网网址� production company, Higher Ground Productions, on Tuesday announced a total of seven films and series that Barack Obama said will entertain but also B次元官网网址渆ducate, connect and inspire us all.B次元官网网址�
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Higher Ground is producing a feature film on Frederick Douglass, adapted from David W. BlightB次元官网网址檚 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. Also in the works is a documentary series that adapts Michael LewisB次元官网网址� B次元官网网址淔ifth Risk: Undoing Democracy,B次元官网网址� the B次元官网网址淢oneyballB次元官网网址� authorB次元官网网址檚 2018 bestseller about government servants working under the political appointees of Donald TrumpB次元官网网址檚 administration.
The production companyB次元官网网址檚 first release will be Steven Bognar and Julia ReichertB次元官网网址檚 Sundance Film Festival documentary B次元官网网址淎merican Factory,B次元官网网址� about a Chinese-owned factory in post-industrial Ohio. Netflix and Higher Ground also acquired Jim LeBrecht and Nicole NewnhamB次元官网网址檚 B次元官网网址淐rip Camp,B次元官网网址� a documentary about a summer camp for disabled teenager founded in upstate New York in the early 1970s.
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The projects are to be released over the next several years.
Jake Coyle, The Associated Press
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