Local GM movie ‘The Last Truck’ to get Centerville screening

Centerville Library will screen the HBO documentary “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14.

Local filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar, with their crew members, made the film in the months leading up to the Dec. 23, 2008, closing of GM’s SUV assembly plant in Moraine, interviewing workers and others affected by the closing.

In an e-mail, Reichert said she and Bognar and possibly others will be available to answer questions and talk about the documentary at the screening.

The screening will be at the 111 W. Spring Valley Road branch. Admission is free.

The plant’s closure put about 1,000 people out of work, although the plant had employed thousands more in recent years. Workers there assembled mid-size SUVs, like the Chevrolet TrailBlazer.

The Last Truck debuted locally last summer before airing on HBO on Labor Day 2009. In October, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named the work one of eight contenders for the “documentary short subject” Oscar at the 82nd Academy Awards.