California Company Town
Synopsis
Lee Anne Schmitt explores California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom towns built and abandoned by the industries that necessitated their creation. Sold as a limitless land expansive with free opportunity, California was actually, from its onset, fissured by the interwoven needs of private and public interests. Schmitt's film covers various locations through time, as the major industries of the early 20th century (mining, lumber, oil) give way to the military, eventually leading to multinational corporations, and the use of small towns as satellites for growing urban metropolises.
California Company Town (2008) is a 1h 15min documentary feature film by Lee Anne Schmitt. Lee Anne Schmitt explores California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom towns built and ab...
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Festival History
- DOK Leipzig 2025 generic - Hommage: Lee Anne Schmitt
- Doclisboa International Film Festival 2020 generic
- Fronteira International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival 2018 generic
- Viennale 2011 generic
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009 generic
- Seattle International Film Festival 2009 generic
Releases & classifications
| Theatrical | United States | September 22, 2008 |
Identifiers & sources
| IMDb | tt1386417 |
| TMDB | 266871 |
Additional data: TMDB.
