HuffPost Detroit: Filmmaker talks about how Highland Park became his muse
Highland Park, once one of Detroit’s most prosperous suburbs and home of the world’s first assembly line, is the subject of a feature film starring Danny Glover and Parker Posey.
HuffPost Detroit talked to the film’s director. An excerpt:
How did you first become interested in the city Highland Park?
The main thing I was looking for … was a prototypical rags-to-riches-to-rags-again community that highlighted the Rust Belt economy. I immediately hit on Highland Park as this ultimate symbol of everything that went right, and then everything that went wrong, at the same time. How a small community went from farmland, to the cradle of the American dream, back to almost farmland or prairie in only 100 years.
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