The Place That Makes Us

2020 • Directed by

Karla Murthy

Documentary

Among the industrial ruins of America, a new generation is rebuilding home.

Although a portrait of the troubled Rust Belt city of Youngstown, Ohio, “The Place That Makes Us” offers a gratifyingly hopeful look at efforts to restore a town ravaged by the prolonged economic distress caused by the closure of its iconic steel mills and related industries.