The Institute for Digital Entertainment and Education is producing a feature documentary film about the changing industry throughout the Midwest. The story follows the continuing decline of the auto industry and its union workers from Muncie, IN.

We plan to talk to the people who are caught in the middle of the changing manufacturing base as a town known for building products transforms and discovers it's new identity. The Midwest saw small towns suffer hardest in the 80’s and 90’s as the de-industrialization period took hold, and the recent closing of Borg Warner is an example of Muncie's own version of this struggle. Union workers throughout the Midwest had a huge part in shaping manufacturing and their communities. We hope to tell their story and Muncie's as both work to define their place in the future economy.