General Motor’s assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio, produced a new SUV every 58 seconds and won awards for quality and efficiency. But on December 23, 2008, GM closed the plant down, leaving 2,500 workers stunned and sad. The Last Truck was filmed during the plant’s final weeks as workers swapped stories and memories as they prepared to drive out of the employee lot for the last time. Interviewed on bar stools, in the front seats of cars, and inside the factory itself, they describe an American business made not of steel and bolts but of proud men and women. These are people who can remember the exact date of their first day on the job and for whom shutting down the plant is like losing a loved one. For acclaimed filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert, who live near the plant, economics is unmistakably personal and local, and in shooting the last truck as it rolls down the line they have preserved an important moment in the history of their community.
In his film company dokumentar.no Lie has since 2008 been working as a film director, cinematographer and producer for documentaries. He works with the new Canon EOS 5D/7D with HD film, and edits in Apple's Final cut.
With Haiti mon Amour (Kjære Haiti, hva nå?) Lie went to Port-au-Prince after the earthqake with Ole Paus and others. We followed the money collected by the norwegian consert Dugnad for Haiti and NRK, and then given to Red Cross, Church Aid and UNICEF. It is edited as a low budget film essay, an montage of images. (se video below)
He has since 2007 worked on a documentary portrait – The Seduced Human – Jørgten Leth and Haiti on the danish renowned filmmaker Jørgen Leth (2011). This one-hour documentary is financed so far by the Norwegian Film Institute with 720 000 kroner – and will be released in 2011. (se video below)
Lie is also editor-in-chief for DOX, the leading European quarterly magazine for documentary films, published by the European Documentary Network. See PDFs of the last magaines below.
Lie has been the editor-in-chief and publisher for Morgenbladet between 1993-2003, and has been editor-in-chief/publisher of the Nordic edition of the monthly newspaper Le Monde diplomatique between 2003-08, where he now is still the publisher and regulary film critic.
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