Long Shot Factory, Tugg, and Film Sprout have announced that they will partner to release Cynthia Wade (“Freeheld”) and Cheryl Miller Houser’s (“Trust Me”) documentary “Generation Startup.”
The new doc follows six young entrepreneurs over the course of a year as they launch their new companies in Detroit.
According to an official release, the film “takes us to the front lines of entrepreneurship in America, capturing the struggles and triumphs of six recent college graduates who put everything on the line to build startups in Detroit. Shot over 17 months, it’s an honest, in-the-trenches look at what it takes to launch a startup. The film celebrates risk-taking, urban revitalization, and diversity while delivering a vital call-to-action — with entrepreneurship at a record low, the country’s economic future is at stake.”
The entrepreneurs featured in the doc are a part of Venture For America (VFA), “a program that sends recent college graduates to work at startups in fifteen cities around the country to train as entrepreneurs, and then helps them launch their own companies.”
“We made this film to celebrate the grit and determination of young people bold enough to take risks and try to build something meaningful. We hope their stories will inspire others,” said filmmakers Wade and Miller Houser.
The film will have its world premiere at the Traverse City Film Festival in Northern Michigan, and will begin a theatrical run on September 23.
