Flint, MI has been on nationwide radar for some time now, however the metropolis's issues aren't over, nor did they come up from nothing. Netflix's newest documentary collection, Flint City, explores the background and trajectory of this metropolis how poverty, police relations, and a infamous water disaster took a heavy toll.
Flint is a metropolis of 100,000 individuals with roughly zero.1 % of that staffing the police pressure. Within the trailer, a number of residents categorical distrust for the regulation or hopelessness at what the town – as soon as a promising automotive hub ranked excessive in security and potential – has develop into.
The eight-part Flint City seems to be at Flint's mounting struggles via the lens of its understaffed regulation enforcement and follows them for a yr of the debilitating water disaster. Within the administrators' personal phrases, "Flint actually by no means stops."
"Flint feels so distinctive and forgotten," director Zackary Canepari stated in a press launch. "It’s a charismatic, bizarre place that has been on the fringes for therefore lengthy that the irregular has develop into regular. And there was a robust tendency, even through the peak of the water disaster, for outsiders to see Flint in one-dimension. However it’s not one-dimensional. "
Occasions like a millage vote and the 2016 presidential election lent themselves naturally to the year-in-the-life narrative, as did approaching the town by means of an ensemble of cops.
"Regardless of all of the troubles dealing with Flint at the moment, there’s a relentless and unshakable spirit that most individuals in Flint nonetheless handle to carry onto," stated his co-director Drea Cooper. "It’s magnetic, and that’s what retains us coming again."
Flint City premieres on Netflix March 2.
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