Name: Downeast
Genre: Biography, Documentary, Historical
Released: 2012
Duration: 1 min 17 s

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Genre

Biography

Documentary

Historical

Release Date

2012

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 17m

Synopsis

The last remaining sardine cannery in the United States, in the small lobster village of Prospect Harbor, Maine, was closed in April 2010. A few months later, Boston-based entrepreneur Antonio Bussone purchases the plant, hoping to build a lobster processing facility and rehire the laid-off sardine workers (most of whom are women over 65-years-old). Antonio's troubles begin on the first day he arrives in town, as local politicians in a town-hall meeting oppose his proposal of rebuilding the factory with the use of a $200,000 federal grant, combined with his investment of more than $2 million dollars. Undeterred, Antonio moves forward, determined to build and operate one of the first lobster factories in the United States.