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  READ FULL ARTICLE   "The Flagmakers" — the 2022 documentary about Oak Creek's Eder Flag and its largely immigrant work force that landed ...

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THE FLAGMAKERS Documentary Stage Musical Adaptation In the Works

The film follows the workers at the employee-owned Eder Flag in Oak Creek, WI, the country's largest American flag and flagpole maker.

Mark Gordon Pictures has tapped playwright John J. Caswell Jr. to adapt a stage musical of the acclaimed short documentary The Flagmakers, from Oscar winner Cynthia Wade and AFI Doc Award winner Sharon Liese. The New York Public Theater’s associate artistic director Saheem Ali is attached to direct.

Eder Flag employees Evelia, Vasilika, Raheela, and Hazarah sew and fold flagsPhoto Credit: National Geographic/Heidi Gutman https://deadline.com/20...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Cynthia Wade has made the most appearances at the Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival. This year she will present The Fla...



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The Flagmakers (National Geographic Documentary Films)

 

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Wisconsin sews and ships five million American flags worldwide every year. Oak Creek based Eder Flag is at the center of a new documentary titled "The Flagmakers."

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An Oak Creek flag manufacturer is the focus of a locally set documentary that will have its hometown premiere on Thursday night at the Oriental Theatre. The Flagmakers, from National Geographic Films, is the story of employee-owned Eder Flag, which sews and ships five million American flags per year from its Rawson Avenue factory.

 

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From National Geographic Documentary Films, Academy Award-winning director Cynthia Wade, award-winning director Sharon Liese and executive producer Giannis Antetokounmpo, THE FLAGMAKERS poses one of today’s most pressing questions: who is the American flag for? Employee-owned Eder Flag in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, sews and ships five million American flags a year. The flagmakers — locals, immigrants and refugees — stitch stars and stripes as they wrestle with identity and belonging.

OAK CREEK -- The American flag has 13 broad stripes, seven red, six white, a field of blue and 50 perfectly-placed bright stars. It’s the represent...