Generation Startup

Learning to fail. Redefining success.

• Rated 6.7 out of 10
• Movie
• 2016
• 1h 33m
• Documentary

Generation Startup 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. Directed by Academy Award winner Cynthia Wade and award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Miller Houser, 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.

Director

Cheryl Miller Houser

Starring

Dextina Booker, Kate Catlin, Avery Hairston, Pamela Lewis