host: let me go to heidi ewing on this.ou hear the mayor at the end there in your documentary saying, "the city is broke, i don't know how many times i have to say that." the headlines most recently from detroit is they are bankrupt and are filing for it. guest: it was definitely not a surprise to us or any resident of detroit. the mayor has been saying that for a long time, and people who live in detroit feel he broke -- the brokeness of the city on a day-to-day basis with the lack of services and other factors that make the city a difficult place to live. host: rachel grady, what was your reaction when you heard that the city was going to be filing for bankruptcy? thought -- as i said, we were filming throughout 2010 and into 2011. you know, we weren't surprised that all. it was something we were kind of waiting for treat it seemed imminent -- it was something we were kind of waiting for. it seemed imminent. he did not seem like something that was avoidable. they were massively in debt and that no tax base, and there was

. >>> this week on q&a, filmmaker heidi ewing discusses detropia that she could directed with rachel grady. sections of the program contain language which may be offensive. c-span: at what point did you decide to do a documentary on the detroit? >> guest: i'm from the area. i was born and raised in the dietrich areas of there was a personal connection. i never considered making a film in detroit or with any personal ties to myself whatsoever. but my co-director and body, rachel, started talking about the city of detroit in late 2008, because i would return home and things seemed to be getting worse and worse. it was all pretty bad when i grew up there in the 80's. so to see the crisis spread out further and further into the suburbs and a lot of people i knew were leaving and we started discussing what was the future of this place, but wouldn't like, then in october of 2009i came with my crew for three days as an experiment and filmed in a city just as an outsider and talked to a few people and absolutely riveted by the people and the place. and i thought there's definitely a movie he