Story of America is a web series and feature documentary that explores the polarization that exists in the America today along political, economic and cultural lines. The filmmakers use the transformative power of dialogue to reac...

Eric Byler

Annabel Park

Story of America

Story of America is a web series and feature documentary that explores the polarization that exists in the America today along political, economic and cultural lines. The filmmakers use the transformative power of dialogue to reach Americans from across the nation and across the divide to address their fears and bring us closer as a nation. In todays America, 50 years after Martin Luther King, Jr. marched on Washington and 150 years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, America faces profound divisions along political, economic and cultural lines that threaten to destabilize our nation and our democracy.

Opinions have polarized to the point that people along both sides of the divide view the opposition with a great deal of fear and paranoia, leading to alienation and a dehumanizing view of those who dont share our beliefs.

The state of our polarization is so great that some historians have pointed to parallels with the conditions before, during and after the Civil War. Some scholars argue that the current state of ideological polarization among the electorate is to blame for USs economic decline and governmental dysfunction. Economists argue that income inequality will lead to disruptive civil unrest and possibly another financial crisis.

The filmmakers will travel across the country engaging people in a dialogue about the issues that divide us and narrating their journey in search of how America may become more united as a nation. We invite viewers to submit their own statements, responses, and stories in the form of videos, photos, voice messages, or texts. These submissions will be uploaded to the website, and, we anticipate that many of the clips that make it into the documentary feature film version of Story of America will be the work of content creators who responded to our videos, or to one another, via the web.

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