Our America (2002)

Directed by

Ernest Dickerson

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

R

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two teenage boys in a Chicago housing project create a radio documentary about their neighborhood's struggles. They record stories of violence, poverty, and hope from the people around them. The film follows their journey to share these voices with a wider audience.

somberrawintimatereflectivegroundedemotionalurgentquietly devastating

What happens

Our America is a film based on the book by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman, Our America: Life And Death on the South Side of Chicago that tells the story of the first 4 years of Ghetto Life 101, an Award Winning NPR Documentary Series of real life stories in South Side, Chicago, they created. It premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, and aired on American television later that year. This was the last performance of Brandon Hammond before his retirement from acting. The film is Dedicated to Eric Morse, a 5 Year-Old Boy who was murdered in the Ida B. Wells Homes eight years earlier in 1994. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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