TIGHTROPE: AMERICANS REACHING FOR HOPE

117 min

WORLD PREMIERE How did the idea of “rugged individualism” become a curse for everyday Americans? Distraught over the loss of too many childhood classmates, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs of opioid addiction, poverty and incarceration plaguing America, from the inner city to small towns like Kristof’s hometown of Yamhill, Oregon. While pockets of empathy and aid exist, are they enough to rescue the thousands of Americans in despair, for whom the American Dream of self-reliance is impossibly out of reach?

Director: Viva Van Loock

Executive Producer: Maro Chermayeff, Jeffrey Dupre, Joshua Bennett

Producer: Maro Chermayeff, Joshua Bennett

Editor: Howard Sharp, David Hoon Newman

Music: Nathan Halpern

Language: English

Country: USA

Year: 2019

Publicist: The 2050 Group

Health and Wellness

Politics

TIGHTROPE: AMERICANS REACHING FOR HOPE

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