Chasing The American Dream (Award-Winning Documentary) | Real Stories

At the start of the 20th century, award-winning filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, Abacus: Small Enough To Jail) and his team spent four years filming a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America. We follow an Indian couple to Silicon Valley through the dot-com boom and bust. A Mexican meatpacker struggles to reunite his family in rural Kansas. Two families of Nigerian refugees (including the sister of slain Ogoni activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa) escape government persecution. Two Los Angeles Dodgers prospects follow their big dreams of escaping the barrios of the Dominican Republic. A Palestinian woman who marries into a new life in Chicago only to discover in the wake of September 11, she cannot leave behind the pain of her homeland’s conflict. Awards Won: 2003 International Documentary Association (IDA)-Best Limited Series, Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards 2004 Chicago International Television Competiti