Monrovia, Indiana (2018) (Sneak Peek)
Forty-six million Americans live in rural, small town America. These towns were once the backbone of American life. While their number and populations have shrunk, the importance of rural America as a formative center of American politics and values was demonstrated in the 2016 presidential election. To understand more about American life, it is important acknowledge the unique and important contributions small towns make to American character and culture, in addition to providing most of our food, raw materials and drinking water.
The film explores the conflicting stereotypes and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a rural, mid-American way of life that has always been important in America but whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America and in other countries.
Followed by with Q&A with filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
Supported by Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Closed to Press
Who's Attending
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Rea Tajiri
Producer/Director/Ghost Pictures, Associate Professor/Temple University -
Robert Bahar
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Almudena Carracedo
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joel stonington
Senior Commissioning Producer, AJ+ -
Carla Gutierrez
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Kevin Ripp
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Ines Sommer
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Jackie Weissman
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Gretchen Landau
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Richard Cooper
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Nara Garber
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Rachel Raney
UNC-TV & REEL SOUTH -
Jason Cohn
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Angela Tucker
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Alejandra Espasande
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Alexandra Hannibal
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Hanul Bahm
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jeanelle augustin
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Colleen Thurston
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Mitch Levine
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Ray Whitehouse
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Sami Khan
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Rich Remsberg
Archival Producer -
Susan Yin
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Joel Schroeder
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Jennie Livingston
Earth Camp One LLC -
eva kozanecka
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Kate Amend,
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Michael Kuehnert
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Joanne Feinberg
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Sally Nellson
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Jason Cooper
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Helki Frantzen
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Sara Terry
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Rahdi Taylor
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Cynthia Hill
Markay Media -
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