"It's our journey, but it is America's story," says Austin Chu, the older of two brothers who drove across the country last year to create a video documentary of the recession. Their project may remind us of some of the famous images that grew out of the Great Depression, photographs such as the "Migrant Mother" series by Dorothea Lange in the 1930s. The video documentary, The Recess Ends, debuts on the internet this Sunday night. It is America's story explains Austin, because the documentary (shot between January and June 2009), is narrated by the people, the sounds and the scenes of the United States during the heart of the recession. The film is woven together in a flowing narrative told by a cross section of Americans of different ages and financial standings as well as religious and ethnic backgrounds. Austin, 26,...
- 1/15/2010
- by Cari Shane Parven
- Huffington Post
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