Freedom
What does liberty mean without access to work, ownership, credit, property, contracts, and economic security?
The Project
The Pursuit is a cinematic public story about the American Dream as lived by people who pursue freedom, dignity, security, ownership, family provision, and legacy through very different paths.
What the film asks
How has the American promise of liberty, independence, property, work, enterprise, and self-determination been understood, expanded, contested, and experienced by different communities across American history?
The project is not limited to one category of business owner or one community. It is built to include multiple perspectives: Black, white, immigrant, wealthy, working class, poor, young, old, veterans, bankers, historians, athletes, entrepreneurs, street-level survivors, and people who tried to build but were blocked or broken by the attempt.
Narrative spine
From ideals to lived realities
Opportunity
How do systems, family inheritance, geography, law, race, class, immigration, and capital shape who gets a viable path?
Legacy
Why do people keep attempting the dream, even when the odds, rules, and outcomes are uneven?