Coming to The WORLD Channel tonight, Monday, October 26:
TIGHTROPE: AMERICANS REACHING FOR HOPE
Director:
Viva Van Loock
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2020
About:
An investigation into America’s epidemics of opioid addiction, poverty, and incarceration.
The film screened as part of DOC NYC, for which our program notes read:
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?
