After decades of urbanization, Americans are beginning to flee the noise and hustle of
big cities to return to the quiet and sustainability of the land. 277 New Yorkers, 201
Angelenos, and 161 Chicagoans move out of their cities each day, which is more than
double the last year’s rate.
Younger generations are leading the exodus, citing the near-
impossibility of home ownership under a skyrocketing cost of living. Despite its history
as the traditional mark of success in this country, owning property no longer holds
appeal in millennial eyes.
Many of these younger Americans trade in the conventional
brick-and-mortar house for motorhomes, favoring their sustainability and mobility. Our
documentary seeks to explore this new American homestead and the modern nomads living it.
This documentary will follow a few of the one million Americans that have left their stationary
homes on the traditional suburban block in favor of motor homes equipped with
kitchens, baths, and bedrooms.
Over the course of a year, Anna will travel across the
country in an Airstream trailer to live with and explore three types of unorthodox
communities: Harvest Host Locations, which have RV camping at 1321+ wineries,
breweries, farms and attractions across America; WWOOF (willing workers on organic
farms) host farms, which is a cultural and educational program offering free room and
board to members in exchange for their participation in farm work, and BLM land.
Although there’s no official term for this lifestyle, most refer to themselves as digital
nomads, workampers, and/or full-time RVers.
Understanding the need to replace old ideals of material ownership, these
contemporary pioneers measure success not through excess, but instead strip down
their possessions to the essentials, living a “near-the-grid” lifestyle.
We want to focus on
a select few of the most important moments and people participating in this movement
to highlight the wide range of reasons for their nomadism, including the freedom to
travel, a return to nature, and living a more sustainable lifestyle.
Most of these people need jobs to fund their travels, opting for novel modes of work to
support their novel lifestyle. Some work remotely by logging in from their motor home.
Others pick up “gig work” from sites like Workamper or from Workamper Facebook
groups, some which have over 40k members. Big companies, like Amazon and J.C.
Penney, have programs that specifically recruit RVers to help at warehouses during
holiday seasons.
We would like to delve into the different types of people living and
working out of their trailer and also get to know the people and companies that make it
possible: including retailers and renovation projects, people using the trailers as hotels,
families who have gone “off the grid,” and creatives using the mobility and space of
trailers as a traveling office.
is the editor's first cut of the entire movie. The editor strings together all of the usable footage and organizes it into a chronological sequence that corresponds with the film's script.
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and we plan to keep shooting until November 1st, 2021. I (Anna) am editing while I'm on the road so I plan to have the Documentary ready by November 1st 2021 as well. This is my "public accountability" page that I update weekly to show how to make a documentary from start to finish.
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