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Watch Sarah’s Uncertain Path: An Op-Doc from the Directors of Rich Hill
Sarah's Uncertain Path For their Op-Doc collaboration with Sundance Institute grantees, The New York Times tapped 25 New Face Andrew Droz Palermo and his cousin Tracy Droz Tragos, filmmakers behind the Sundance title Rich Hill, to produce a short profile of Sarah, a pregnant Midwestern teen, struggling to strike out against her familial trajectory.
Sarah’s Uncertain Path acts as a microcosm for what Droz Palermo and Droz Tragos call “a myth in America.” “If you have a strong moral compass, work hard and make good choices, you will have equal opportunity,” they write of this unfulfilled promise. “But after two years of listening to and documenting low-income families in rural America [Rich Hill was named for the town in Missouri], we have witnessed a starkly unequal playing field.”
Watch the beautiful short over at The Times.
