Max Kennedy and the American Dream

This is a surreal exploration of the fractured and often contradictory psyche of a self-proclaimed revolutionary and rabid iconoclast, who simply refuses to fit into preconceived slots assigned to him by the mainstream media, academia or the political dichotomy of Liberal and Conservative.

Woven into the main narrative and serving as a backdrop, are scores of colorful and fascinating characters on both sides of the divide, literally and metaphorically, whose individual stories cast a penetrating light on the U.S-Mexico border issue, human trafficking, first-world poverty and right wing hate politics.

It puts a radically new slant on the concept of the 'American Dream'… as seen through the eyes of those who fight from it's trenches. The well worn bromides of Right and Left are held up to a merciless eye. Through the POV of Max and fellow victims on the other side of the Border, many prevailing myths and popular stereotypes are shattered.

The camera has gone into places and interacted with people hitherto unknown to the public eye. It has become a best friend and confidant to a person who has never known any... and in the process captured some truly revealing, poignant and also ugly moments
It is a deep, probing and intimate study of an individual who the filmmaker believes contains all that is ugly, xenophobic, hateful about the human condition, but yet strangely transcendental and liberating as well.

Ultimately an undefinable contradiction that is emblematic to and holds the key to unlocking the post-modern, pre-apocalyptic human dilemma.