After America (2021)
A group of criminal justice de-escalation workers in Minneapolis embark on a collaborative film project that uses radical workshop techniques to explore their real-life struggles to escape the pressures of the American dream.
- Date of release
- 2021-02-12
- TMDB
- 4.8 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Jake Yuzna
Casting
- Yvonne Freese
- Theresa McConnon
- Daniel Nies
- Ahmed Yusuf
- Dan Fox
- Eli Anthony
- Robert Dante
- Jianna Maarten
- Adam Olson
- Gaea Gaddy
- Benjamin Fredrickson
- Tate Sheppard
Interesting facts
After America is a 2021 American drama film, written and directed by Jake Yuzna. Created through an open call in 2019, the film follows a group of criminal justice de-escalation workers in Minneapolis, MN who gather in order to confront the failures they faced in their jobs and personal lives. Employing radical theater workshop techniques devised by Jake Yuzna, this unorthodox group developed a series of interwoven stories based on their real lives. The resulting film merged improvised and devised performances to blur together the usually separate filmmaking traditions of scripted and nonfiction.
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