This blog follows the creation of the narrative feature film "The American People" from writer/director Keith Davis.
Synopsis | Production Updates | Contact | Characters | Story Inspiration | Visuals | Music | Themes | Setting | Backstory


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    Sundance Labs Feedback

    Had a great phone session today with some advisors from the Sundance Labs (they’re helping develop the project). 

    Their remarks on the draft were stellar, thoughtful and encouraging. 

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    — 3 months ago
    #productionupdates 
    “The American People” Synopsis

    Deep in the heart of Alabama wiregrass country, a woman haunted by visions of the future struggles to find hope when a shattering loss threatens her family.

    — 4 months ago
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    Latest Draft Done!!

    We completed the 3rd draft of the script on March 25th!

    The draft has been submitted to the Sundance feature film labs for their feedback. 

    Stay tuned and continue to submit any questions or thoughts to “info @ americanpeoplefilms.com”

      — 4 months ago
      #productionupdates 
      Ozark, Alabama - 2001

      Ozark, Alabama - 2001

      — 4 months ago
      #setting 
      "…the memory of what others have forgotten— the history of the so-called vanquished…"
      Nobel Prize Committee describing the work of V.S. Naipaul
      — 4 months ago
      #themes 
      Happy Birthday, Rudy.
Today you would have been 26.  You are not forgotten.

      Happy Birthday, Rudy.

      Today you would have been 26.  You are not forgotten.

      — 4 months ago
      #rudy 
      Popcorn Clouds

      Popcorn Clouds

      — 4 months ago
      #visuals 
      John of Patmos

      We may be in the bubble right now of the biggest moment America has ever known. We’re in the middle of something real big taking place.  I want us to have a sense of seeing beyond our pain, beyond our anxiety and beyond our fears.

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      — 4 months ago
      #themes 
      "The span and weight of this story called “life” grows beyond you. You must choose to rise and take part in it otherwise you’ll be crushed by it."
      — 4 months ago
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      "People have a history,
      Written everywhere.
      On the buildings,
      On the sky,
      Over the Earth.
      But mostly on their faces."
      — 4 months ago
      #themes 
      Rudy:I just felt like a traveler seeing another traveler and wanting to stay--- how maybe my leaving meant I'd abandoned you. I wondered about you at the beginning of your own life, Mama--- still a little girl--- so strange, all of us. Before we were this--- and then nothing.
      — 4 months ago
      #characters 
      "If the world has any secrets left it’s us. The world isn’t strange, we are… I guess that’s what happens when you’re made of stardust."
      — 4 months ago
      #themes 
      "A familial struggle but also a supernatural one."
      — 4 months ago
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