What Is Broken In America And How Do We Fix It? ‘Amerigo’s David McCourt Has Some Thoughts – SXSW

Irish American Producer David McCourt Interviewed 1,000 People About the American Dream’ in New Doc ‘Amerigo’: ‘Is It Still Possible? And If Not, Is This the Country We Want to Live In?’

Irish American documentary producer David McCourt sat down for a fireside chat with “Ocean’s Twelve” and “The Bourne Ultimatum” director George Nolfi at SXSW on Friday, where they discussed McCourt’s upcoming PBS documentary “Amerigo: The Search for the American Dream.” As shown in a trailer that Variety can exclusively unveil, the film features interviews with people all over the United States who discuss the the concept of the American Dream…

What Is Broken In America And How Do We Fix It? ‘Amerigo’s David McCourt Has Some Thoughts – SXSW

With his new docuseries Amerigo coming to PBS, Emmy-winning producer David McCourt wanted to examine a complicated question. If his own grandfather “came to this country at 16 years old, uneducated, got a job as a janitor, raised my mother, bought a home, and died debt-free,” do these possibilities still exist for the average American today? “And if [they’re] not possible,” he asks, “is that the country we want to live in?” Examining what …