Filmed in 2005 But So Relevant in 2017: I AM ORANGE COUNTY
View the FILM on DailyMotion “I Am Orange County” originated as a 2005 technology grant students program to further social justice. Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center and Orange County Human Relations worked with at-risk youth in four Santa Ana schools. The students created a 30-minute documentary, photo essays and a website about their experience. Barraged with TV images of Orange County representing the rich and the wealthy (Laguna Beach on MTV, The OC on Fox, Arrested Development on Fox, OC Housewives on Bravo), the silent majority explored its identity. The students in Santa Ana have awoken. Their documentary expresses strongly and very positively what their lives are about. They address prejudice and immigration, life in the OC as part of the hardworking and neglected majority. They documented the immigration marches in Los Angeles and Santa Ana. Their personal stories are positive. These students, all classified "at-risk" at the star
