About this episode

Filmmaker Hyunsoo Moon discusses immigration, identity, and his documentary work on immigrant families in America.

In this episode of the Defense of Democracy podcast, host Addison K. Witt sits down with filmmaker Hyunsoo Moon, director of the documentary The Americans, for a deeply personal conversation about immigration, identity, belonging, and the meaning of the American Dream. Over the course of seven years filming immigrant families in Storm Lake, Iowa, Moon followed the lives of refugees and workers connected to America’s meatpacking industry, documenting not only hardship and sacrifice, but resil...

People in this episode

Host: Addison K. Witt

Guest: Hyunsoo Moon

Topics covered

• immigration
• identity
• documentary filmmaking
• American Dream
• belonging
• meatpacking industry

Keywords

• immigration
• identity
• documentary
• American Dream
• meatpacking
• refugees
• Storm Lake

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Americans

Places: Storm Lake, Iowa

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