4.4 • 923 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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A talented and articulate young jazz musician finds that for an "illegal," graduation marks a dead end. We follow his struggle to achieve his American dream.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. |
0:06.0 | Unfictional is a program of storytellers and documentaries made by independent producers from all over. |
0:15.4 | Today on the program, just one story about a kid named Sam. |
0:19.7 | That Monday after graduation, I woke up and I looked in the mirror and I was like whoa what do I do now? |
0:25.6 | He's a great student at an Indiana high school he's won awards as a promising |
0:30.5 | jazz musician and a charming guy. |
0:33.0 | But when he tried to fill out his college applications, |
0:36.0 | he found that no school would accept him. |
0:38.0 | His parents arrived in the US when Sam was a baby. |
0:41.0 | They overstayed their visas, and now they're here illegally, which means |
0:45.1 | despite all his hard work, Sam may be on a dead-end road. |
0:49.2 | This half hour on Unfictional, it's American Dreamer, Sam's Story. |
0:54.3 | This documentary was the winner of the Impact Award |
0:56.7 | at the 2010 Third Coast Richard Dreehouse Foundation |
1:00.2 | competition. |
1:01.6 | Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister met Sam in his last few weeks at an |
1:06.2 | Indiana high school and followed his story as he pursued his dreams of studying music |
1:11.0 | in college. Bertha is my sex fun. |
1:17.0 | I've had had Bertha is my sex fun. |
1:20.0 | I've had Bertha three three and a half years and she's old and seen some action but |
1:28.2 | she's amazing pretty much girlfriend takes first place though. My name is Sam. I'm 18. I'm a senior here at Central and I'm in the band and stuff and jazz band and I was a drum major this year and the past four years have been great and I'm finally |
1:49.4 | ready to graduate and get out of here. |
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