Documentary Samples Documentary Samples Home Sweet Home Emigration is becoming the quintessential experience of our time. Home Sweet Home is a documentary videotape which examines the concept of home in relationship to American values and myths from both an anthropological and philosophical perspective. It is compromised of interviews of emigres from different socio-economic backgrounds both in America and abroad, in an attempt to let them tell their own stories. Ranging from a Polish family living in Canada and America, to a South African emigre living in Toronto, to a professor working in Buffalo, but living part-time in her "home" Alaska, to a world traveler and philosopher, the tape concludes with thoughts from someone who has never traveled and never wants to leave "home". The significance of this project is to identify alternative meanings of what it means to be "homeless". Screenings and Festivals 2000 Lily Guernsey International Film and Video Festival Highly Commended - Documentary Category 1999 DUTV cable 54 Jan/Feb, Community cultural educational television,Philadelphia 1998 Smoky Mountain/Nantahala Media Festival, N.C. Honorable Mention - Documentary Category 1997 Lockport Community Television "New Directions in Video" Lockport public access cable channel 20 1997 Buffalo Movie Video Makers, Buffalo, N.Y. 1996 NAMAC (National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture), Oakland, CA. 1993 Upstate Media Regrant, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y. Copyright 2011    Wendy Smith     Cinemagic Productions (585) 546-3063 wendy@cinemagicprod.com