Combining fresh voices, entertainment, and thematic storytelling, Asterlight provides resources for emerging film and video productions. Powerful stories, told beautifully, change the world.
Combining fresh voices, entertainment, and thematic storytelling, Asterlight provides resources for emerging film and video productions. Powerful stories, told beautifully, change the world.
We believe in connections. Our business gives us the opportunity to meet and connect with inspired and inventive filmmakers, writers, and producers. Many are changing the media and mediums by which we can reach and engage an audience. Others continue to create, inspire, and entertain through their unique stories and entertaining productions forging a different kind of connection with today’s audiences. Asterlight provides resources to help independent creative productions share their stories and voices to ultimately connect with and inspire today’s audiences.
We believe in connections. Our business gives us the opportunity to meet and connect with inspired and inventive filmmakers, writers, and producers. Many are changing the media and mediums by which we can reach and engage an audience. Others continue to create, inspire, and entertain through their unique stories and entertaining productions forging a different kind of connection with today’s audiences. Asterlight provides resources to help independent creative productions share their stories and voices to ultimately connect with and inspire today’s audiences.
The American Sector is a documentary about the Berlin Wall’s legacy in American political discourse. In one sense, the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th, 1989. But in another sense, it still stands, its concrete panels now installed as monuments to their own collapse.
From the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to Ripley’s Believe-It-Or-Not, The American Sector captures the sixty-some locations, all across the United States, in which these public monuments have been installed. By exploring these sites, the film tries to answer: what does this obsolete German barrier represent to Americans today? Using observational footage, as well as extensive interviews with curators, tourists, and casual passersby, the film draws out the mix of symbolism and rhetoric, history and memory, that informs Americans’ recollections of the Cold War and, by extension, of the country’s current relationship to the world beyond its borders.
