Hello,

Thank you for responding. I am definitely not swayed from interviewing a dancer.

Here is the run down of the documentary, if this is too long of an explanation I apologize but I want to be as transparent with what I am doing as possible.

I am driving across the country starting from the West coast and ending on the East coast. What the documentary is looking to be is a portraiture of regular Americans in 2015. What we do, what we think, what our stories are... I'm on a sort of existential quest trying to capture the American zeitgeist. The shooting of this documentary isn't a sit-down talking-heads thing by any means, I'm trying to capture the daily life and thoughts of people. It's going to be mostly following around and a lot of the subject talking. I'm not including names of my subjects (unless you want that in the credits) nor will I include the locations of shooting. The major thing I want to do is blur the lines between states and cities within the country.

To give you a better idea, I'll be interviewing fishermen in California. I'll be following one of the fishermen from the moment he rises, through his work on the boat, and then him after work doing whatever that entails. He will be mic'd up and I'll prompt him a few times if he needs something to talk about but for the most part I want him to talk to me about anything he wants. Another will be going with a real estate agent in Roswell New Mexico to show me a property, a property that happens to be an abandoned missile silo/Armageddon bunker.

For you, if you want to do this, it might be a little more complicated. Your job would have to be okay with signing a location release so I can film there. I am going to assume filming on the floor can't happen, aside from the amount of release waivers to be signed for customers would be impossible to handle. Though maybe behind the scenes can work? What I would do is follow you from before work, at work (within reason and we can talk more about this), and then whatever you do after--how ever you decompress. We will honestly just talk about whatever naturally comes up from you. I might steer the conversation to keep it within a common narrative, but there really is no script because I'm not really looking to prove something, I am just trying to show something, I'm trying to tell our stories.

If you want me to go into more details about something or you have questions please let me know, either here or through the contact information below.

I look forward to talking to you more and I hope you are still interested in participating. If you are not maybe you know someone who might be?

Thanks again!

As always,

Gary Rotter

[email protected] skype id: garyrotter The website for the film: www.theamericansfilm.com