I Am Another You

Streaming video - 2016

When Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang (Hooligan Sparrow) first came to America, Florida seemed like an exotic frontier full of theme parks, prehistoric swamp creatures, and sunburned denizens. As she travels wide-eyed from one city to another, she eventually encounters a charismatic young drifter named Dylan.. Fascinated by his rejection of society’s rules and unsure of his past, Nanfu follows Dylan with her camera on a journey that spans years, takes her across America, and explores the meaning of freedom. But as Nanfu delves deeper into Dylan’s world, she discovers something that calls her entire worldview into question.. Winner of the Chicken & Egg Award, a Special Jury Award, and nominated for the Grand Jury Award for Best Documenta...ry Feature at SXSW Film Festival. Nominated for Best International Documentary at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.. “What starts off as a celebration of reckless freedom turns into a revelation of a broken yet soaring soul: the story of a life that resists being judged as much as it does being pigeonholed.” – Variety. “By bringing an outsider perspective to the Western world, [Wang] pulls apart the American dream from the inside out.” – Indiewire more