POV - My American Girls . Trailer | PBS

MY AMERICAN GIRLS IS STREAMING IN ITS ENTIRETY ON http://www.pbs.org/pov/videos.html FROM FEBRUARY 2, 2009 TO APRIL 2, 2009.

In vivid verite detail, My American Girls: A Dominican Story captures the joys and struggles over a year in the lives of the Ortiz family, first generation immigrants from the Dominican Republic. Through stories of hard-working parents, who imagine retiring to their rural homeland, and fast-tracking American-born daughters, caught between their parent's values and their own, the film encompasses the contradictions of contemporary immigrant life.

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• dominican republican
• dominican immigrants
• immigrants
• dominican american
• dominican girls
• first generation