Independent Lens

I Am Another You

Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang travels to Florida and encounters Dylan, a charismatic young drifter who left a comfortable home and loving family for a life of intentional homelessness.

I Am Another You - Trailer

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When traveling in Florida, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang encountered Dylan, a charismatic young drifter who left a comfortable home and loving family for a life of intentional homelessness. Fascinated by his choice and rejection of society's rules, Nanfu follows Dylan on a journey that takes her across America and explores the meaning and limits of freedom.

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    I Am Another You - A Kind of Freedom, with Strangers - Clip

    S19 E8 - 3m 2s

    In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film I Am Another You, filmmaker Nanfu Wang and Dylan, a homeless drifter she's only recently met, ride with a new friend who generously takes them into his home and out to dinner. There Nanfu chats with a woman from her native China about the film she is making and reveals her family back home doesn't know she's living on the streets with a stranger.

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