Inspired by experimental documentaries that reveal larger social problems through eyewitness narration and haunting footage of landscapes, we mobilized legal aid organizations around the country to help us find litigants who could tell their stories about unjust legal hardships, and deployed cinematographers in their locations to capture the geographic diversity of the crisis.
To connect these individual experiences to the national story, we recruited Emmy-winning actor Lamorne Morris, fresh off of his starring debut in the Hulu series Woke, to explain the crisis from the friendly perspective of a legal aid worker who wants to help.