An Inaugural Ride to Freedom
Winner of the 2010 Emmy Award for Best Documentary-Cultural.
45 mins
This heartwarming and at times touching documentary chronicles the preparation, experience, and aftermath of the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Black Studies Department, students, and community persons as they embark upon the inauguration of President Barack Obama. A mixture of cinema verity and interview, this documentary provides an eyewitness accounting of the event through emerging primary stories representative of a broad array of cultural and occupational backgrounds. It is the cinematic documentation of the joy, the laughter, and the tears as 55 passengers board a bus and travel over 2,000 miles for an experience of a lifetime.
Ian Rothenberg
Production Assistant
Stephanie Hearn Purcell
Assistant Director
Eric B. Harvey
Sound Mixer
Vikki White
Production Assistant
Omowale Akintunde
Writer
Chris Julian
Foley Mixer
Max Rothenberg
Production Assistant
Daria Matza
Editor
Chris Julian
Music
Mark Devendorf
Editor
Seth Quartey
Boom Operator
Omowale Akintunde
Director
Omowale Akintunde
Executive Producer
Andrew Koch
Director of Photography