Abigail Disney looks at America's dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less. Using her family’s story, Disney explores how this systemic injustice took hold and imagines a way toward a more equitable future.

Directed & Produced by Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes

Abigail E. Disney is an Emmy-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, activist, and co-founder of Fork Films, a nonfiction media production company, which produces the podcast “All Ears,” where host Abigail Disney interviews bold, solutions-oriented thinkers from the front lines of America’s urgent inequality and race crises. Her documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, which she co-directed with Kathleen Hughes, made its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

Fork Films’ THE AMERICAN DREAM AND OTHER FAIRY TALES opens in Orlando on 9/16. New York, additional markets, and on VOD 9/23. Find a screening near you.

Conversation With Abigail E. Disney - Co-Director & Producer of The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales