The Battle for Florida — Season 1, Episode 3: Freedom from scarcity
Documentary, News • 46 min • 1 season, 4 episodes
Episode synopsis
Every year, many millions of Americans visit Disney World and the surrounding theme parks near Orlando. But in Disney's shadow, Gen Zers are struggling with their future. During the day Cree rides a roller coaster, in the evening he returns to the motel where he lives with his mother, brothers and sister. Community worker Jacob tries to help peers like Cree. Valeria left her native El Salvador for the United States, but is her ideal for the future - her own house, a good job - still feasible for her generation?
About The Battle for Florida
In the year of the presidential elections in the US, journalist Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal and director Hans Pool sketch a portrait of the most activist generation since the 1970s: Generation Z. However, the freedom they demand collides with other freedoms, and nowhere does that collision occur as on the surface as in Florida, a state where 'freedom' is rotten in everyone's mouth.