An intimate look at a community's struggle to understand what it means to be American.

Welcome to Shelbyville Independent Lens

Premiered May 24, 2011
Welcome to Shelbyville

Set in the heart of America's Bible Belt, this film focuses on a small Southern town as they grapple with rapid demographic change and issues of immigrant integration. The film captures the complexity of the African American, Latino, white, and Somali subjects as their lives intertwine against the backdrop of a crumbling economy and the election of a new president.

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