Freedom of Speech

Drawn from over 1,000 interviews Eliza Jane Schneider conducted throughout the country, Freedom of Speech presents over thirty of the people she met in her travels. Sparked by a senior thesis project in World Arts and Cultures at UCLA (for which she received a BFA), she acquired a second-hand ambulance and criss-crossed the country in a 317,000 mile odyssey, conducting over 1,000 interviews. What began as a study of American Regional Dialects emerged as an extraordinary exploration of lives as they are lived in their wonderful variety across the expanse of this great nation.