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For countless middle-class families who have experienced job loss or an unexpected financial setback, the American Dream has become an American nightmare.  Working families, seemingly on a path toward economic security, have discovered how quickly they can slip from the middle class into poverty.  Emmy^®-winning filmmakers Joe and Harry Gantz (HBO's Taxicab Confessions; The Defenders) feature struggling Oregon families who called into the state's "211info" social services hotline in search of help in the winter of 2012 when American Winter debuts Monday, March 18 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO. The film presents an intimate snapshot of the state of the nation's economy as it is playing out in the lives of many American families, and reveals the human consequences of rising economic insecurity, budget cuts to the social safety net, and the fracturing of the American Dream.

American Winter is directed by Joe Gantz; producers, Joe and Harry Gantz; co-producers, Aaron I. Butler and Devon Terrill; co-director, Harry Gantz; editor, Aaron I. Butler;  music, Joel Goodman; directors of photography, Patrick Thelander and Dan Morris.  For HBO: supervising producer, Sara Bernstein; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.

American Winter is a project of IDA's Fiscal Sponsorship Program.