ABOUT THE FILM

Finding Home explores the concept of home at the beginning of the 21st century from a working woman's Do-It-Yourself sensibility.

Megan O'Connor, the San Diego-based filmmaker, takes the viewer to the blizzards of Beatrice, Nebraska, both her hometown and the location of the Homestead National Monument, only to discover that home isn't necessarily where you were raised. Unfortunately, it isn't where you live at any given moment either, she learns by polling everyone from her Generation X friends to the homeless of Southern California. O'Connor's journey unfolds while the concept of "home" takes center stage in politics, as the 2008 election reaches a crescendo and the mortgage crisis slams the nation.

A first-person film that will remind documentary fans of Ross McElwee, Finding Home universally resonates with renters, homeowners, and anyone who feels lost and lonely in contemporary society.

Directed and edited by Megan O'Connor

Featuring music by:
Jamuel Saxon
Vision of a Dying World
Drew Andrews
Joel P. West
Spencer Rabin

Saturday, October 31, 2009

My House

I would never be able to call San Diego home, in any way, if it weren't for Adriene and Jim, not to mention Steven, Emily, Randall, Adrian, Zach, Julie, Anita, Michael, and Trish. They are the walls of my house.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Not feeling at Home

I think my sense of homesickness does not have to do with being away from any particular place, more often it has to do with feeling alienated from the people around me, feeling lonely. We must all experience that. I often wonder about my grandpa in the last years of his life, living alone is a small isolated little town in Nebraska. It's one thing to be lonely when your young but it seems like such an injustice to be lonely when your old. I guess that's life, ultimately we go through it by ourselves, we make our homes the best we can.

Finding Home not real estate

I'm amused that findinghome.com is a real estate website. I should have guessed.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Finding Home is within sight.

It's October 27th, 2009. I'm going to write this, then go edit. I need to make a few small changes before I print the finished film to tape. I'm almost done now, but a year ago I was worried about finishing, very worried. I thought not finishing the film would kill me, good thing I'm finishing it! As for finding my home? Well, that's another story.