From the producers

The Blue Shirt Sisters

When the original film was produced in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2019, the city had just witnessed a rash of community shootings and police inspired anger. At the movie screening, affected families and one of the attending police officers embraced while a stunned, tearful crowd looked on. Healing started at that moment but the families standing before the audience clearly appeared solemn and braced for the long road ahead.

Always Hope is born of a deep desire to address the ‘fatigue of our country’, part of which is due to an escalation of community and police violence in many U.S. cities.

Who will be there for these families, after the blaring lights of media attention and initial public expressions of sympathy and loss fade into yesterday’s news? Always Hope will be there.

In 2020, the entire world was involuntary pushed into the era of the ‘pandemic’. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 375,000 died and COVID19 became the necessary obsession of our country. The stewpot of rising political and economic pressures erupted and police violence ignited another round of community depression and community members turned on each other.

We crawled to the other side of the pandemic, but many Americans remain downcast, uncertain and fearful about our future. The political divide created over mandatory vaccinations, and concerns about new variants are on the rise.2

Between the cracked smiles of ‘life in the new normal’ and furrowed eyebrows of ‘what’s next’? Always Hope offers a message of peace and choice to sustain hope in the new era of ‘What Happens Now?’. It feels like constant change is the new normal. And a world of constant change may be the new normal for the days ahead.
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Cincinnati, Ohio

The original ‘short’ Always Hope film was produced in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and the 64th in the United States with a city population estimated at 303, 940. Nicknamed, Cincy, Cincinnati is not only the home of Hollywood mogul Steven Spielberg, it also boasts the famous ‘Cincinnati Chili’ and world famous Oktoberfest celebration. It is also home to America’s oldest baseball team.

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Dallas, Texas

The second installment in the Always Hope series in Always Hope Dallas (AHD) filmed on location in Dallas, Texas.

Dallas is the ninth largest city in the U.S. and the third largest in Texas with a population of 1.28 million. The total population of the Dallas-Fort Worth Arlington MSA totals 6.954 million.

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