Director, Producer, Cinematographer: Amy Nicholson
Genre: Feature Documentary
Run Time: 1 hour 18 minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
Editors: John Young, Laura Israel
Composers: Troy Heroin, J.R. Narrows
Official Selection at DOCNYC (World Premiere), SF DocFest, Atlanta Film Festival and many more.
Award-winning documentary HAPPY CAMPERS opens at the IFC Center Theater in New York on August 7th and at Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles on August 21st and a nationwide US and Canada VOD release on IiTunes on Sept 10th.
HAPPY CAMPERS chronicles the final days of a working-class summer colony in a scrappy trailer park that just happens to hold the secret to a rich life.
In a waterfront campground off the coast of Virginia, residents spend their summers living spitting distance apart in rust-bitten RVs. They chuckle about the modest rent they pay for a million-dollar location, but what makes them the luckiest people in the world is more than just stunning sunsets, it’s the community they’ve created.
Beneath cliched trailer park stereotypes lies an unlikely utopia where all are welcome. Neighbors help each other out, and share everything from power tools to simple pleasures. Loneliness and isolation are inconceivable.
When their affordable paradise is sold to developers, the residents brace for eviction and the loss of friendships that span generations. They hold tight to their final days in the sun. The well-heeled crowd that takes their place will never be as wealthy.