Three white collar commuters recall an experience of getting trapped on a train in San Francisco's transbay tunnel, each drifting into fantasies of sex, death, and other intimacies with strangers.

Sinking Feeling

Three white collar commuters recall an experience of getting trapped on a train in San Francisco's transbay tunnel, each drifting into fantasies of sex, death, and other intimacies with strangers.

Kyle Jordan is an aimless 20 something, working a dead end job and living with his high school sweetheart, Sammi. One day, he decides to finally pursue his dream of becoming a live streamer, on Viewr, a popular streaming site. After weeks with no progress, he quits his job to do streaming full time, creating a rift between him and Sammi. Things come to a head when Kyle sexts one of his underage fans, and Sammi finds out. She breaks up with him, forcing Kyle to move back in with his parents. He streams again, and has a mental breakdown when he realizes Sammi is in a new relationship. The breakdown goes viral, and Kyle becomes famous overnight, amassing an audience who mock him incessantly. "The feature debut from Chandler Chavez, American Stream is a landmark film and stand-out among this year's selections, not because it plays like an actual live stream, but because it shows the lengths to which streamers will go in order to achieve fame. And it's a ride!" - MdFF programming team

AMERICAN STREAM

Kyle, a college dropout, risks it all to make it big as a Viewr videogame streamer.

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