The #1 Bus Chronicles
PBS Broadcast, 2026:
NJ PBS 01/21/2026 8pm
NJ PBS 01/22/2026 4:30pm
NJ PBS 01/23/2026 2am
NJ PBS 01/24/2026 6:30pm
WLIW PBS 02/10/2026 9:30pm
WLIW PBS 02/12/2026 3:30am
Montclair Film screening at the Clairidge Theater:
Wednesday, February 11 at 7pm - Benefit for Toni’s Kitchen
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Featured at Ethnografilm Paris 2024, in distribution by Third World Newsreel, and available streaming on RELAY.
Focusing on a single bus stop on an industrial highway in New Jersey, “The #1 Bus Chronicles” examines the lives of riders who include the working poor, families of the recently incarcerated, immigration asylum seekers and drifters of all kinds. In touchingly intimate encounters, riders share their hopes and dreams as they show us their workplaces, homes and day-to-day lives. The film presents stories of love, transition, loss and ultimately resilience.
screenings and awards:
Best Documentary, Golden Door International Film Festival, Jersey City, 2019.
Director’s Choice, Black Maria Film Festival, 2020.
Creativity Award, Show for Change Festival, 2020.
Maysles Documentary Center Virtual Cinema, 2020.
Social Justice Film Festival, 2020.
Newark Public Library, Thursday, October 15, 2020
American Cities Rebuilding Conference, October 14-16, 2020.
Scribe Video Center, Wednesday March 30, 2022, 7pm.
Now in distribution through Third World Newsreel
Carlos ‘Los’ Aguiar, one of the main characters
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in Bus Chronicles uses The #1 Bus Chronicles uses a small sociological microcosm – a bus stop on an industrial highway in New Jersey – to intimately portray some of the most marginalized lives in America today - the ‘working poor’, the recently incarcerated, and immigration asylum seekers. In startlingly intimate encounters, strangers share hopes and dreams as well as stories of resiliency, suffering and loss. Many are in states of transition, struggle, or waiting for change. small sociological microcosm – a bus stop on an industrial highway in New Jersey – to intimately portray some of the most marginalized lives in America today - the ‘working poor’, the recently incarcerated, and immigration asylum seekers. In startlingly intimate encounters, strangers share hopes and dreams as well as stories of resiliency, suffering and loss. Many are in states of transition, struggle, or waiting for change.