HITN Media, the leading Spanish-language public media network in the United States, will premiere El Sueño Americano, a special Spanish-language edition of the award-winning documentary Amerigo: The Search for the American Dream, on Sunday, September 20, at 8:00 p.m. EDT/PDT on HITN TV. The program will also be available on demand via the HITNGo digital streaming platform beginning that day. The broadcast arrives as part of HITN’s Hispanic Heritage Month programming, which includes never-before-aired capsules filmed by the Amerigo crew, drawn from the ongoing companion campaign AD250.com.
The documentary’s importance lies in its timing and its data-driven focus on a demographic shift in American entrepreneurship. Amid the search for what opportunity means today, new data points to nearly one in four new U.S. entrepreneurs being Hispanic or Latino, up from roughly one in ten twenty-five years ago. That statistic underscores that while opportunity remains unevenly distributed, it is being created and claimed at a rapidly growing rate by Hispanic and Latino Americans. The special invites Hispanic audiences to engage in a broad, nonpartisan dialogue about opportunity, family, work, belonging, and the future of the country.
Hosted by Emmy Award-winning producer, entrepreneur and bestselling author David McCourt, El Sueño Americano explores a question that continues to resonate across communities and generations: What does the American Dream look like today? McCourt spent two years traveling the country speaking with more than 1,000 Americans from all walks of life, capturing a portrait of a nation in transition through stories of struggle, resilience, and optimism. The unscripted conversations reveal a country still working out what opportunity means today.
“When I set out to make Amerigo, I wanted to understand what the American Dream looks like today through the voices of people actually living it. What we found again and again is that Hispanic and Latino Americans are driving it. The idea that one in four new businesses in this country are being started by Hispanic and Latino entrepreneurs, up from one in ten a generation ago, is exactly what I hoped to capture when I set out to make this film,” said McCourt.
Michael Nieves, president and CEO of HITN Media, added, “The stories of Hispanic and Latino Americans are an important part of the American story. Amerigo highlights their contributions and aspirations, making it a natural fit for HITN and our commitment to telling stories that reflect our community.”
Directed by Adam Mason and co-produced by David and Julie McCourt of McCourt Entertainment, El Sueño Americano is adapted from Amerigo: The Search for the American Dream, which examines the evolving reality of the American Dream. The original film, presented by South Florida PBS and distributed nationally by American Public Television (APT), brings together unscripted interviews with everyday people and insights from notable voices to present a panoramic portrait of a country considering its future.
For more information, to access the special on HITNGo, and to watch the exclusive El Sueño Americano capsules throughout Hispanic Heritage Month, visit hitn.tv/american-dream.
