Dirty Myrtle

Dirty Myrtle

2025 · 15 min · ★ 10.0

This short documentary film examines the tourism-focused economy of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and the slow creep of gaudy political rhetoric into a world of souvenir tchotchkes.

Directed by Matthew L. Young

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