I'm a Northerner, a Boston-bred Jew. But, somewhere along the way, Arkansas became my second home.

I've spent years living in Arkansas, and this little Arkansas county now feels very familiar to me. I have passed this livestock auction house many times - it's just off of the county's one traffic light - and I had always wanted to film it. One day, I finally brought my camera and... well, I just hope I created a piece that is respectful and honest, a view into a little-known world through the eyes of an outsider.

This short film depicts the little-known and unusual world of the Searcy County Livestock Auction in Marshall, Arkansas.

About Noam Osband

An anthropologist and filmmaker, Noam Osband's prior work includes co-producing, co-editing, and filming "Sobresalir," a documentary about immigrant parents’ navigating the American public school system. He won the Penn Dean’s Award for New Media which allowed him to build his own version of Errol Morris’ Interrotron and complete principal photography for a short about Baruch Marzel, a prominent radical Israeli settler. His first feature length documentary, "Adelante," a film about Mexican immigration to a historically Irish Catholic church outside of Philadelphia, will air later this year on PBS in Philadelphia.

Recently, he began shooting a feature-length documentary about Mexican guest workers in the southeast United States, a film that will serve as his dissertation for his PhD in anthropology. This will be the first documentary film ever submitted for a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.