Occupy Wall Street commenced last Fall just in time for the holiday season, and many occupiers prepared for their annual pilgrimages back home to face a barrage of questions from their families. This creative short anticipated this quandary, serving as a primer for broaching these issues over Thanksgiving turkey.

Actor Chris Keener plays an occupier, his mother, his father, his brother-in-law and his grandmother, Nutty Professor-style, and explains to each how they each have a horse in this race, whether they like it or not, because the deck is stacked in favor of the 1%.

"Occupy Wall Street: A Holiday Survival Guide was a collaboration between a number of DC-based filmmakers and creatives," writer Rob Shore said. "Though we all had different jobs, politics, and backgrounds, the best of what Occupy represented resonated deeply with us. We were frustrated as those who felt threatened by the movement began to spin its participants and goals as a bunch of police car-shitting hippies bent on destruction. As gainfully employed ("Occuployed," one might say) 20 and 30-somethings, our presence at Occupy DC was limited to evenings and weekends and we wanted to find a way to have a broader impact. We used our collective talents as filmmakers, actors, and communication experts to craft a strategic message template packaged in a short season-appropriate comedy that many people could identify with: going home for the holidays and arguing around the dinner table. The message template conforms to the best practices in the field of strategic communication: values prime the audience for what they are about to see and tell them "what this is about;" metaphors help to explain complex phenomena in ways that are more easily digestible; and solutions leave people with a sense that something specific and achievable can be done. We hope the video and its message can help breathe new life into the movement this spring."