Prodigal sons
2008
DVD
"Returning home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, [filmmaker Kimberly] Reed hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother...along the way [the film] uncovers stunning revelations...and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender...Questions of sexual orientation, identity, severe trauma and family love are effortlessly explored as the subjects freely open up their lives to the camera." -- Container.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
Target Audience Note: CHVR: NR.
Notes:
- Film was originally released in 2008.
- Special features: Doc short: The Return of Prodigal Sons; questions & answers with Rick Moody & others; words from the family.
- Music, Mark McKerrow ; director of photography, John Keitel ; editors, Shannon Kennedy, Kimberly Reed.
- Featuring, Kimberly Reed, Carol McKerrow, Marc McKerrow, Claire Jones.
- DVD-R, NTSC, all regions ; 16:9 widescreen.
- Closed-captioned.
- Winner, Best Documentary Jury Prize, NewFest ; Winner, FIPRESCI prize, Best Film, Thessaloniki documentary film fest ; Winner, Best of Fest audience award, Palm Springs Int'l film fest.
Control Number: 1902283
Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Big Sky Film Productions, [2008]Subjects:
- Adoptees -- Family relationships.
- Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients.
- Families -- Montana -- Personal narratives.
- Family reunions -- Personal narratives.
- Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Personal narratives.
- Parents of transsexuals -- Montana.
- Reconciliation -- Family -- Personal narratives.
- Siblings -- Personal narratives.
- Transgender people -- Personal narratives.
- Transsexuals -- Personal narratives.
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