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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
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MadGez
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Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:54 am Posts: 22681 Location: Melbourne Australia
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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His FatherQuote: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is a 2008 American documentary film conceived and created by Kurt Kuenne.
Kuenne's close friend Andrew Bagby was murdered by Shirley Jane Turner after Bagby ended their tumultuous relationship. Shortly after she was arrested, she announced she was pregnant with Bagby's child, a boy she named Zachary. Kuenne decided to interview numerous relatives, friends, and associates of Andrew Bagby and incorporate their loving remembrances into a film that would serve as a cinematic scrapbook for the son who never knew him.
The film premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and was shown at Cinequest Film Festival, South by Southwest, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the Sarasota Film Festival, the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, the Calgary International Film Festival, and the Edmonton International Film Festival, among others, before going into limited theatrical release in the United States, opening in one city at a time in select metropolitan areas. It was broadcast by MSNBC on December 7, 2008 and has been repeated several times since.
Kuenne is donating all profits from the film to a scholarship established in the names of Andrew and Zachary Bagby.
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Loyal
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Re: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
While not the best made documentary of the year, it tells a story that so compelling and unbelievable and emotionally stunning, that it overcomes any technical issues it may have.
Dear Zachary reminded me quite of bit of Capturing the Friedmans in the way it gathered information and footage and perspectives from multiple sources, all while creating a tightly structed narrative along with way.
Saddest movie of 2008? Might be the saddest movie since 1908.
Stay away from spoilers if you can.
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JURiNG
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Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:45 pm Posts: 3016 Location: Cairo, Egypt
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Re: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
loyalfromlondon wrote: While not the best made documentary of the year, it tells a story that so compelling and unbelievable and emotionally stunning, that it overcomes any technical issues it may have. +1 My only problem with this film is that I wish it was a fiction..
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