SXSW 2008 Film Screenings
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Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father
Director: Kurt Kuenne
Cast: David Bagby, Kathleen Bagby, Dr. Andrew Bagby, Zachary Andrew, Kurt Kuenne Format: HDCam Runtime: 95 minutes More Info
screening in: Special Screenings
Screening Times9:00 PM, Monday March 10th - Alamo Lamar 1 9:00 PM, Thursday March 13th - Alamo Lamar 1 6:30 PM, Saturday March 15th - Alamo Lamar 1 everything subject to change
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www.dearzachary.com
Synopsis:
On the evening of Nov. 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby, 28, was murdered in a parking lot in western Pennsylvania. The prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, promptly fled the United States for St. John's, Newfoundland -- where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's childhood friend, originally began this film as a way for little Zachary to learn about his father. But when Shirley Turner was allowed to walk free on bail in Canada and given custody of Zachary while awaiting extradition to the United States, the film's focus shifted to Zachary's grandparents, David & Kathleen Bagby, and their desperate efforts to win custody of the boy. Director's Bio:
Kurt Kuenne is an award-winning filmmaker and composer of both fiction and documentary films, a recipient of the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He studied at the USC School of Cinema-Television, where he won the Harold Lloyd Scholarship in Film Editing; following the completion of his first feature, he was named one of the top 25 new faces of indie film by Filmmaker Magazine. His work as a writer/director/composer includes the feature teen drama "Scrapbook" starring Eric Balfour, the popular PBS documentary "Drive-In Movie Memories" and an award-winning series of comedy short films currently playing festivals around the world ("Rent-A-Person", "Validation", "Slow" and "The Phone Book"). |
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