Don’t miss filmmaker Kimberly Reed talking about her film Prodigal Sons on The Oprah Winfrey Show today (Thursday February 11th)!!
Prodigal Sons has been called “One of the most acclaimed documentaries of 2009!” by Indiewire, “An example of superb documentary filmmaking.” by The San Francisco Chronicle and hailed by the Viennale Jury saying “If you want to only see one documentary this year, it would have to be Prodigal Sons!”
Now the recipient of 12 awards, (including a FIPRESCI at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Jury Prizes at both Florida and Nashville Film Festivals for Bravery in Storytelling and Fearless Filmmaking, Best Documentary at Copenhagen and Tampa’s LGBT Festivals and more!) Prodigal Sons is about to embark on a US theatrical release, opening in NYC on February 11th and playing in 15 cities across the country!
In the run up to the theatrical launch, Reed and the film are getting extensive media attention. Reed has just been featured in an in-depth article in Details Magazine, which you can read here.
Click here www.prodigalsonsfilm.com to watch the trailer and please feel free to email us for a screener and/or more information!
I am proud to say that I was the co-producer of Prodigal Sons and we pre-sold it to BBC Storyville, IFC/Canada, CBC/Canada and The Sundance Channel. It has since been sold to SVT/Sweden, YLE/Finland, YES/Israel and DR/Denmark.
A Big Sky Film production in association with CBC/Canada, BBC “Storyville” and Sundance Channel
Director: Kimberly Reed
Producers: Kimberly Reed, John Keitel
Executive Producers: Gail Silva, Robert Hawk
Editor: Shannon Kennedy
Co-Producer: Louise Rosen
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, Marc. But along the way she uncovers stunning revelations, including his blood relationship with Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, intense sibling rivalries and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender that force them to face challenges no one could imagine.
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Best Documentary Jury Prize at NewFest, and Special Jury Prizes for Fearless Filmmaking at the Florida Film Festival and Bravery in Storytelling at the Nashville Film Festival, PRODIGAL SONS is a raw and provocative examination of one family’s struggle to come to terms with its past and present.
Filmmaker Kimberly Reed dives headfirst into an unflinching portrait of her family that is absolutely engrossing and marks her coming-out, in more ways than one. Returning home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, Reed hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother. But along the way PRODIGAL SONS uncovers stunning revelations, including a blood relationship with Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, intense sibling rivalries and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender. Reed’s rare access delicately reveals not only the family’s most private moments, but also an epic scope as the film travels from Montana to Croatia, from jail cell to football field, from deaths to births. Kim Reed’s compassionate vérité style of filmmaking captures the lives of her family in such an organic way that their exceptional and challenging stories puncture the surface of our expectations. Questions of sexual orientation, identity, severe trauma and family love are effortlessly explored as the subjects freely open up their lives to the camera. Raw, emotional and provocative, PRODIGAL SONS offers a moving, illuminating examination of one family’s struggle to come to terms with its past and present. It’s sure to open both your mind and your heart. www.prodigalsonsfilm.com
-Shaz Bennett, Director of Programming, AFI Film Festival
