Cinematical just debuted the poster Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father, a much buzzed-about documentary that played at Slamdance this year. I haven’t seen the movie, and now this poster is guaranteeing that I really, really want to see it. In my head I know it’s just marketing working really well, but this poster grabs me and makes me really want to see what else this film has up its sleeve.
Here’s the synopsis for Dear Zachary:
On November 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby 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. Johnʼs, Canada, where
she announced that she was pregnant with Andrewʼs child. She named the
little boy Zachary.
Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrewʼs oldest
friend, began making a film for little Zachary as a way for him to get
to know the father heʼd never meet. But when Shirley Turner was
released on bail in Canada and was given custody of Zachary while
awaiting extradition to the U.S., the filmʼs focus shifted to Zacharyʼs
grandparents, David & Kathleen Bagby, and their desperate efforts
to win custody of the boy from the woman they knew had murdered their
son.
What happened next, no one ever could have foreseen coming…
See the entire, gorgeous poster at Cinematical.
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Damn Devin…you are right! Very cool poster and it is a cool way to sell a doc that will probely only play on DVD near most people. Worth the click.
I cannot forsee coming what happens next.
This film played the SILVERDOCS doc festival in DC this year. It is heartbreaking and devastating. Highly recommended.
No, it actually looks like every bland indie rock album cover of the last 5 years.
I'll guess…
The mom is murdered too or the kid dies.
good scoop devin, im a doc hound and i haven't seen this, can't wait. thanks you.
It's nice, but "stunningly excellent" is an "alarmingly enormous" exaggeration.
Ah shiv! you spoiled the ending chesseball!
Spoiler comment (the former #8) deleted. Thanks so much for that one, Matt.
It is tragic indeed what happened to Zachary, you can look it up on Wikipedia. Living in Australia we heard about it too when it went down, it was really sad. As a parent it'll break my heart to see this and I know it'll be worse for people with grandchildren who are in similair situations… bravo to the makers of this film. These are the sort of tales that we need to see, to learn from. Hopefully it'll help some of the bitter people involved in custody cases wake up to themselves and get help.
How is it possible to "spoil" a true story. It isn't like this story wasn't international news. LAME!
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