Prodigal Sons finds home at First Run Features
18 December, 2009 | By Jeremy Kay
http://www.screendaily.com/news/distribution/prodigal-sons-finds-home-at-first-run-features/5009214.articleFirst Run Features has acquired US rights to Kimberly Reed's festival favourite documentary Prodigal Sons and plans a late February 2010 in New York followed by a nationwide rollout through March.
Reed, a transgender woman, trains the camera on herself as she attends her high school reunion in Montana where she hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother.
"After seeing Prodigal Sons connect with audiences so powerfully on the festival circuit, we became interested in helping Kim get her incredible story out to the masses," First Run vice-president Marc Mauceri said.
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"Prodigal Sons" Comes Home to First Run
by Andy Lauer (Updated 17 hours, 53 minutes ago)
http://www.indiewire.com/article/2009/12/18/prodigal_sons_comes_home_to_first_run/First Run Features will release the documentary "Prodigal Sons" in late February 2010 in New York followed by a nationwide rollout through March, the company unveiled. Directed and produced by Kimberly Reed, "Prodigal Sons" follows Kimberly, a transgender woman, as she travels to her high school reunion in Montana where she hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother and uncovers stunning revelations, including his blood relationship with Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, and intense sibling rivalries.
The film previously received the FIPRESCI prize at the the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Special Jury Prizes for Fearless Filmmaking (at the Florida Film Festival) and Bravery in Storytelling (at the Nashville Film Festival), and Best Documentary Jury Prizes at NewFest, New York's Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and Copenhagen's LGBT Film Festival.
