Getting Lear: How To Show And Not Tell

"All documentaries must invoke, as best they can, the spirit rather than the letter of the truth - and they are exciting because of this. A documentary's authenticity ultimately lies in its organizing vision rather than any mechanical fidelity to life." - Michael Rabiger



Friday, April 16, 2010

FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL: 2010

Lost Sparrow

DIRECTED BY CHRIS BILLING
USA, 2009
78 MIN
EAST COAST PREMIERE

LOST SPARROW grabs you immediately with its opening shot of two small coffins being removed from an upstate New York cemetery and loaded onto an awaiting U-Haul truck. And so begins the journey of Chris Billing to return the remains of his two adopted Crow Indian brothers to their Montana reservation birthplace. The two Crow brothers, Bobby and Tyler, were adopted along with their two sisters by the wealthy and seemingly perfect Billing family in the early ‘70s. On June 26th, 1978, Bobby and Tyler ran away. The next morning they were killed by a freight train. Why did the boys run away? And why were they on the railroad tracks? Billing masterfully mixes his own memories of his childhood with interviews with his parents and siblings. And by asking tough questions, he uncovers dark secrets that lead him to why his adoptive brothers perished on the train tracks.

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