Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

First Showing are praising this documentary and it does sound rather interesting. Plus the poster for it is cool. FS says ,Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is easily one of the most profound and amazing documentaries I've watched in my entire life. Beyond featuring some great filmmaking from Kurt Kuenne, it has a truly powerful message that every last person on this planet needs to see for themselves. I was happy to hear that Oscilloscope Pictures picked up the distribution rights and is putting this in theaters in New York and Los Angeles at the end of this month.

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. John's, Canada, where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the little boy Zachary.

Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's oldest friend, began making a film for little Zachary as a way for him to get to know the father he'd never meet. But when Shirley Turner was released on bail in Canada and was given custody of Zachary while awaiting extradition to the US, the film's focus shifted to Zachary's 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.

Anyone seen it? What's it like?

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