Dear Zachary - Gen Art Cinema Circle presented by Don Julio Video

On Tuesday, October 28th, Gen Art was proud to host an intimate Cinema Circle screening of Kurt Kuenne's deeply personal and heart-wrenching documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father at the Tribeca Grand Screening Room. Gen Art members & industry guests were joined by the film's director, Kurt Kuenne, for a special Q+A moderated by Gen Art's Aaron Levine. The Q+A was followed by an intimate cocktail reception where guests mingled with the filmmaker and sampled the different marks of Don Julio Tequila and enjoyed SoNu water. Additional support for the event was provided by Acura, American Express and Time Out New York. An alumnus of Gen Art's film program, Kurt won the Acura Grand Jury Award for his short film Validation at The Gen Art Chicago Film Festival in 2007, and his short film Slow was a finalist in the Delta Fly-In Movies competition last winter. For more information on the film visit www.dearzachary.com See photos from this event here www.genart.org SYNOPSIS: On November 5th, 2001, 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. Johns, Canada, where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrews child. She named the little boy Zachary. Kurt Kuenne, Andrews oldest friend, began making a film for little Zachary as a way for him to get to know the father hed never meet. But when Shirley Turner was released on bail in Canada and ...