A single shot was all it took to alter the course of one family mired in a quicksand of abuse and psychological manipulation. “Family Affair” begins with this one shot, an explosion of energy, an unconscious cry for help, the catalyst for upheaval. The film, directed by Chico David Colvard, is an exploration, an interrogation into the abuse, violence, dissolution of his family, and the forces that bind them and bring them back together. The opening sequence combines the recorded memories of Colvard and his sisters over images of the classic TV show "The Rifleman," describing the incident where Colvard, at age 10, trying to emulate his TV hero, picked up one of the loaded rifles his father had throughout the house and accidentally shot his sister Paula in the thigh. Her leg (eventually) healed. The secrets that came out as a result of this accident have been haunting the family ever since.
- 2/29/2012
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
In Chico Colvard's intensely personal documentary, Family Affair, he tells the decades-long story of his own family's struggle with incest, abuse, and communication. After abusing Colvard's sisters repeatedly throughout their childhood, their father went to jail for a brief period of time, and then resumed his life; amazingly, the sisters found a way to maintain their relationship with him, something Colvard himself was not able to do for many years. During the course of the film, shot over many years, Colvard finds a way confront and engage with his father, while also exploring the multi-faceted relationships that exist within a family. Family Affair premiered in documentary competition at Sundance this past winter, where it caused a quiet stir; Oprah Winfrey's Own network picked up the doc for its inaugural Documentary Film Club. It is a moving film that explores notions of family, survival, forgiveness, resilience, and understanding. As...
- 8/10/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
We're calling it a day in Sundance, but keep looking at our Sundance home page and Cheat Sheet for continuing coverage from this year's fest. Since returning from Park City, we've already posted new photo galleries from the "Get Low" and "Winter's Bone" premieres, and more is on the way. In the meantime, check out Matt Singer's review of "Sympathy for Delicious" and our roundup of Sundance and Slamdance award winners, news of who will be distributing the Ryan Gosling-Michelle Williams romantic drama "Blue Valentine" and other Sundance flicks, and where you can see some clips of those films right now.
Matt Singer wasn't very sympathetic to Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut, "Sympathy for Delicious." Here's an excerpt from his review, which can be found in full here:
The Lord may work in mysterious ways; "Sympathy For Delicious" does not. The only thing that's mysterious about this unsubtle...
Matt Singer wasn't very sympathetic to Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut, "Sympathy for Delicious." Here's an excerpt from his review, which can be found in full here:
The Lord may work in mysterious ways; "Sympathy For Delicious" does not. The only thing that's mysterious about this unsubtle...
- 1/29/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
By Brent Lang
[Update: 01/29/10, 2:00 p.m.]
Oprah Winfrey's Own has acquired the rights to Chico David Colvard's documentary "Family Affair," the network announced on Friday. The deal was brokered by the film's producer Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan of Impact Partners. The network would not disclose how much it spent to acquire the film.
"Family Affair" tells Colvard's family history, using as a jumping off point, the story of how the director at 10 years ol...
[Update: 01/29/10, 2:00 p.m.]
Oprah Winfrey's Own has acquired the rights to Chico David Colvard's documentary "Family Affair," the network announced on Friday. The deal was brokered by the film's producer Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan of Impact Partners. The network would not disclose how much it spent to acquire the film.
"Family Affair" tells Colvard's family history, using as a jumping off point, the story of how the director at 10 years ol...
- 1/29/2010
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Chico Colvard’s Sundance Documentary Competition feature, “Family Affair” has been acquired by Own, the recently announced Oprah Winfrey Network. The film is the first to join the network’s recently announced Documentary Film Club, which was created to “spotlight cinematic documentaries that can inspire and entertain, and encourage emerging creative voices to bring their stories to a mainstream television audience on Own.” When the director was ten years old, he shot his …...
- 1/29/2010
- Indiewire
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network has acquired the Sundance documentary "Family Affair."
The feature-length doc written and produced by Chico David Colvard, which examines his family history, will be part of Own's recently announced documentary film club showcasing films that "can inspire and entertain."
"Own is about real life stories of self-discovery, inspiration and transformation," said CEO Christina Norman. "'Family Affair' is exactly that -- a multilayered, raw and provocative family story."
The documentary, which premiered at Sundance this week, features Colvard and his three sisters revisiting their childhood marked by a tragic incident, in which 10-year-old Colvard shot his older sister, and by severe childhood abuse that his sisters suffered at the hand of their father.
Own's documentary film club is being done in partnership with doc film distributor Ro*co Films International.
Own, a co-venture between Winfrey's Harpo Prods. and Discovery Communications slated for a January 2011 launch,...
The feature-length doc written and produced by Chico David Colvard, which examines his family history, will be part of Own's recently announced documentary film club showcasing films that "can inspire and entertain."
"Own is about real life stories of self-discovery, inspiration and transformation," said CEO Christina Norman. "'Family Affair' is exactly that -- a multilayered, raw and provocative family story."
The documentary, which premiered at Sundance this week, features Colvard and his three sisters revisiting their childhood marked by a tragic incident, in which 10-year-old Colvard shot his older sister, and by severe childhood abuse that his sisters suffered at the hand of their father.
Own's documentary film club is being done in partnership with doc film distributor Ro*co Films International.
Own, a co-venture between Winfrey's Harpo Prods. and Discovery Communications slated for a January 2011 launch,...
- 1/29/2010
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
While our Sundance home page is the place for all our coverage from Park City, here is a brief rundown of what's been going on during the last 24 hours, including an interview with "Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil" star Alan Tudyk, new photo galleries for "Hesher" and "Howl," and reviews of "The Company Men," "Hesher," "Winter's Bone," and "Four Lions."
Said to be close to a sale, Bilge Ebiri expects "The Company Men" to be coming to a theater near you after Sundance. Here's an excerpt from his review, which can be found in full here:
While a variety of films from "Up in the Air" to "The International" have found an icy beauty in the clean lines and empty spaces of modern corporate life, there's a strange, quiet pall cast over the blank offices and boardrooms that make up the landscape of "The Company Men." That antiseptic aesthetic reaches into...
Said to be close to a sale, Bilge Ebiri expects "The Company Men" to be coming to a theater near you after Sundance. Here's an excerpt from his review, which can be found in full here:
While a variety of films from "Up in the Air" to "The International" have found an icy beauty in the clean lines and empty spaces of modern corporate life, there's a strange, quiet pall cast over the blank offices and boardrooms that make up the landscape of "The Company Men." That antiseptic aesthetic reaches into...
- 1/25/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Chico Colvard makes his directorial debut with “Family Affair,” an intensely personal documentary in which he examines his own troubled family history. “At 10 years old, Chico Colvard shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family. Thirty years later, Colvard ruptures veils of secrecy and silence again. As he bravely visits his relatives, what unfolds is …...
- 1/11/2010
- indieWIRE - People
Chico Colvard makes his directorial debut with “Family Affair,” an intensely personal documentary in which he examines his own troubled family history. “At 10 years old, Chico Colvard shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family. Thirty years later, Colvard ruptures veils of secrecy and silence again. As he bravely visits his relatives, what unfolds is …...
- 1/11/2010
- Indiewire
Chico Colvard’s makes his directorial debut with “Family Affair,” an intensely personal documentary in which he examines his own troubled family history. “At 10 years old, Chico Colvard shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family. Thirty years later, Colvard ruptures veils of secrecy and silence again. As he bravely visits his relatives, what unfolds is …...
- 1/11/2010
- indieWIRE - People
Chico Colvard makes his directorial debut with “Family Affair,” an intensely personal documentary in which he examines his own troubled family history. “At 10 years old, Chico Colvard shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family. Thirty years later, Colvard ruptures veils of secrecy and silence again. As he bravely visits his relatives, what unfolds is …...
- 1/11/2010
- indieWIRE - People
Judging by names like Gibney, Blitz, Poitras, Guggenheim, Stern/Sundberg and Grady/Ewing, 2010's Sundance Documentary Competition will be stellar edition with so many return Sundance filmmakers clogging up the section. - Judging by names like Gibney, Blitz, Poitras, Guggenheim, Stern/Sundberg and Grady/Ewing, 2010's Sundance Documentary Competition will be stellar edition with so many return Sundance filmmakers clogging up the section. I'll do more groundwork but off the bat, I'm automatically interested in Gibney's exploration of Jack Abramoff and crew (the official title for the doc is Casino Jack and the United States of Money), Amir Bar-Lev moves from Kids who paint pictures to adults creating their own pictures as was the bad judgment calls from some high ranking folk in the U.S. government (I'm Pat ------- Tillman) and Jeffrey Blitz's long awaited doc on lottery winners (Lucky). Dammit. I pretty much want to see the entire section.
- 12/13/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
I feel a special bond with the Sundance Film Festival. Not because I’ve been there, but because the guy in charge of it this year, John Cooper, shares my name. Because we share this bond, I feel that I’m able to take license in referring to the man as Coop for the rest of this article.
For the annual event held in Park City, Utah from January 21-31, thousands of films are submitted and screened — this year, 3,724 films were viewed by the festival’s ten programmers. I wonder when they slept.
Coop has high hopes for the festival as a whole:
“We may even be going into a golden age for independent films, in that the technology will make it possible for the films to be made and for audiences to see them. The industry is going through a major evolutionary stage right now, there’s no doubt about that,...
For the annual event held in Park City, Utah from January 21-31, thousands of films are submitted and screened — this year, 3,724 films were viewed by the festival’s ten programmers. I wonder when they slept.
Coop has high hopes for the festival as a whole:
“We may even be going into a golden age for independent films, in that the technology will make it possible for the films to be made and for audiences to see them. The industry is going through a major evolutionary stage right now, there’s no doubt about that,...
- 12/3/2009
- by John Cooper
- ReelLoop.com
Sundance Film Festival 2010 is a little over a month away and that means we can now bring you a list of the competition films that will be playing. Here you go boys and girls… enjoy!
Documentary Competition
“Blue Valentine” – Directed by Derek Cianfrance, written by Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis, a portrait of an American marriage that charts the evolution of a relationship over time. With Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman. “Douchebag” – Directed by Drake Doremus, written by Lindsay Stidham, Doremus, Jonathan Schwartz and Andrew Dickler, in which a man about to be married takes his younger brother on a wild goose chase to find the latter’s fifth-grade girlfriend. Features Dickler, Ben York Jones, Marguerite Moreau, Nicole Vicius, Amy Ferguson, Wendi McClendon-Covey. “The Dry Land” – Directed and written by Ryan Piers Williams, in which a returning U.S. soldier tries to reconcile his experiences overseas with his life in Texas.
Documentary Competition
“Blue Valentine” – Directed by Derek Cianfrance, written by Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis, a portrait of an American marriage that charts the evolution of a relationship over time. With Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman. “Douchebag” – Directed by Drake Doremus, written by Lindsay Stidham, Doremus, Jonathan Schwartz and Andrew Dickler, in which a man about to be married takes his younger brother on a wild goose chase to find the latter’s fifth-grade girlfriend. Features Dickler, Ben York Jones, Marguerite Moreau, Nicole Vicius, Amy Ferguson, Wendi McClendon-Covey. “The Dry Land” – Directed and written by Ryan Piers Williams, in which a returning U.S. soldier tries to reconcile his experiences overseas with his life in Texas.
- 12/3/2009
- by Scott
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Photo: Sundance Today the Sundance Institute announced the films that will be in competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in both the U.S. and International dramatic and documentary categories. The festival will run from January 21-31 in Park City, Utah. There are a few changes this year as there will be no opening-night picture and the festival will take select festival films to eight cities during as the fest plays out.
Last year notable films such as this year's major Oscar contenders Precious and An Education debuted at Sundance 2009 as did audience and critical favorite (500) Days of Summer.
As for this year's crop I have highlighted a few titles among the list below in red, but I have primarily done so considering the names attached to the pictures not necessarily based on any advanced buzz I've heard around any of the films. Names to look out for include Ryan Gosling,...
Last year notable films such as this year's major Oscar contenders Precious and An Education debuted at Sundance 2009 as did audience and critical favorite (500) Days of Summer.
As for this year's crop I have highlighted a few titles among the list below in red, but I have primarily done so considering the names attached to the pictures not necessarily based on any advanced buzz I've heard around any of the films. Names to look out for include Ryan Gosling,...
- 12/2/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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