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Dear Zachary

  • Maylses Documentary Center 343 Lenox Ave New York (map)
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Kurt Kuenne, 2008, 94min

DEAR ZACHARY is newly remastered and available for the first time in High Definition for its 10th Anniversary. This new presentation includes an all new epilogue with updates to the story from the past decade. 

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 U.S., 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…

Skype Q&A with director Kurt Kuenne to follow screening


Earlier Event: December 9
Sayers and Doers
Later Event: January 17
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project