AMM, KK, and I went to see our first Sundance film tonight. It is called Family Portrait in Black and White and is in the World Documentary competition. There are four categories of competing films at the festival; US Dramatic and Documentary and World Dramatic and Documentary. There are other films that show or premier at the Sundance Film Festival (hoping to get picked up by a larger film company), but they cannot win any of the awards or money.
Anyways, Family Portrait was a excellent film. One of the best I've seen at Sundance. It follows a Ukranian single woman who is foster parent to 27 bi-racial (half Ukraine, half African) children. The director did such an incredible job showing these AMAZING kids and their struggles with racism in the Ukraine even though they identify themselves as Ukranian. The film also showed Olga, the foster mother's, amazing capacity to love these kids, but her flaws too. You could definitely see her way of thinking was shaped by her life in Soviet Russia (keep your head down, and work, work, work).
This film was so emotional for me. My heart breaks just thinking of young Andrey who was sent to a boarding school for special needs children, when he has no real learning disabilities except maybe dyslexia.
Wow, this is why I keep going to Sundance even though it's such a headache trying to get tickets, find parking, wait in lines, etc.
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