PRODIGAL SONS Documentary Competition

Debut filmmaker Kimberly Reed dives headfirst into on unflinching portrait of her family that is absolutely engrossing and marks her coming-out, in more ways than one. Returning home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, Reed hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother But along the way PRODIGAL SONS uncovers stunning revelations, including a blood relationship with Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, intense sibling rivalries and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender Reed’s rare access delicately reveals not only the family’s most private moments, but also on epic scope as the film travels from Montana to Croatia, from jail cell to football field, from deaths to births. It is on extraordinary personal story with universal appeal. Kim Reed’s compassionate verite style of filmmaking captures the lives of her family in such on organic way that their exceptional and challenging stories puncture the surface of our expectations. Questions of sexual orientation, identity, severe trauma and family love ore effortlessly explored as the subjects freely open up their lives to the camera . Row, emotional and provocative , PRODIGAL SONS offers a moving , illuminating examination of one family’s struggle to come to terms with its post and present. It’s sure to open both your mind and your heart.