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Production notes: the family film
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Published:July 2016
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Since the 1970s the family film has become an important genre challenge for filmmakers. The problem is how to make them transcend home movies. How to make your films ascend and fly, so that they speak not merely to your immediate family and circle but have the ability to touch on the universal and eternal. In short, you are faced with a hell of a challenge.
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When you start your film, the odds are you don’t know where you are going. You’ve decided to talk to members of your family about the past, about roots, about a few family secrets. You are intrigued by the problems your grandfather faced on coming to the USA. You wonder whether the family was happier before Joe died in Iraq. You are curious about the branch of the family no one ever mentions. So intrigued, but without much direction, you plunge in without much direction.
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