Film School (KUCI: Irvine, CA)
Hosts: Nathan Callahan and Mike Kaspar
An interview with KURT KUENNE the director of DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER. 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. 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 foresee. Kuenne is an award-winning filmmaker and composer of both fiction and documentary films.
To Listen to the Interview (MP3)
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