BIG MOUTH PRODUCTIONS Premieres Documentary BROTHER BORN AGAIN at SXSW Film Festival; Noted Producer Julia Pimsleur Makes Directorial Debut.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 5, 2001 BIG MOUTH PRODUCTIONS announces the premiere of BROTHER BORN AGAIN at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas on March 10th, 2001. Julia Pimsleur, known primarily for her work as a producer with her partner Katy Chevigny of Big Mouth Productions (NUYORICAN DREAM, INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY), makes her directorial debut with this intimate personal documentary about re-connecting with her estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. sibling. The story was featured on the "This American Life This American Life (TAL) is a weekly hour-long radio program produced by Chicago Public Radio. It is distributed by Public Radio International and is also available as a free weekly podcast. " Public Radio show on August 11, 2000 and is archived at www.thislife.org. Julia and Marc Pimsleur were raised in Manhattan by intellectual, secular Jews. Julia later graduated from college, moved to Paris and earned a masters degree. Marc went to college on the west coast, dropped out, and joined "the Farm," a born again Christian community on a remote island in Alaska. The Pimsleur family feared Marc had joined a cult, and a deep rift formed between Julia, her mother and her brother. Ten years later, Marc is still on the Farm and Julia has come out as bisexual, further distancing her from her fundamentalist fundamentalist An investor who selects securities to buy and sell on the basis of fundamental analysis. Compare technician. brother. The film explores family dynamics, as well as the definition of family itself, as Julia tries to find out what led her brother to his radical conversion. "For many years, I didn't tell anybody that my Jewish brother had gone off and become a Christian," says Pimsleur. "I would say he was a scientist or a researcher, or he was in Alaska looking at fish farming Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture. It involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food. . I made up a variety of lies to avoid complicated questions. I couldn't understand it myself, so how could I explain it to other people?" BROTHER BORN AGAIN will be screened three times at the SXSW SXSW South By Southwest, Inc. (Texas music festival) Festival (RT: 76:00). Please note dates are subject to change. Check the site at www.films.sxsw.com. Saturday, March 10 - World Premiere Noun 1. world premiere - (music) the first public performance (as of a dramatic or musical work) anywhere in the world performance, public presentation - a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 7:30 PM - Bad Dog Comedy Theater Tuesday, March 13 10:00 PM - Dobie 2 Thursday, March 15 2:15 PM - Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. |
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