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Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father
Event Type:  Premiere
10/31/2008

Dir.: Kurt Kuenne
Oscilloscope Pictures
On Nov. 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was murdered in Pennsylvania; the prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, fled the US for Newfoundland, where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's childhood friend, originally began this film as a way for Zachary to learn about his father. But when Turner was allowed to walk free on bail in Canada and given custody of Zachary while awaiting extradition to the States, the film's focus shifted to Zachary's grandparents, and their desperate efforts to win custody of the boy.