SAM NOW

SAM NOW

Directed by Reed Harkness | 86 min | USA

What do two film-obsessed brothers do to solve a family mystery? Using every video format imaginable, they make a movie as they travel thousands of miles looking for their missing mom. Stitching together 25 years of home videos and filling the gaps in the archive with play, Sam Now is a mosaic of love, longing, and loss, as well as an attempt to overcome intergenerational trauma.

FESTIVALS: Hot Docs, DOC NYC, Big Sky International Documentary Festival

Preceded by the short film: GROWING UP BEHIND BARBED WIRE

Directed by Brendan Bubion | 7 min | USA

Two young Japanese-American girls are uprooted from their home when their family is sent to an incarceration camp during WWII, where their childhood innocence juxtaposes the traumatic injustice surrounding them.