Dear Zachary,
A story about a man killed, the woman who killed him, their love child caught in the middle, the grandparents seeking custody and the system failing to deliver. Sounds almost like tv movie of the week starring the forgotten celebrities from early nineties sitcoms. But it is so much more than that.
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is a documentary about Andrew Bagby, a young and beloved man killed by his ex-girlfriend shortly after he got her pregnant; a true life account delving into this death and its aftermath, as told by his best friend and amateur filmmaker Kurt Kuenne. Kuenne travels the country far and wide, interviewing friends, family and loved ones in his quest to create a document that will be able to explain to the titular Zachary, Andrew's son, about his remarkable father and the circumstances that ended his life. But this is so much more than that.
It is a story about David and Kathleen Bagby, Andrew's parents and Zachary grandparents, who are the kind of people you wish were in your life. A couple so determined to save Zachary from his mother, the woman who killed her father, that they are willing to devote their lives entirely to fighting the sluggish judicial system that allows a suspected killer to walk free and raise a baby. A couple still standing in the face, not of adversity, but, as Kathleen herself puts it, in the face of the devil. But this is so much more than even that.
This is a story that leaves a mark on you. This is a story that will suckerpunch you in the gut when you least expect it. This is a story that is ruthlessly gut wrenching in its honesty and its depiction of reality, which, as it turns out, is nothing at all like the tv movie of the week.
This is unmissable.
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is a documentary about Andrew Bagby, a young and beloved man killed by his ex-girlfriend shortly after he got her pregnant; a true life account delving into this death and its aftermath, as told by his best friend and amateur filmmaker Kurt Kuenne. Kuenne travels the country far and wide, interviewing friends, family and loved ones in his quest to create a document that will be able to explain to the titular Zachary, Andrew's son, about his remarkable father and the circumstances that ended his life. But this is so much more than that.
It is a story about David and Kathleen Bagby, Andrew's parents and Zachary grandparents, who are the kind of people you wish were in your life. A couple so determined to save Zachary from his mother, the woman who killed her father, that they are willing to devote their lives entirely to fighting the sluggish judicial system that allows a suspected killer to walk free and raise a baby. A couple still standing in the face, not of adversity, but, as Kathleen herself puts it, in the face of the devil. But this is so much more than even that.
This is a story that leaves a mark on you. This is a story that will suckerpunch you in the gut when you least expect it. This is a story that is ruthlessly gut wrenching in its honesty and its depiction of reality, which, as it turns out, is nothing at all like the tv movie of the week.
This is unmissable.
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