Cookies are yum so we use them to make your HeadStuff experience more yummy. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is a 2008 American documentary film written, produced, edited and directed by Kurt Kuenne. Among those who named it one of the best films of 2008 were Time Out Chicago, The Oregonian, the Times Herald-Record, Slant Magazine, and WGN Radio Chicago. “Dear Zachary” is, above all, a virtuoso feat in editing, and Kuenne uses the material at his disposal to devastating effect. It was broadcast by MSNBC on December 7, 2008, and has been repeated several times since. [17][18][19], Kuenne sent each member of Canada's 400-strong Parliament a copy of Dear Zachary as part of a campaign to change federal bail laws. On August 18, 2003 Shirley Jane Turner took the 13 month old Zachary and jumped into the Atlantic Ocean, killing them both. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. By crosscutting between court papers and pathological phone messages to Andrew’s parents, Kuenne captures a sense of this deeply disturbed woman. According to CBC News: "The social services system in Newfoundland and Labrador failed [Zachary].". Kuenne has stated that Dear Zachary began as a project only to be shown to friends and family of Andrew Bagby. I haven't cried (okay on the inside I definitely cried a lot) because I knew what happened at the end but I was just utterly shocked and shook my head the whole time in disbelief. Kuenne would probably be the first to admit he’s crafted a shamelessly manipulative version of events, one that works best for audiences who know nothing about the case (which was widely publicized in “Dance With the Devil,” a bestseller written by Andrew’s father, David Bagby). There's no shortage of harrowing documentaries, but Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is one of the most intense. [2], Dear Zachary premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2008, and received a limited theatrical release before being acquired for distribution by MSNBC. On November 4, 2006, Dr. Andrew Bagby broke up with his girlfriend, Dr. Shirley Turner. Dear Zachary wrenches the tears from you, beating you about the head and body with the sum total of human misery. To their horror, she was freed on bail pending extradition, on the ground that she posed no danger to society because she had killed the one person she wanted dead. It’s a masterclass in how editing can get so much information across in such a small amount of time. In jail, Turner wrote to a judge and, contrary to normal legal procedure, received advice on how to appeal her arrest and imprisonment. [8] David Bagby wrote a best-selling book about his family's ordeal during the saga. “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father”. Kuenne is donating all profits from the film to a scholarship established in the names of Andrew and Zachary Bagby.[3]. Turner took advantage of the kindness of a judge and psychiatrist to aid in her bail process and in the visitation rights she was granted with Zachary’s grandparents. When a provincial court ruled that enough evidence pointed to Turner as Bagby's killer, she was put in jail and Bagby's parents, David and Kathleen, were awarded custody of Zachary. The Society of Professional Journalists presented it with its Sigma Delta Chi Award for Best Television Documentary (Network), it received the Special Jury and Audience Awards at the Cinequest Film Festival, it was named an Audience Favorite at Hot Docs, it received the Audience Awards at the St. Louis International Film Festival and the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, it was named Best Documentary at the Orlando Film Festival and was awarded with the jury award for best international documentary at Docville (Belgium). With that said Dear Zachary is worth watching. I’m not even sure if I could. A judge released her using the logic that "[h]er crime, while violent, was specific in nature," implying that she was not likely to harm anyone else. (If you really can’t stand not to know ahead of time, you can read the Wikipedia page of the film.) This decision was made with the public knowledge that Turner had attempted to take her life on Andrew's front porch, was on suicide watch in jail, and at the time had eight orders of restraint against her. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. He was a well liked man by all accounts and his job as a doctor adds further credence to this flattering portrait. When the child washed ashore, the man who found them wrapped Zachary in a blanket, forgoing the usual plastic bag, to keep him as far as possible from the unstable, albeit deceased, woman who took his life. The twist of the knife in Dear Zachary is that all of the events that led up to the deaths were preventable. As dozens of oncamera interviews show, those who survived Andrew were angry and hurt by his murder, and the film will leave auds feeling no differently. HeadStuff.org is a collaborative hub for the creative and the curious.
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