US PREMIERE

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WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

2011

UNFIT: Ward vs. Ward

Sunday

May 13, 2012

@

4:30 pm

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

With in person.
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Director
Edwin Scharlau, Katie Carmichael & Penny Edmiston
Year
2011
Run Time
75
min
Country
USA
Language
English
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
Thoughtful documentary exploring the shocking court decision to grant custody to a child’s father, a convicted murderer, rather than her lesbian mother.
This film is presented in English with English subtitles.
Who is more fit to raise a child: a convicted killer or a lesbian? In 1995 a judge in Pensacola, Florida declared the father, a convicted killer, was more fit; even though he did not know what grade his daughter was in nor what school she attended. This is the story of that case and its aftermath.
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