Father Figures April Butler
I was putting out feelers for how other people saw it because i was having a whole range of different confusing thoughts about the whole thing.
Father figures april butler. Father figures is a pov documentary that journeys behind the lens of canadian filmmaker april butler as she examines her own 73 year old father s romantic relationship with a 23 year old woman living in the philippines. Why do father figures. Father figures was not a solo project. The documentary was put together with an editor tanya marinak and gillian hrankowski and i were directing producing and writing.
Gillian hrankowski april butler 2013 canadian filmmaker april butler s father is smitten. But 73 year old heart patient dale is 50 years older than his girlfriend girlie who lives in the philippines. Thrown into turmoil by this situation the filmmaker who is twice the age of her potential future stepmother follows the happy couple. 2013 father figures documentary hide show producer 2 credits 2014 gaining altitude.
This is what happened to me and my father but it was the father figures team are who crafted the documentary. The mosquito reborn documentary executive producer 2013 father figures documentary producer. Follows a canadian filmmaker through asia as she examines her father s relationship with his 23 year old bride to be who lives in the philippines. April butler gillian hrankowski.
When i first heard that my father dale was dating someone 50 years younger i started talking to friends and acquaintances about the situation. April butler by her own admission has daddy issues. Father figures is a pov documentary that journeys behind the lens of canadian filmmaker april butler as she examines her own 73 year old father s romantic relationship with a 23 year old woman living in the philippines. A big one centres on a revelation that inspired her documentary father figures.
Minutes into father figures april butler s camera swoops into a close up of a severed pig s head sitting on a market stall in the philippines it s a silent but visceral expression of the. Dale met girlie on line and 2 months later announced their engagement.