Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

It would have satisfied even the most voracious history buffs if Rory Kennedy, youngest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, had enlisted her mother’s perspective simply as a fresh angle on the Kennedy years. But ETHEL is so much more. Intimate, humorous conversations and never-before-seen images from the family troves uncover an enthralling story of a vivacious, authentic heroine whose transformation—from rambunctious Republican firecracker to savvy Democratic campaigner to socially conscious single mother of 11—arcs definitively as her husband’s drama unfolds.

The film’s power surfaces as Ethel’s unique value system and the intrinsic connection between the family’s private and public lives come into focus. Tales of the young brood attending Senate hearings, of heartfelt letters RFK wrote as a way of incorporating them into momentous political occasions, and of each child’s assignment to a social-justice mission reveal the respect and love that fueled Ethel’s household—a microcosm for what this country can be. Ethel Kennedy stands alongside her husband as a beacon of integrity and hope. - C.L.

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Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Rory Kennedy has made more than 30 documentaries covering topics ranging from the global AIDS crisis, human rights, and domestic abuse to poverty, drug addiction, and political corruption. Her film, American Hollow, premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and earned Kennedy an AFI Award as well as Primetime Emmy Award and Independent Spirit Award nominations. In 2007 Kennedy produced and directed HBO’s Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding nonfiction special. Along with documentarian Liz Garbus, she is cofounder of Moxie Firecracker Films in New York.