In Review Online: Film About a Father Who
“Film About A Father Who is Lynne Sachs’ latest, and evidently most personal, feat of documentation.” -Nicholas Yap
2021
PRESS
2021
Lynne Sachs Q&A with the Belcourt Theater in Nashville
Lynne Sachs in conversation with the Belcourt Programming Staff: Allison Inman Mae Moreno, Toby Leonard, and Zack Hall on the occasion of “Film About a Father Who”‘s virtual theatre release.
2021
Cleveland Cinematheque hosting Zoom Q&A with director Lynne Sachs – ‘Film About a Father Who’
That’s what veteran filmmaker Lynne Sachs learned with her latest documentary “Film About a Father Who,” which tells the story of her pioneering Utah businessman father, Ira.
2021
Spectrum Culture Reviews “Film About a Father Who”
“Legacy is at the forefront of study for Sachs, whose career has spanned the last three-and-a-half decades.” – Joel Copling
2021
DocNYC: Monday Memos features MoMI Retro and “Film About a Father Who” Release
Lynne Sachs programming noted in DocNYC’s weekly newsletter.
2021
The Film Stage Recommends “Film About a Father Who”
“With thirty-five years of footage shot across varied formats and devices to cull through and piece together, the result becomes less about providing a clear picture of who this man is and more about understanding the cost of his actions.”
2021
LA Times: Film About a Father Who’ untangles director’s family tree
“Sachs achieves a poetic resignation about unknowability inside families, and the hidden roots never explained from looking at a family tree.”
2021
QNS: Astoria’s Museum of Moving Image presents retrospective of NYC filmmaker’s 30-year career
“This film is about a father who… is a different man for everyone who knows him…” – Sachs
2021
Docs in Orbit: Lynne Sachs Retrospective at the Museum of Moving Image
Docs In Orbit revisits their conversation with Lynne Sachs on the occasion of her upcoming retrospective curated by Edo Choi at the Museum of Moving Image in New York.
2021
What (not) to Doc – In Virtual Release: FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO
“…, the portrait that Lynne Sachs pieces together grows increasingly intriguing, not just of her father, but of his generation, and, really, of the broader idea of family.”
