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North By Current Discussion Guide The Film: Participants and Key Issues
The Film: Participants and Key Issues
PARTICIPANTS:
- Angelo Madsen Minax, filmmaker and his family of origin
- Pam and Fred, mother and father of Angelo and Jesse
- Jesse, sister of Angelo, mother of Kalla, Levi, Joey, and Benny
- David, Jesse’s husband, father of Levi, Joey, and Benny
- Levi and Joey, children of Jesse and David
- Voice of an unnamed child
KEY ISSUES:
- North by Current offers insight on a variety of themes individuals and families experience over the course of a lifetime. It will be particularly of interest to people who want to explore:
- Grief
- Coping
- Death of a child
- Motherhood
- Addiction
- Mental health
- The perspective of children
- Memory
- Adult sibling relationships
- Intimate partner violence
- Rural North America
- Class
- Whiteness
- Injustice in carceral systems
- Gender
- Gender roles and gendered expectations
- Patriarchy
- Religion
- Mormonism
- Transgender identities
- Storytelling
- Family archives
- Art making
- Transformation
- Subjectivity and perspective
- Home
- Being and becoming
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