Jan 28, 2010 (Calcutta Tube): Off and Running is a 2009 English Documentary movie directed by Nicole Opper that is releasing a limited edition on Jan 29, 2010 in USA. is about a adopted young lady’s search for her origin and family bonds. The film has been featured in Tribeca Film Festival, Silverdocs Film Festival, Outfest Film Festival, San Francisco DocFest in the USA in 2009 and in Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden in 2010. The film is of 76-minute duration.
Sweden – January 2010 (Göteborg International Film Festival)
USA – 29 January 2010 (limited)
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With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers - one mixed-race and one Korean - Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But when her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, she decides to contact her birth mother. This choice propels Avery into her own complicated exploration of race, identity, and family that threatens to distance her from the parents she's always known. Off and Running follows Avery to the brink of adulthood, exploring the strength of family bonds and the lengths people must go through to become themselves.
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Review Date: January 4, 2010
Reviewer: Amos Lassen, Little Rock, Arkansas
"Off and Running"
A Diverse Family
Amos Lassen
Avery is a Brooklyn teenager. She is African-American and the adopted daughter of two white Jewish lesbians. She has two adopted brothers, one is mixed race and the other is Korean. As Avery matures, she wants to know more about her real roots and she decides to contact her birth mother which only leads her into a world of confusion as she begins to explore her identity, he race and her family. It seems as if her life is falling apart but Avery manages to put it back together again and in the process she learns who she is and the results are inspiring.
We have had so many coming-of-age stories that it began to seem that there was nothing new to be seen but Nicole Opper, the director, gives us, this time, a coming of age story that looks at race through the struggle of a very different kind of American family. Avery is a regular, typical Brooklyn teenaged girl who lives in a melting pot which could never be called typical. Her family is loving but she has a great deal of curiosity about her African American roots and when she decides to contact her birth mother, she begins a journey of identity and race. The more she explores, the more she wants answers and the further she becomes estranged from her current family. She eventually drops out of school and leaves home. She feels she is displaced--being a Black student at a Jewish elementary school did not help her discover her self-worth. She has Black friends but it is her journey that consumes her.
A letter she received from her birth mom is what caused Avery to put her plans to go to college on a track scholarship on ice. Her adopted mothers support her desire to learn more about herself but even after a trip to Austin, Texas to her real family's home, she becomes more confused and instead of being comforted, she feels lost especially when all communication from her real family stops. The film shows us just how important it is to know ourselves before we can decide where our lives are headed. He film begins by looking like it is going to be a heartwarming portrait of a non-traditional family but it quickly becomes an illustration of the problems in a family of that kind. We see Avery as an understandable example of adolescent anger and angst and self-pity but she has great confidence even though she is totally vulnerable. In the end she seems to be getting herself together and getting back on track. What an amazing look at non-traditional America and what a girl we have in Avery. Congratulations to director Nicole Opper for this beautiful gift.
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