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Following its Nationwide Cinema Release,
Phil Wall's New Documentary
THE BOOK KEEPERS
Begins Streaming Today
on Apple TV, iTunes & Amazon!
{ Winner! Audience Award & Jury Award }
Austin Film Festival
 
"Engrossing...memorable...profound. Beautifully captures the complex nature of the way we cope with loss."
~ Douglas Laman, The Spool
    
The Book Keepers follows the uplifting journey of a husband who keeps his wife's dream alive by becoming the spokesperson for her book after her death.
   
Carol Wall's debut memoir – about cancer, friendship, and cultivating an open heart – was a breakout success. But joy turned to tragedy when the breast cancer she wrote about returned, and she died months after its publication.
     
Carol’s husband, Dick, determined to help her life-affirming message find its audience, becomes the book’s unlikely spokesperson and embarks on a nationwide book tour. He’s joined by the couple’s filmmaker son, Phil Wall, who captures his dad’s efforts to ensure her dream lives on. The result is an intimate portrait of love and loss – an ode to the healing power of storytelling.
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"I cannot commend too highly this insightful documentary."
- Ed McNulty, Visual Parables
"This is a different kind of portrait of grief than movies usually show us."
- Scott Renshaw, Salt Lake City Weekly
"Compelling, heartbreaking, heartwarming, touching, bittersweet, inspirational."
- Wendy Schadewald, Sun This Week
"A thing of beauty."
- Darrel Manson, ScreenFish
"Wall has beautifully structured this tale for maximum poignance."
- MaryAnn Johanson, FlickFilosopher
"A beautifully intimate portrait of loss and never-ending love."
- Michael Calleri, Niagra Gazette
"It’s important to me that THE BOOK KEEPERS sparks healthy discussion on loss. I don’t have answers, so the film doesn’t offer any—not even how much time has passed. It’s an intimate and honest portrait that I hope can help others heal in the same way people’s stories have helped me."
- Phil Wall, Director
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About the Filmmaker
Phil Wall is an award-winning filmmaker. He wrote, produced, filmed, directed and edited The Book Keepers, which is his third feature documentary. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he works on independent and commercial narrative content. Visit philwall.film for more info.
 
More Upcoming Releases from First Run Features
 
ONLY IN THEATERS
SCRAP
A documentary by Stacey Tenenbaum
78 minutes, color, 2022

Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world’s scrap. SCRAP scratches beneath flaking paint and rusting metal to reveal the beauty and pathos in what we leave behind.

"A beautifully filmed elegy on the metals we discard, and their innate capacity for renewal and transformation.''
-Jennifer Baichwal, Director of Manufactured Landscapes
 
STREAMING & DVD ~ NOVEMBER 1
PAUL TAYLOR: CREATIVE DOMAIN
A documentary by Kate Geis
82 minutes, color, 2015

Among the most acclaimed choreographers in American history, Paul Taylor reinvented the roles of music and movement in dance for nearly 60 years. This rare, in-depth look into his creative process was the last film made with him before his death in 2018.

"CRITIC'S PICK! "Absorbing… approaches the mystical."
-Rachel Saltz, The New York Times
 
STREAMING & DVD ~ NOVEMBER 8
RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE: THE MAKING OF A WESTERN OPERA
A documentary by Kristin Atwell Ford
82 minutes, color, 2020

The documentary follows a classically trained composer as he adapts Zane Gray's dime novel masterpiece into a grand opera – bringing America's cowboy culture and the sprawling beauty of the West into the realm of Puccini and Verdi.

"Riveting. An excellent portrayal of the making of an opera...takes the audience on a fascinating journey behind the scenes of a truly sparkling production. Highly recommended!" -Video Librarian
 
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