Blood Brother

2013 Sundance Grand Prize Winner

With Director Steve Hoover

Thoughtful Cinema is a joint endeavor of Biola University’s Cinema and Media Arts Department and the Center for Christian Thought. Thoughtful Cinema will showcase significant films with spiritual content throughout the year, followed by a panel discussion with a variety of responders. Each film will have someone who was directly involved with the film on the panel. Director Steve Hooper will be part of the Blood Brother discussion.

Blood Brother is a buddy film, a hero's journey, a drama, a comedy, and a love story all rolled into one epic documentary that reminds the viewer just how beautiful and valuable even the most tragic of lives can be.

The film tells the story of Rocky Braat who decided to go to India on a journey of self-discovery. In what proved to be a life-transforming encounter, he visited a care center for women and children living with HIV and AIDS. Despite never really liking children, Braat returns home to Pittsburgh announcing he’s moving to India to work at the center.

His best friend and director Steve Hoover is perplexed by his decision and decides to follow Rocky on his journey. The film chronicles that journey back to India, with Hoover discovering a very different story than the one he expected, leaving the lives of the two men and the children changed forever. Director Steve Hoover went to India twice and spent three years making the film, the proceeds of which go to help the children that Rocky cares for in India.

Winner of the 2013 Grand Jury Prize and the 2013 Audience Award for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, Blood Brother is a deeply moving film about how one person with steely determination and limitless love can make a difference in the lives of others.

http://www.bloodbrotherfilm.com/ 
Sundance Film Festival Meet the Artists Series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTefHbJr9Go
Steve Hoover, Director of Blood Brother

Ticket sales at 6:30 p.m. and doors open at 7:00 p.m.

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Co-sponsored by CMA & CCT

Rachel Dee
562-777-4081
rachel.dee@biola.edu