Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

UNFIT: Ward vs. Ward

With in person.

Sun, May 13 @ 4:30 pm

Brattle Theatre

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Director

Edwin Scharlau, Katie Carmichael & Penny Edmiston

Year

2011

Run Time

75

min

Country

USA

Language

English

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

Thoughtful documentary exploring the shocking court decision to grant custody to a child’s father, a convicted murderer, rather than her lesbian mother.

This film is presented in English with English subtitles.

Who is more fit to raise a child: a convicted killer or a lesbian? In 1995 a judge in Pensacola, Florida declared the father, a convicted killer, was more fit; even though he did not know what grade his daughter was in nor what school she attended. This is the story of that case and its aftermath.

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