Siblings
Audrey Gordon
Documentary | France | 2019 | 1h
Liberty, 11 years old, lives alone in a foster family like her thirteen brothers and sisters, all allocated in families from different regions of the United States. For the first time, she has the opportunity to spend a week with five of her siblings in a Summer Camp, leading her to many other summer reunions to come.
The documentary immerses the audience in the heart of a unique and profound experience, full of tenderness, affection, and sadness between brothers and sisters.
Audrey Gordon is a 31 years old french documentary filmmaker.
Historian and journalist by training, she began her career as a reporter for daily newspaper LIBERATION, where she covered the 2008 American presidential elections.
Her documentaries for television are centered on history and the transmission of memory. Her first film Kinderlekh (2013) was broadcasted on France 3 and screened at the European Parliament.
In 2016, she initiated her first feature-length documentary, Siblings, produced by Charles Gillibert (CG Cinéma, France) and Théo Vieljeux (MyMoon Films, États-Unis). In 2018, the film was selected at Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto.
In 2017, she directed the feature-length documentary, Première Campagne (Les Ecuries production & Kuiv) about a young journalist from France 2, covering her first presidential elections and following candidate Macron. The film received the Grand Prize at the International Political Film Festival - Politikos in 2018 and was released in France by Jour2fête on April 2019.
