A Kind of Family (1992)
- Directed by
- Andrew Koster
- Genre
- documentary film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 53 min
- Rating
- 4.0 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A documentary about a Canadian politician and an HIV-positive teenager. The politician takes the teenager in as a foster parent and later adopts him.
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What happens
A Kind of Family is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Andrew Koster and released in 1992. The film centres on Glen Murray, at the time a Winnipeg City Councillor and one of Canada's first openly gay politicians, and Mike, a gay, HIV-positive street kid whom Murray took in as a foster parent and then adopted him. The film received limited theatrical distribution before being broadcast by CBC Television as an episode of the Witness documentary series. It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Short Documentary at the 13th Genie Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Thinking Positive (1993)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.