Saving Brinton (2017)

Directed by

Andrew Sherburne, Tommy Haines

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Iowan man named Mike Zahs discovers a huge collection of very old film reels in a farmhouse basement. The documentary follows his efforts to preserve and share this forgotten piece of cinematic history.

informativeaffectionatequietly inspiringnostalgicunderstatedearnestobservationalsteady-paced

What happens

Saving Brinton is a 2017 American documentary film about the efforts of Iowa resident Mike Zahs to preserve a large quantity of reels of film from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that he found in the basement of a farm house. It premiered at AFI Docs on June 17, 2017 and internationally at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post calls it one of 2018's "best movies of the year". It was directed by Tommy Haines and Andrew Sherburne. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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