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"Finding Tatanka is a fascinating window into the life of a movement activist...[it] allows students of today to understand the activism of the 60s in a different way, not romanticized, not demonized, but involving gifts and costs that would only be truly understood in retrospect.”
– Rob Rosenthal, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University
"A deeply personal family tale, Finding Tatanka illustrates the struggle of the 60s generation to keep their beliefs alive, and to search for meaning and spiritual fulfillment beyond revolutionary ideals. The film keenly captures themes both intimate and universal."
– Indiewire
"A compelling study of a fascinating figure. Bricca's film is simultaneously an intellectual and emotional investigation of a unique American family."
– Michael Gottwald, Producer of Beasts of the Southern Wild
– Rob Rosenthal, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University
"A deeply personal family tale, Finding Tatanka illustrates the struggle of the 60s generation to keep their beliefs alive, and to search for meaning and spiritual fulfillment beyond revolutionary ideals. The film keenly captures themes both intimate and universal."
– Indiewire
"A compelling study of a fascinating figure. Bricca's film is simultaneously an intellectual and emotional investigation of a unique American family."
– Michael Gottwald, Producer of Beasts of the Southern Wild
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Director: Jacob Bricca
Runtime: 83 minutes Rating: NR Language: English DVDCat#: PRDVD3016 Public Performance Rights Licensing: Starting at $199.00 Organizations & Institutions please contact info@passionriver.com for a quote GENRES: Documentary, Psychology, Sociology
SYNOPSIS: Kit Bricca was a leader of the Bay Area protest movements of the 1960s and 70s with a fierce passion for social justice, but found the transition from activist to breadwinner a challenging one. In this moving, psychologically complex documentary, filmmaker Jacob Bricca follows the extraordinary journey of his father Kit, a man whose uncompromising idealism changed the world but tore his family apart. Kit organizes with Joan Baez and Cesar Chavez in the sixties, helps start Amnesty International USA in the seventies, then transforms himself into a high flying commodities broker in the eighties and a shamanic healer named Tatanka in the nineties. As the financial crisis of 2008 hits and Kit's finances fall into disarray, Jacob begins his search for answers by following his father on a series of quixotic adventures. Both epic and intimate, Tatanka features never before seen footage from a lost era and tells a sweeping story about the fate of American idealism, the cost of dreams, and the meaning of family. |
