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UNCLE HOWARD

By Aaron BROOKNER

Biography - Completed 2015

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2016

U.S. Documentaries

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Biography, Second film, LGBT
- Countries
- USA, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Aaron BROOKNER
- Writer(s)
- Aaron BROOKNER
- Cast
- Madonna CICCONE, Jim JARMUSCH, William BURROUGHS, Brad GOOCH, Howard BROOKNER
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-7582-0000-0-0000-0000-3
- Producer(s)
- Paula VACCARO (Pinball London), Jim JARMUSCH (Exo Skeleton)
- Synopsis
- When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two feature documentaries and was in post-production on his narrative debut, Bloodhounds of Broadway. Twenty-five years later, his nephew, Aaron, sets out on a quest to find the lost negative of Burroughs: The Movie, his uncle's critically-acclaimed portrait of legendary author William S. Burroughs. When Aaron uncovers Howard's extensive archive in Burroughs’ bunker, it not only revives the film for a new generation, but also opens a vibrant window on New York City’s creative culture from the 1970s and ‘80s, and inspires a wide-ranging exploration of his beloved uncle's legacy.