Documentary winner of the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Rocky Braat, a young man from a fractured family and a troubled past, went traveling through India without a plan. Then he met a group of HIV positive children living in an orphanage -- a meeting that changed everything for him. Rocky left his life, friends, and career in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to live with the kids. Steve Hoover, his best friend and filmmaker, was unsettled and intrigued by this drastic action. In an effort to find out what compelled Rocky to give up every source of stability in his life, Hoover decided to trace Rocky's story, following him to India. He witnessed Rocky and the kids endure disease, abject poverty, and death. But, strangest of all, in the midst of these troubles, he also saw their deep joy. And he came to understand why Rocky had given up everything he had to experience it. 'Blood Brother' is a story of friendship. It's a story of a life, stripped down to its essence. Most of all, it is a story about love, enduring in the face of death. Facebook: facebook.com/bloodbrotherfilm Twitter: twitter.com/bloodbrotherdoc Contact: info@bloodbrotherfilm.com

Blood Brother

 

  • Blood Brother is an intimate portrait of Rocky Braat, a young man who longed to find a family. He didn't know it, but this desire would lead him to an AIDS hostel in India, a place of unspeakable hardship, where he would find almost more love and need than he could bear.

  • Director
    Steve Hoover

    Producer
    Danny Yourd

    Cinematographer
    John Pope

    Executive Producer
    Michael Killen
    Kathy Dziubek
    Jim Kreitzburg

    Sound Design/Mix
    Defacto Sound

    Music
    Keith Kenniff
    Danny Bracken
    A.J. Hochhalter
    Joseph Minadeo
    Wytold

    Production Company
    Animal

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  • -Sundance Grand Jury Award
    -Sundance Audience Award
    -New York Times Critics' Pick
    -International Documentary Association, Humanities Award
    -Broadcast Premiere, ITVS Independent Lens
    -Big Sky Documentary Festival, Best Feature Documentary
    -Camerimage, Nominated Golden Frog
    -Cinema for Peace Awards, Nominated Most Valuable Documentary
    -Heartland Film Festival, Audience Award
    -Hot Docs Film Festival, Audience Award
    -Milano International Film Festival Awards, Best Documentary
    -St. Louis Film Festival, Film Critics’ Joe Pollack Award
    -Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Audience Award