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CIRCUS KID
2016 / 71 mins
DIRECTOR
Lorenzo Pisoni
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Daniel Radcliffe
Everyone's family feels like a circus. Lorenzo Pisoni's actually was. At age 2, he began in the family business by entering his parents' Pickle Family Circus. Circus Kid, centers on the family dynamics that develop when your father's the head clown.
The Pickle Family Circus was founded by a young couple in 1974, paving the way for the New American Circus Movement. Their son Lorenzo became a performer from a young age. Now an actor, he looks for answers to a lifetime of questions as he explores an unconventional relationship with a father who was also his coach, employer and clown-act partner. Circus Kid captures the spirit, lunacy, daring and dynamics of growing up in a circus family.
PRESS
"Chronicles Pisoni’s unique childhood of growing up in a circus family while showcasing the dynamics that develop in the demanding environment of performance."
– Deadline
"The stage and screen performer examines his unusual upbringing as part of San Francisco’s famed Pickle Family Circus."
– Playbill
"Through an incredible collection of stills, home movies, videos and modern day interviews with his father, mother and circus members (which include actor and clown Bill Irwin), Lorenzo brings to life a fascinating sub-culture of circus performers and circus life. The documentary also includes clips from Lorenzo’s own one man stage show about his father. Ultimately “Circus Kid” is a heartfelt, compelling, psychological portrait of a circus, a family, the need for family and a son trying to understand his father."
– Unpaid Film Critic
"The fascinating story of the Pickle Family Circus, with a complicated father-son story at its center."
– Collider
SELECT FESTIVALS
DOC NYC 2016
Woodstock Film Festival 2016
Mill Valley Film Festival 2016
Berkshire International Film Festival 2017
Florida Film Festival 2017
WHERE TO WATCH
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