Sky Atlantic HD presents HBO’s ETHEL
Inside a political dynasty by Emmy® winner Rory Kennedy
Sky Atlantic is proud to announce HBO’s ETHEL, a feature length documentary that gives a very personal portrait of the Kennedy matriarch. Directed by her Emmy ® winning daughter, Rory Kennedy (HBO’s Ghosts of Abu Ghraib), ETHEL will transmit exclusively on Sky Atlantic HD in JANUARY 2013.
ETHEL is the first film made about the Kennedys from within the family, and Ethel’s first interview in over two decades. Now 84, Ethel talks candidly about her life – from her political awakening, to her life with Robert and years following his death. In-depth interviews with her children Kathleen, Joe, Bobby, Courtney, Kerry, Chris and Max ensure a rare and insightful look at the Kennedy dynasty.
With access to rare home videos and personal photographs, ETHEL covers a gamut of events from the McCarthy hearings and the Civil Rights movement, to Vietnam, the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy.
ETHEL revisits some of her most heart-breaking moments. JFK’s assassination in 1963 unleashed, she says, “a tidal wave of grief…It was six months of just blackness.” When asked about her husband’s assassination, a mere five years later, Ethel demurs, expect to say that her children, along with her faith, helped her get through it. “I’d wake up every morning and imagine him up there with Jack.”
An HBO documentary, ETHEL was directed, produced and narrated by Rory Kennedy whose films include HBO’s Killing in the Name, nominated for an Academy Award® for Documentary Short. She’s also produced The Fence (La Barda), Thank You, Mr President:Helen Thomas at the White House and Ghosts fo Abu Ghraib which won a Primetime Emmy® for Outstand Nonfiction Special.
ETHEL will air exclusively on Sky Atlantic HD, Sky Atlantic and Sky Atlantic +1 in January 2013. Sky customers will also be able to view it on the move with Sky Go.
For further information please contact
Tamsyn Zietsman - Head of PR, Sky Atlantic HD
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