Film Independent Members, you and a guest are invited to watch Remake in the Film Independent Presents Online Screening Room, powered by Vision Media, followed by a pre-recorded conversation with director Ross McElwee, moderated by Jenn Wilson (Senior Programmer, Film Independent).

Filmmaker Ross McElwee has spent forty years recording himself and his family, creating documentaries that chronicle the shifting contours of American society through the lens of personal history. His son Adrian grew up inside those films, and eventually began experimenting with the camera himself. When a Hollywood producer acquires the rights to adapt McElwee’s 1986 breakthrough Sherman’s March into a work of fiction, twenty-year-old Adrian sees a chance for his father to finally reach a wider audience. As the adaptation stalls, Adrian gets swept into a deepening drug addiction and dies from a fentanyl overdose, leaving behind hours of personal video footage. Retracing Adrian’s final years, McElwee reckons with what his camera captured and what remained hauntingly out of frame. As he reflects on a lifetime behind the camera, Ross’s own effort to remix and remake the movie that Adrian never got to finish takes on new significance. An ever-expanding hall of mirrors built from decades of home movies, Remake is both McElwee’s attempt to hold onto his son, and to let him go.

From Music Box Films, Remake premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival where it won the Impact Golden Globes Prize for Documentary. It also played at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Boston Independent Film Festival, Doc Fortnight, True/False Film Festival, and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

 
2026, 116 minutes, color | Written and Directed by Ross McElwee | Produced by Mark Meatto, Ross McElwee | Filmed by Ross McElwee, Adrian McElwee | Edited by Ross McElwee, Joe Bini | Executive Produced by Geralyn White Dreyfous, Jenny Raskin, Regina K. Skully, Brynn Kelly, Ian Darling, Adam & Melony Lewis, Mark Meatto, Ross McElwee
 

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