Finders Keepers
Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel
| USA
| 2015
| 82 min
Who owns your extremities, if they’re no longer attached to your body? This bizarre question becomes an actual legal debate in the incredible Finders Keepers. Shannon Whisnant, bargain hunter extraordinaire, buys an old grill at an auction and is astonished to find a human calf and foot inside. With plans to create a tourist attraction, Whisnant looks to be stymied when the original owner emerges – John Wood, a recovering addict who had his leg amputated after a plane crash. Of course, the media circus arrives en masse and the debate becomes one of ridiculous proportions, in which the filmmakers manage to sensitively capture and encompass class divide, addiction, greed, celebrity, and small town family expectations.
Director Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel
Producer Ed Cunningham, Seth Gordon, Adam Gibbs, Bryan Carberry
Premiere Sydney Premiere
Section Panorama
Festival Year 2015