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CRITIC’S PICK “Family Portrait is riveting” - LA Weekly “Engaging documentary…Well-crafted, nicely scored.” – Variety “An emotionally absorbing subject filled with layers of complexity.” - Now Toronto “Masterfully packed with more societal and psychological issues than any other film showing at HotDocs this year.” – CritisizeThis 20 th SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL (USA) “PREMIERE -World Documentary Competition” 18 th HOT DOCS FILM FESTIVAL (Canada) “Grand Prize: Best Canadian Film Award” 56 TH VALLADOLID INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Spain) “Cultural Diversity Award” and “Time of History Third Prize” 6th MIRADASDOC –Documentary Film Festival Guia de Isadora (Spain) “Audience Award” Addl Festivals: IDFA Best of Fests , Los Angeles , Mumbai, Bergen, Haifa, Hamptons, Watch Docs Human Rights, Astra, Message to Man, Vancouver, This Human World, Cleveland, Glasgow, EBS Docs, Human Rights Watch plus more !" 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Posted: Thu., Feb. 3, 2011, 10:23pm PT Engaging docu considers the much-extended household of Olga Nenya, a middle-aged Ukrainian woman who's foster mother to 17 children. By DENNIS HARVEY Engaging docu "Family Portrait in Black and White" considers the much-extended household of Olga Nenya, a middle-aged Ukrainian woman who's foster mother to 17 children, many mixed-race. But while the pic initially appears an inspirational portrait of one small domestic stand against pervasive racism, the real drama of Julia Ivanova's feature lies in the kids' dawning perception that their well-intentioned but stubbornly old-fashioned benefactress may be unable or unwilling to make the right decisions for their future. Pic should snap up broadcast deals along the fest route, with niche theatrical sales possible in markets with emigre enclaves from former Soviet territories. A figure who wouldn't be out of place in a 1930s USSR agricultural propaganda film, Nenya is proudly unconcerned about the derogatory attitudes a seeming majority of her fellow countrymen feel toward blacks. We hear skinheads offer such wisdoms as, "If a white and a subhuman produce an offspring, the