BROTHER VERSES BROTHER

A Live Cinema Musical Novella

90 Minutes • Color • Coming in 2024 along with the Scribner Poetry Award-winning book Father Verses Sons

The story of twin musicians searching for their dying poet father, Brother Verses Brother is a moving, funny, & profound journey up the lost rivers of Beatnik San Francisco. Filmed in a single shot to evoke a real-time safari, it is a one-of-a-kind tale about the bonds of family, and the power of music & poetry to heal a broken world.

Brother Verses Brother is also a rare vision of American culture, taking the audience on a magical tour through the secret haunts of Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg - and co-starring the last Beat writer on earth, 99-year-old Herbert Gold, in a role performed just weeks before his death.

It features original music by the Brothers Gold (Ethan Gold & Ari Gold), along with local jazz legend Lara Louise, Brian Bell (Weezer), & S.F. Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin.

Sound is being mixed in April 2024 at American Zoetrope.

Produced by Michelle Stratton, Grack Films, and Starr Sutherland.

The companion book Father Verses Sons - A Correspondence in Poems will be released with events at City Lights Books, Skylight Books, and other fine bookstores starting in Spring 2024.