One Thursday afternoon in 1983, my grandmother Rosa Tursi, a 72-year-old Italian immigrant, was watching her favorite soap opera in her living room when bank robbers burst into her ground-floor Montreal apartment and took her hostage—at least according to my family. We’ve been telling this story for years. But did this really happen as we remember it? Have we all been exaggerating? Or is the reality even wilder than we ever could have imagined? In the short documentary The Time My Grandmother Was Held Hostage by Bank Robbers, I join members of my family to re-tell the story to get to the truth. Along the way, a shocking discovery casts a whole new light on the incident.

 

The film has been shot and edited. Now, I am raising money via this Indiegogo campaign to pay for music, archives, color correction and other necessities to finish the 25-minute film so I can submit it to film festivals.