The speech was in fact based on a talk that Father Corridan had given repeatedly.
Kove originally wanted to make the film biographical, based on a story her father told her: he had dreamed of being an artist, and made an appointment with an art teacher to ask if he was good enough to make it in the art world.
Based on a story Ventura's father told him as a child, "Automaton" is set in 1943, an especially dark period in Italian history.
Other paintings here include "Seven Acts of Mercy," painted around 1616, derived from an engraving based on a drawing by his father and illustrating a biblical passage.
This year's excellent-as-usual lineup opens with a work in progress by the choreographer Clarinda Mac Low, "The Pronouns (Experiment #2)." Based on a book by her father, the poet Jackson Mac Low, it honors what would have been his 90th birthday.
Riley's poem "The Raggedy Man" was based on a German tramp his father hired to work at the family home.
Pointing to a report in the Saudi newspaper Al Watan in January, the women wrote: The ruling is based on a Shariah argument that fathers cannot be executed for murdering their children, nor can husbands be executed for murdering their wives.
One program adopted from a success in Philadelphia offers job training and family skills, based on a shared brotherhood, to fathers who are unemployed or underemployed, and men who've been in prison.
"Beginners" (2011) featured a character based on Mills — reticent, emotionally scarred — and one based on his father, an art historian who, after becoming a widower in his seventies, came out as gay, bloomed briefly, then died.
"THE BIG MOUTH MOUSE," a puppet show based on a traditional Japanese fable about a father who brags that no mere mouse is great enough to marry his beautiful daughter, who has fallen in love with a cheese-delivery boy.
