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Review- "Charleston City Paper"'s Felicia Feaster reviews "Motherland" by Mark Lipsky on 2009-08-26
Gigantic Digital Cinema has a novel way to distribute their films — They don't. At least not in the traditional way, with films first being released in theaters and then to DVD. Gigantic's films are available for viewers across the nation to stream digitally on the same day they are released in big-city theaters.
Director Jennifer Steinman's Motherland — which will be released strictly online by Gigantic — is in many ways an ideal candidate for this 21st century exhibition style. Its heartbreaking subject matter — the loss of a child — makes it perfect for home viewing. As cathartic as the film can be, no one necessarily wants to find themselves in a movie theater weeping as openly and as often as one does in Motherland.