monterey discovers a beautiful Pearl

November 27, 2007 Thousand Oaks, CA- monterey media is pleased to announce the acquisition of director Sydney King’s magnificent film Pearl Diver. This touching family film was captured on 35mm, which offers extraordinary depth and remarkable beauty as the background for a tale that is both intriguing and heartwarming.

What would you give for the people you love?
Your hopes, dreams? Your life?
Is it possible to give too much of one’s self?

These are the questions that the characters struggle with in Pearl Diver, the feature film debut of writer/director Sidney King. Pearl Diver is the story of two sisters, how they are haunted by the twenty-year old murder of their mother, and what happens when a farming accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night

Marian is a young mother who lives in the rural Mennonite farming community where she grew up, while her younger sister, Hannah, left the community to pursue a writing career in Chicago. When Marion’s six-year old daughter Rebecca is badly injured in a farming accident, Hannah returns home to help. As the two sisters struggle with the circumstances surrounding Rebecca’s accident and how to pay for her medical treatment, their opposing worldviews drive them toward a penultimate confrontation and reconciliation over their shared past, a past that simultaneously divides yet binds them.

They learn that sometimes the secrets from the past can bring hope for the future.

PreBook Date: April 1, 2008
Street Date: April 29, 2008

For more info, and to pre-order Pearl Diver:
Pearl Diver Info

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