Chico Colvard makes his directorial debut with “Family Affair,” an intensely personal documentary in which he examines his own troubled family history. “At 10 years old, Chico Colvard shot his older ...

Three sisters and their father share an unspeakable family secret. It might have remained one but for their brother, who grew up to be a filmmaker. Chico Colvard s 2010 rough-around-the-edges ...

A twisted tale of parental abuse and incest, Chico Colvard's film should be the starting point for many provocative discussions about violation, guilt and reconciliation. By James Greenberg, The ...

I’m sure there are more than a few people out there who look at their dysfunctional family and say “My messed up relatives would make a good backdrop for a documentary.” While many might think that, ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up “Nothing about that day seems real,” filmmaker Chico Colvard said ...

Boston-based documentary filmmaker Chico Colvard's latest film, "Black Memorabilia," begins in a remote village in China. A family of iron workers there works in the same mines as their ancestors ...

After filmmaker Chico Colvard accidentally shoots his little sister in the leg, a family secret comes spilling out of her lips on the hospital bed — their father had molested all three of his sisters.

In America, where family values, talk therapy and on-camera confessions are equally popular, it’s no surprise that the dysfunctional-childhood documentary is something of a specialty. Yet even in a ...

At a recent filmmaking panel hosted by the Massachusetts Production Coalition, filmmaker Chico Colvard offered the following advice to those getting started in moviemaking: read the credits first. The ...

In “Family Affair,” first-time helmer Chico Colvard uses enormous sensitivity, as well as a plunderer’s gift for seizing the revelatory moment in chronicling his siblings’ incestuous plight and his ...