
TFI Documentary Fund 2012
Novelist and filmmaker, Laurie Gwen Shapiro received an Independent Spirit Award for Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (IFC Films, 2001) and an Emmy nomination for (HBO, 2009).

After years apart, Shawney returns home to find his once "normal" family
gone, replaced by a strip-club-owner father, anorexic mother and sociopathic
brother.