The Movie That Made Me: Gordon Quinn On ‘Happy Mother’s Day’

The Movie That Made Me: Gordon Quinn On ‘Happy Mother’s Day’

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In 1963, Andrew and Marianne Fischer became the parents of quintuplets. The event was momentous because it was the fourth recorded birth of quints in U.S. history and the first to survive. 

Legendary documentary filmmaker Gordon Quinn tells us how Happy Mother’s Day shaped what he wanted to do at Kartemquin Films.