Malia Bruker, Assistant Professor for CCI’s College of Communication and Director is being honored this weekend. Her documentary, Heirloom, will be celebrated this weekend at the Central Florida Film Festival. Heirloom will be shown on Friday the 29th at 1 PM in Theater 1 & Saturday the 30th at 4:50 PM in Theater 3. The festival traditionally accepts 75-80 films and attracts hundreds of cinephiles from across the country.

Update 1/14/15: Heirloom has been named an official selection of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. The film will screen February 15th at 2:45 and February 18th at 7:5, at the Roxie in San Francisco.

Bruker’s poignant documentary follows her parents, Dave and Sherry, on a 4-month road trip across the country. Dave and Sherry came of age in the 60s in the US—they protested war, fought for the environment, fell in love during a hitchhiking trip across the country, and raised their family in a “back to the land” community. Director and daughter, Malia Bruker, contemplates the baby-boomers’ legacy of social change and her own generation’s apathy. Heirloom follows the unconventional family as they survey the mutable landscape of their country, confronting one another’s notions of idealism, social responsibility and hope.

The film has been screened at Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco Frozen Film Festival, Shooting Wall Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine Pobre in Cuba, and the Diamond Screen Film Festival. Though it’s been shown across the United States and internationally, a Florida screening is important to Bruker.

“I’m really excited to be able to show this film in Florida,” she says. “I shot part of it here and of course now that I’m living here it means a lot to be able to share it with my fellow Floridians. I’m also looking forward to connecting with other filmmakers living and making work in the region.”

Interested in Heirloom? Check out the trailer: Heirloom Preview from Malia Bruker