12th & Delaware

12th & Delaware
Directed byRachel Grady
Heidi Ewing
Produced byRachel Grady
Heidi Ewing
CinematographyKat Patterson
Edited byEnat Sidi
Music byDavid Darling
Production
company
Loki Films
Distributed byHBO Documentary Films
Release date
  • January 24, 2010 (2010-01-24) (Sundance)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

12th & Delaware is a 2010 American documentary film set in a crisis pregnancy center (named Pregnancy Care Center) and an abortion clinic (named A Woman's World Medical Center)[1] across the street from it in Fort Pierce, Florida. The film was produced and filmed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing and covers the center and its patients over the period of a year. The film shows interviews of staff at both facilities, as well as pregnant women who are going to them.[2] 12th & Delaware premiered on January 24, 2010, at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition.[3] It won a Peabody Award that same year "for its poignant portrait of women facing exceedingly difficult decisions at a literal intersection of opposing ideologies."[4]

One of the interviewees was president of the Pregnancy Care Centre, Father Thomas J. Euteneuer.[5] In January 2011, Euteneuer issued a statement disclosing that he had "violat[ed] the boundaries of chastity with an adult female ... I take full responsibility for my own poor judgment, my weakness and my sinful conduct that resulted from it".[5] and then in June 2012, it was reported that a woman had filed a lawsuit accusing Euteneuer of sexual abuse during what were supposed to be exorcisms.[6]

References

  1. ^ Names of both centers visible, 5minutes into documentary, on signs outside both centers.
  2. ^ Weinberg, Scott (January 26, 2010). "Sundance Review: 12th and Delaware". Cinematical. Archived from the original on January 28, 2010. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
  3. ^ "12th & Delaware". Sundance Institute. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
  4. ^ 70th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2011.
  5. ^ a b "Former HLI head admits 'imprudent decisions' led to his departure". Catholic News Agency (ACI Prensa). February 2, 2011. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  6. ^ Gowen, Annie (June 27, 2012). "Arlington lawsuit says priest sexually assaulted woman during 'exorcisms'". Local. Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 11, 2018. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards


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