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- ↑ "Tribeca Film Festival Announces 2016 Competition Lineup That's 33% Female-Helmed". Indiewire , March 4, 2016.
- ↑ "The shadow of AIDS: POV to broadcast ‘Memories of a Penitent Heart’ in 2017". San Diego LGBT Weekly, April 15, 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Tribeca Doc 'Memories of a Penitent Heart' Tenderly Examines a Lost Life". Village Voice , April 27, 2016.
- ↑ "New film unveils truth about a man shunned by his family because of AIDS". Dallas Voice , May 16, 2016.
