Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, Shotgun Stories illuminates the life of three brothers named Son, Boy, and Kid, abandoned as boys by a father who could not even bother to give them proper names. At their father’s funeral, a feud begins to simmer between these forgotten sons and the new young men their common patriarch raised after he left and became a model Christian. Filmmaker Jeff Nichols bravely explores the complex issues of family and revenge in this work that received a New American Cinema Award and which the jury called “a starkly powerful tale told with a distinctively American voice.”