On September 11, John Kenney s older brother was one of the first firefighters to arrive after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Tom Kenney is a Lieutenant on the Massachusetts FEMA Team, a specialist in building collapse search and rescue. Tom spent seven days searching through the rubble for survivors. His father and both grandfathers were firefighters. A lifelong Boston native, it was Tom s first trip to New York. John Kenney, a copywriter in New York, spent those first seven days after September 11 trying to see his brother, Tom, trying to get into Ground Zero, trying to get into the heavily guarded Jacob Javits Center, where the rescue workers were housed. But he couldn t. Like all New Yorker s, like all Americans, he was desperate to help, to do something. This is the story of two brothers from a Boston-Irish family of six boys. Two brothers who could not be more different in the paths they took in life. Those paths brought them to New York, for vastly different reasons. And on September 17, those paths converged. Looking For My Brother was lauded at its premiere at the Boston Film Festival, where it appeared alongside films by Acedemy Award-winning filmmakers Ridely Scott and Errol Morris. It features a rare, personal interview with former President George Herbert Walker Bush and the narration of award-winning actor Alan Rickman. This is the story of John Kenney looking for and, eventually, finding his brother in a way he never thought possible.
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