Spotlight on Aging
[Source: GFEM Media Database, October 15, 2010]
If your foundation supports grantmaking related to aging, you will want to review these and other projects in the GFEM Media Database at media.gfem.org.
Golden Hour
Golden Hour is a short narrative that deals with accepting what you have and the realization that sometimes, what you are missing may be better left unfound.
Last Rights: Facing End-of-Life Choices
Who decides how life ends? Through the heartrending journeys of four terminally ill patients accompanied by their families, this compelling documentary film looks at some available choices for the dying and the controversies they engender.
What Time Is Left
Filmmaker Dakin Henderson, age 24, grew up with two grandmothers who have aged very differently-one is a healthy and active 86-year old, the other died recently after a long and painful decline into dementia. From the perspective of the youngest generation, What Time Is Left is a personal story of how three generations of one family are coping with the process of their loved elders growing old and dying.
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is a television inquiry into the extraordinary if largely unsung life of Anne Braden, organizer, agitator, Southerner, journalist, feminist, teacher and mentor described as "one of the great figures of our time" by noted historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall.
W.C. Handy: The Father of the Blues
A musical documentary that traces the life of W.C. Handy, who has become known as the "Father of the Blues," will use live performances of his music, archival footage and interviews with current music luminaries, historiographers, family members and musicologists.
Cooked
In July 1995 a heat wave hit Chicago; 739 people, mostly elderly, died that week. Survival was determined by the neighborhoods where people lived: air-conditioned supermarkets and movie theaters, or quick-marts and boarded-up stores? Cooked is a feature documentary and engagement campaign that asks questions and explores solutions every U.S. city is grappling with. Global warming? Poverty? Green jobs? All together?
