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  • 2024

  • Work in Progress Screening – How to Die, Boston

    Been making films for 25+ years, but think it’s the first time I’ve ever gotten thank you cards from my doc subjects…!! That’s what happens when you collaborate with a team of incredible psychedelic therapist/palliative care clinicians, so loving, inspiring & connected to their hearts…

    Film is not finished! But just back from Boston doing a work in progress screening for the research team, invited by Yvan, the principal investigator on the hospice/psilocybin study (he booked a theatre- including popcorn!) A lot of tears & emotion, especially since most of the patients we followed in the film are gone now…

    But not all: I got to visit Joanne, the last patient in the film, who’s still going strong… and screen the film for her in her living room, with her friend Janice (she has an amazing circle of friends who are her chosen family, and have shown up for her in such a big way…)

    Hasn’t been easy making this film (and has taken so much patience and openness from the patients, and the study team-!) but been such a profound and humbling experience witnessing these end-of-life journeys, and the depth of people’s experiences using this sacred medicine (psilocybin). So grateful to be part of this work. Can’t wait to share these stories.

    (Also: they got me a mushroom pillow! 😊 )

    howtodie #psilocybin #endoflife #dying #documentary #lifedeathlife

    @danafarber @caredimensions @harvardmed

  • 2022

  • 2019

  • GIFT SCREENINGS 2019

    OPENS IN NEW YORK CITY ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
    NOTE: WITH SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING WITH AUTHOR LEWIS HYDE & DIRECTOR ROBIN MCKENNA IN-PERSON ON THE EVENING OF THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10
    Quad Cinema
    34 W. 13th Street, New York, NY 07470

    OPENS IN LOS ANGELES ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
    Laemmle’s Monica Film Center
    1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401

    OPENS IN PORTLAND ON FRIDAY, OCT 18
    Regal Fox Tower
    846 SW Park Ave, Portland OR 97205

    OPENS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (MULTIPLE VENUES) ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
    Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinema
    501 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102
    &
    Smith Rafael Film Center
    1118 4th Street, San Rafael, CA 94901
    &
    Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas
    2230 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704

    NOTE: SPECIAL SCREENING WED, OCTOBER 16 WITH ROBIN MCKENNA & AUTHOR LEWIS HYDE
    Landmark’s Clay Theater  
    2261 Fillmore St, San Francisco CA 94115

    OPENS IN BOSTON ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1
    >Q & A WITH AUTHOR LEWIS HYDE, FRIDAY NOV 1st
    Landmark’s Kendall Square Cinema
    1 Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02139

    OPENS IN DENVER ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1
    Landmark’s Chez Artiste Theatre
    4150 E Amherst Avenue, Denver, CO 80222

    OPENS IN WASHINGTON, DC ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1
    Landmark’s E Street Cinema
    555 11th Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20004

    OPENS IN SANTA FE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1
    Center for Contemporary Arts
    1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505

    OPENS IN YORK, PA ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1
    Small Star Arthouse
    232 West Market Street, York, PA 17401

    OPENS IN MINNEAPOLIS ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8
    Landmark’s Lagoon Cinema
    1320 Lagoon Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55408

    More info & tickets here: http://www.giftitforwardproject.com/the-film/screenings/

  • 2018