TY - ADVS
T1 - I Am Breathing
AU - Davie, Emma
AU - McKinnon, Morag
A2 - Henrici, Sonja
N1 - The film premiered at IDFA in November 2012. IDFA is the most influential documentary festival in the world and is highly competitive and allows the film's launch to have maximum international impact before distribution to other festivals and tv stations.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - A feature documentary asking “ How can film communicate the experience of a 34 year old man, paralysed with Motor Neuron Disease ? How can fiction and documentary combine to find a filmic language to communicate this? What are the ethical implications of filming at this stage of his life ?"I am Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34 year old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life – and the impossibility of terminating a mobile phone contract. With five months left to live, and paralysed from the neck down by Motor Neurone Disease, he ponders how to communicate abou this life in a letter for his baby son. How can he anticipate what he might want to know about his father in a future he can only imagine?directed by Emma Davie and Morag Mckinnonproduced by Sonja Henriciin co-production with Danish Documentary ProductionExec Producer: Noemie MendelleAbout SDI Research and Impact Insight (ongoing)I Am Breathing was pitched in 2009 at Edinburgh Pitch (international forum organised by SDI for broadcasters to listen to projects in development) and taken through Interdoc Plus, in search of international funding in 2010. (total budget raised: £302,000)The scheme was able to support a lengthy period of development outside the norms of documentary for TV, enhancing the quality and creativity of the film but also engaging and developing cutting edge outreach strategies at early stage in order to develop a relationship with potential audience. This research has resulted in SDI now employing a team to organise outreach distribution around the film, linked to different audiences (documentary lovers, medical institutions, charitable organisations...)
AB - A feature documentary asking “ How can film communicate the experience of a 34 year old man, paralysed with Motor Neuron Disease ? How can fiction and documentary combine to find a filmic language to communicate this? What are the ethical implications of filming at this stage of his life ?"I am Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34 year old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life – and the impossibility of terminating a mobile phone contract. With five months left to live, and paralysed from the neck down by Motor Neurone Disease, he ponders how to communicate abou this life in a letter for his baby son. How can he anticipate what he might want to know about his father in a future he can only imagine?directed by Emma Davie and Morag Mckinnonproduced by Sonja Henriciin co-production with Danish Documentary ProductionExec Producer: Noemie MendelleAbout SDI Research and Impact Insight (ongoing)I Am Breathing was pitched in 2009 at Edinburgh Pitch (international forum organised by SDI for broadcasters to listen to projects in development) and taken through Interdoc Plus, in search of international funding in 2010. (total budget raised: £302,000)The scheme was able to support a lengthy period of development outside the norms of documentary for TV, enhancing the quality and creativity of the film but also engaging and developing cutting edge outreach strategies at early stage in order to develop a relationship with potential audience. This research has resulted in SDI now employing a team to organise outreach distribution around the film, linked to different audiences (documentary lovers, medical institutions, charitable organisations...)
KW - MOTOR NEURON DISEASE
KW - ALS
KW - Dying
KW - CAREGIVERS
KW - Family Health
KW - DEATH
M3 - Digital or Visual Products
PB - SDI Productions Ltd
CY - International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands plus over 200 other screenings
T2 - International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
Y2 - 26 November 2012 through 2 December 2012
ER -