The AlzAuthors Film Festival Preview

All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome AlzAuthors and filmmakers to discuss the upcoming AlzAuthors Film Festival.

 

About the Filmmakers and their Films:

 

Sept 8: Mary Crescenzo and her film, "Planet A"

 

Synopsis: Planet A

 

Planet A reveals the good, bad, and ugly secrets, thoughts and frustrations of past lives and present realities of Alzheimer's patients, their caregivers and family members. Follow Pauline and others who reside at a care home, when an arts practitioner working with residents unlocks the door to this world through an interwoven narrative of monologues and dialogs from distinct points of view. Planet A bears witness to both inhabitants and visitors who enter this terrain and shines a light in the darkness of this disease. Enter this land of revelation and unintentional masquerade where anyone can be called to reside.

 

Sept 22: Susie Singer Carter and her film, "No Country For Old People"

 

Synopsis: "No Country For Old People"

 

A filmmaker chronicles her mother's last 6 months in a 5-star nursing home exposing the systemic, deadly, profit-over-people business model. No Country For Old People is a scorching documentary posed to set the long term care industry, policy makers, and the country ablaze. Shining a much-needed light on what is truly a national human emergency, it is a clarion call for serious change.

 

October 6th: Frank Silverstein and his film "Lousy: Love in the Time of Dementia"

 

Synopsis: LOUSY: Love in the Time of Dementia

 

LOUSY: Love in the Time of Dementia is a front-row seat to ground-game dementia: its impact on my parents' life and our family's response. My parents cling to each other— singing, shouting and dancing— defying a world that overwhelms them. This film documents how their love helps them cope with their dementia and each other, and explores how this reality has restructured our family connections to each other and to the world. Full of painful humor and raw emotion, the film watches our family responding in real time, as we are forced to revise our relationships and rules for engagement on the fly.

 

November 10th: Kitty Norton and her documentary "Wine, Women, and Dementia"

 

Synopsis: "Wine, Women, and Dementia:

 

The documentary feature, Wine, Women, & Dementia, tells the tale of dementia life through the lens of the family caregivers who strive to accept the beauty and the brutality, the hilarious and the horrific - for themselves and their dementia person. It is a road trip around the U.S. in celebration of family caregivers and that swinging dementia lifestyle. Over glasses of wine the caregivers swap tales of love, humor, devotion, and death and most importantly how to honor LIFE on the long road to death.

 

December 8th: C. Nathan Brown and his film, "The Present"

 

Synopsis: "The Present":

 

Celebrating Christmas isn't the same for Mya and her family since her mother died from Alzheimer's disease. But a Christmas miracle could be in store.

 

Connect and Register for the AlzAuthors Film Festival: Official Website: https://www.alzauthors.com