From the moment Tosh refuses to fill in his assessment form and serenades us with a remarkably good Sinatra song, this documentary grabs life through song. Six hospice patients allow us into tender, vulnerable and funny moments of their lives. Singing unlocks the patients’ pasts, guides their dreams and their futures. A passionate and touching film about uncertainty, about the future that faces all of us, with a score by Mark Orton.
“Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community to help face your own mortality, making the process of dying itself safe, individual, and as gentle as possible.” – Director Amy Hardie
Screening Formats: HD-Cam, QT file, DVD, BluRay, DCP
Highlights:
NOMINATED – Best Single Documentary – BAFTA Scotland Awards 2016
NOMINATED – Best Factual Single – Celtic Media Festival 2016
Screenings:
OFFICIAL SELECTION – DocPoint, Finland 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Thessaloniki Doc Market, Greece 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION – SXSW, USA 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Gather Film Festival, UK 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION – DOXA, Canada 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION – DocEdge, NZ 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Emdem–Nordeney, Germany 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION – South Bay Film and Music Festival, USA 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Naples International Film Festival, USA 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION – EBS Int’l Documentary Festival, S. Korea 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Aspen Film Festival, USA 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Scottish Mental Health Festival 2016
SCREENED – Edinburgh Printmakers ‘Time is All Around’, UK 2016
SCREENED – Margaret Mead, USA 2016
SCREENED – Hospice Care Week UK 2015
SCREENED – TX on BBC Scotland October 2015
SCREENED – One World + Get Your Own Audience Tour 2016
Reviews:
★★★★ – The Guardian
“This incredibly moving documentary is all the more affecting because of the unsentimental way it’s told.”
★★★★★ – Vulturehound Magazine
“It is entirely authentic throughout, in that it does not for one moment attempt the fiction of presenting song as a miraculous cure or solution to the wretched situations that the patients find themselves in.”
★★★★ – Total Film
“everyday people made larger-than life through quirky wit and sheer strength of character”
★★★★ – The Herald
“remarkable and hugely dignified”
Links:
Official Website
Hard Working Movies
To arrange a screening please contact: festivals@scotdoc.com
Producer:Sonja Henrici, Amy Hardie
Exec Producer: Lori Cheatle - Hard Working Movies
Composer: Mark Orton
Editors: Colin Monie, Nick Gibbon
