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Memento Mori
20161 h 29 min 15 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Niobe Thompson
Production: Rosie Dransfeld (ID: Productions Inc.)David Christensen (National Film Board of Canada)Bonnie Thompson (National Film Board of Canada)Bruce Cowley
Script: Niobe Thompson
Co-produced by ID Productions Inc. and the National Film Board of Canada in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Documentary Channel.
Memento mori is an evocative cinematic journey alongside the living and the dying, bringing to the screen a human drama never-before captured on film. With remarkable access to Canada’s busiest organ-transplant hospital, we witness one of the most profound experiences in any human life: the loss of a child, and the agonizing decision this tragedy demands. Created by two acclaimed Canadian documentarians, director Niobe Thompson and producer Rosvita Dransfeld, Memento mori grips the viewer in a relentless, emotional embrace—propelling us from moments of unexpected joy to unbearable heartbreak—until the very final frame. An arresting tour de force of vérité filmmaking, immersing us completely in a world few of us understand but which we’ll all one day encounter.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Accidents, Emergencies and First AidBioethicsCoping with Illness and DyingHospitals and medical clinics
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Aging/Death and Dying
- Science > Biology
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values
- Health/Personal Development > Human Growth and Development
Credits
- director
- Niobe Thompson
- executive producer
- Rosie Dransfeld
- David Christensen
- producer
- Rosie Dransfeld
- Bonnie Thompson
- director of photography
- aAron Munson
- Sergio Olivares
- editor
- Scott Parker
- writer
- Niobe Thompson
- composer
- Jonathan Kawchuk
- assistant editor
- Esther Viragh
- additional camera work
- Daron Donahue
- Tamarra Canu
- production manager
- Sandra Tober
- production coordinator
- Esther Viragh
- production assistant
- Tamarra Canu
- Dylan Rhys Howard
- Myles Belland
- location sound recording
- Philip Dransfeld
- Carey Opper
- audio post production
- Johnny Blerot Sound Inc.
- sound design
- John Blerot
- sound mix
- John Blerot
- additional sound design
- Jonathan Kawchuk
- sound editor
- John Blerot
- Perry Blackman
- Iain Pattison
- Jordan Ivey
- Chris Szott
- musician
- Christine Hanson
- Keri Zwicker
- Jennifer McMillan
- Neda Yamach
- Rafael Hoekman
- Dianne New
- Andrew Reid
- Clayton Leung
- Josh Rapanos
- colour grading
- Joe Owens
- online masters
- Joe Owens
- graphics
- Scott Portingale
- production accountant
- Richard Warburton
- production bookkeeper
- Hui Min
- production solicitor
- Norman Bishop
- visual research
- Gina Cali
- production stills
- Tamarra Canu
- marketing manager
- Melissa Wheeler
- post-production co-ordinator
- Ginette D'Silva
- Jasmine Pullukatt
- Faye Yoneda
- production supervisor
- Mark Power
- Esther Viragh
- centre administrator
- Bree Beach
- centre operations manager
- Darin Clausen
- executive director
- Michelle van Beusekom
- Jennifer Dettman
- director of production
- Alexandra Lane
- director of finance
- Julie Lawlor
- production executive
- Bruce Cowley
Awards
- Best Documentary Feature FilmCinequest