NFB Collection
The Last Days of Living
198057 min 52 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Malca Gillson
Production: Tom DalyArthur HammondBarrie Howells
A film about the Palliative Care Unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal. An interdisciplinary team helps terminally ill patients and their families come to grips with the facts of death. Efforts are concentrated not on prolonging life, but on making the last days of living more comfortable and rewarding.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > CancerCoping with Illness and DyingHospitals and medical clinics
- Seniors > Health and IllnessInstitutional CareSocial Problems
Credits
- director
- Malca Gillson
- editing
- Malca Gillson
- producer
- Tom Daly
- executive producer
- Arthur Hammond
- Barrie Howells
- photography
- Robert Humble
- Barry Perles
- sound
- Bev Davidson
- Michel Hazel
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- narrator
- Barry Cowling
Awards
- Grand Prize of the University of MarburgMedikinale International
- Gold Medal - Category: Specialized Information FilmsMedikinale International
- Best of ShowHEMA (Health Education Media Association) Film Festival
- Gold Plaque - Category: Social IssuesInternational Film Festival
- Chris Bronze Plaque International Film and Video Festival
- Honorable MentionGolden Gate Awards Competition & International Film Festival
- Honorable MentionGolden Gate Awards Competition & International Film Festival