Other Side is a feature-length documentary premiering at South by Southwest Film Festival in March!
The film details Lynda Bluestein’s journey accessing Medical Aid in Dying in Vermont as an out of state resident.
Directed by: Heather Hogan & Carter Oakley
Executive Produced by: Celia Aniskovich
Cinematography by: Cody Ball & Carter Oakley
Fiscal Sponsor: E2AC
Death Differently is cinematic education on innovations in death care featuring death doulas, hospice workers, alternative death advocates, music thanatologists, green burial funeral directors, and many others.
The series’ goal is to highlight these individuals working in the emerging - but mostly unknown - death and dying space to challenge death myths that contribute to end-of-life anxiety.
Series website: deathdifferently.org
Wind phones are not only for those of us who have experienced a loss through death. They can be a supportive way to grieve what are called shadow losses. This might be losing a relationship, a job, a dream.
We connected with Allison Stillwell Young in East Nashville, Tennessee, to observe the stories that breeze through the wind phone she installed in her front yard. In this episode, our fly-on-the-wall approach immerses you in the complicated, and surprisingly sweet, rhythm of grief.
Official selections of the Big Apple Film Festival and One Reeler Film Competition, My Barbie Junk is a film adaptation of my Jane McClary Oakley’s short story of the same name. How cancer colored a lifelong relationship to Barbie.
Written by: Jane McClary Oakley.
Produced by: Redins.