| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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003043 |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2013. |
| Summary |
2013 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Short Subject, KINGS POINT tracks the stories of five residents of a retirement community in Florida who arrived decades ago with their health intact and spouses by their sides. Now that they and their community, comprised primarily of widowed women, face advanced age and mortality, paradise demands a higher price.. Through candid interviews the film exposes the dynamic interplay of their desire for independence, need for community, and ambivalence toward growing old. Filmmaker and Emmy nominee Sari Gilman deftly balances seriousness with humor, providing a bittersweet look at love, loss and self-preservation as well as a deeply empathetic portrait of aging in America and the American Dream’s last act.. "This heartbreaking documentary astonishes…" The Los Angeles Times |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
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Health
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Jews--Study and teaching
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Ethnicity |
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Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Gilman, Sari, filmmaker
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Women Make Movies (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
3288467 Kanopy |
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