Rising Press Film

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Community Storytelling with a Focus on Elders • About

Rising Press Film grew out of work producing Life Videos for hospice patients and work producing the stories of elders in adult daycare.

""Women Swimmin'"
(7:59)
A few hundred women swim across a lake to raise money for hospice care.

"Your Love Never Fails"
A documentary about caregiving

Part of my "Wisdom of Age Project."

Screener available.

"I Never Told Anyone That, But You"
(22:50)
Elders in a shopping center adult daycare center are, some of them say, invisible—not noticed or listened to. In this video, we listen to two elders' stories about seminal moments in their lives.

"Finding Linda:

A Family's Journey Coping with

Primary Progressive Aphasia"
(28:54)
Produced over six years, the film depicts the loving care that Linda Loyd's family gave during a long struggle to cope with the disease, which slowly robs one of the ability to use and understand language.

"Out of the Dark & Into the Light"

(15:52)
Brooke Carrillo is a hospice chaplain, and former hospice nurse, a minister in a historically black church, the founder of a Hispanic church, and a Spanish-language radio show host. She has been called to serve.

"The Things We Take for Granted"
(11:04)
A day-in-the-life of a visiting hospice nurse in Hampton, Virginia, with Sentara Hospice Care.

Student Documentary Work
in the student Wisdom of Age Project
Documentaries made by undergraduates documenting the stories of elders.

Also see: www.wisdomofageproject/hr for more student work.