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A decade-long global journey chronicles the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate, and the joy and profound human experience of being alive.
+ MoreA decade-long global journey chronicles the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate, and the joy and profound human experience of being alive.
The oldest human being on the planet is not someone you encounter suddenly, nor someone you know for long. As the years go by, and Sam Green meets the next, and the next, oldest person in the world, his personal fascination with what the title means becomes entangled with his own experience of time, and the joys and pains of his own life. Green’s work has been a cornerstone of documentary filmmaking for a generation of artists. With one of his most intimate films yet, he returns to the Sundance Film Festival with his unique mixture of wry wit, earnest feeling, and formal play. In The Oldest Person in the World, the profound and silly experience of being alive is articulated in a way only film can do. — SS
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Sam Green
Alison Byrne Fields
Josh Penn
Alex Turtletaub
Jennifer J Pritzker
Maida Lynn
Julie Parker Benello
Jenifer Westphal
Marni Grossman
Roman Nesis
Nina Fialkow
Aaron Wickenden
Sam Green
Yoni Brook
William Ryan Fritch
T. Griffin
Serenade
Aggregate
Department of Motion Pictures
Beachside
Cedar Road Productions
Facet
Wavelength
Secret Sauce Media
Free History Project
Alison Byrne Fields
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Sam Green’s documentaries include 32 Sounds, A Thousand Thoughts, The Measure of All Things, The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, and Utopia in Four Movements. Green’s The Weather Underground premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, received an Academy Award nomination, and was included in the Whitney Biennial.
A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.
(1hr 40mins)Previously unseen footage captured by Salman Rushdie’s wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, documents his journey. Following not just his physical rehabilitation, but also the restoration of his spirit and optimism. Inspired by Rushdie’s memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.
(1hr 47mins)In 1983, author Ta-Nehisi Coates learned that a 14-year-old boy was murdered in his Baltimore middle school. Upon revisiting the case, he uncovers the truth: Three innocent teenagers were wrongfully convicted and spent 36 years in prison — creating a lasting impact on the accused, the witnesses, and their community.
(1hr 52mins)After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete.
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