DYING AT GRACE

This film is about the experience of dying. Five terminal patients in a Palliative Care Unit share the last days of their lives and deaths with a film crew. They do so in the hope that their experience will be useful to the audience in managing its own fear of dying and death. Their families, friends and staff share in the task. Without narration or interviews, the camera simply and intimately observes the events that occur over the course of 14 weeks as five people come face to face with the doorway through which we all must pass.

Allan King
Director

Allan King is one of Canada's leading filmmakers. Retrospectives of his work have been held in Montréal (1961), London (1970 and 1984), Rome (1983), and Toronto (1995). King’s first film in the "actuality drama" genre was Warrendale, a film about emotionally disturbed children. Jean Renoir considered it the most remarkable documentary he had ever seen and it won the Prix d'art et d'essai at Cannes in 1967. It also shared the British Academy's best foreign film award with Antonioni's Blow Up and the New York Critics' Award with Buñuel's Belle du Jour. Among King’s numerous other films are the feature documentaries A Married Couple (1970) and The Dragon’s Egg (1999), and Who Has Seen the Wind (1976), his first dramatic feature. Allan King has also directed extensively for television.

Digital Betacam

148 minutes

Colour

Producer and Director

Allan King

Associate Producer

Sarah Zammit

Executive Producer

Kathy Johnson

Director of Photography

Peter Walker

Editor

Nick Hector

Sound

Jason Milligan

Production/Distribution

Allan King Associates Limited
965 Bay St.
Suite 2409
Toronto Ontario
M5S 2A3
Canada
(416) 964-7284
(416) 964-7997
info@allankingfilms.com
www.allankingfilms.com

CATALOGUE

Feature Films 2004