Alive Inside

Alive Inside (2014)

Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease and dementia—many of them alone in nursing homes. A man with a simple idea discovers that songs embedded deep in memory can ease pain and awaken these fading minds. Joy and life are resuscitated, and our cultural fears over aging are confronted.

Data di uscita
2014-01-18
TMDB
7.6 / 10 (84)
Durata
1 h 14 min
Generi
Documentario
Regista
Michael Rossato-Bennett

Cast

Curiosità

  • Premi: 1 · Candidature: 0. Tra cui: Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory is a 2014 American documentary film directed and produced by Michael Rossato-Bennett. The film premiered in the competition category of U.S. Documentary Competition program at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. It won the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary at the festival. The documentary explores diseases that impair neurological function, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia, and proposes a treatment option that is claimed to improve a patient's quality of life. It discusses that the elderly community are on the decline in social status and that western society neglects old age to idealize youth.

Production

A kickstarter crowdfunding project to finish the film and develop an app was formed in 2012.

After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, BOND/360 did a service publicity deal for the theatrical distribution of the film. The film was released on July 18, 2014, in the United States. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The film ran on Netflix for 3 years and then on Amazon Prime. It has since been released on Vimeo.

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