I first found out about Kathy Leichter’s documentary, Here One Day (above), via an email announcing the film’s Kickstarter campaign. Like many independent filmmakers, I receive many such emails. But what set this one apart from the others was the sender, filmmaker/editor (and friend) Pola Rapaport, whose work I greatly admire – and the film’s subject.
Here One Day (screening at Ifp’s Independent Film Week, Spotlight on Documentaries) is about Kathy’s mother’s bipolar disorder and suicide. It’s a story about what a person with mental illness does to a family–a story many of us can relate to–and how a family copes and moves on. When I heard about Here One Day, I wondered what it would be like to make that kind of personal documentary? What are the challenges of probing loss so intimately, of revealing a family’s difficult history,...
Here One Day (screening at Ifp’s Independent Film Week, Spotlight on Documentaries) is about Kathy’s mother’s bipolar disorder and suicide. It’s a story about what a person with mental illness does to a family–a story many of us can relate to–and how a family copes and moves on. When I heard about Here One Day, I wondered what it would be like to make that kind of personal documentary? What are the challenges of probing loss so intimately, of revealing a family’s difficult history,...
- 9/14/2012
- by David Licata
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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