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Synopsis
EXIT STRATEGY: FROM SCARED TO SACRED is a feature documentary exploring the death positive movement. This social and philosophical approach that encourages people to speak openly about death and dying. The film aims to normalize end-of-life (EOL) and death conversations, burial options, and transparency around corpse disposition and introduces more sustainable modern approaches i.e. natural organic reduction (NOR), green burial, or reforesting the world by planting people and pets as trees when they die. Opening the conversation to overcome our cultural fears and celebrate lives lived and passed. The film subjects, leaders in the death positive movement, guide us in a physical and metaphysical journey.
Bio
Director/Producer Wendy R. Corn is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose films have been featured at SXSW and other festivals. Her films have addressed spirituality and community on topics such as death, laughter, Judaism, and community song circles. Wendy produced an annual teen 24-hr. filmmaking event called “Lights, Camera, Chutzpah" underwritten by the Austin Jewish Film Festival. She has been a part of the SXSW Photography Crew as a photographer & crew chief. Wendy conceived, produced, cast, and shot the award-winning "Praise HA!", a documentary about laughter as a healer, which included Wavy Gravy, and Patch Adams amongst others. She produced and helped program the Avignon/New York Film Festival, and has worked on various other film festivals (New Directors/New Films, NYFF, Shorts International, NY Comedy, New York Women in Film and Television) in management and programming. She has also been in front of the camera as a location reporter. She has worked for media and film departments at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Miramax Films, and MTV Networks and is a published writer and photographer. In 2021, she got certified as an End of Life Doula through the University of Vermont, one of their largest enrollments to date.
Awards History
SXSW 2019 - "Faces of Austin" Award
Credits
Co-Producer - Trish Dalton
Cast - Francesca Arnoldy
Cast - Reverend Jane Roy
