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  Griefwalker
 
   There are certainly   bigger, more   commercial films on the   roster for Montreal's   World Film Festival but   there's unlikely to be any    as important as   Griefwalker". - THE GLOBE AND    MAIL
 
 - Montreal World Film   Festival
 - Atlantic Film Festival
 

In his daytime job as leader of a palliative care counseling team at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, Stephen Jenkinson has been at the death bed of well over a thousand people. What

he sees over and over, he says, is "a wretched anxiety and an existential terror" even when

there is no pain. Jenkinson, a Harvard Divinity graduate, social worker, sculptor, author, blues musician and storyteller, has now made it his life's mission to change the way we die - to turn

the act of dying from denial and resistance into a natural part of life.

 

Directed and Written by: Tim Wilson

Producer: Annette Clarke

Editor: Hannele Halm

Cinematography: Tim Wilson

Music: Nance Ackerman, Jamie Alexander Alcorn

Executive Producer: Kent Martin

 

Watch Film: http://www.nfb.ca/film/griefwalker

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