"The Last Ecstatic Days" with Alex Ebert & director Scott Kirschenbaum - Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 8:00 PM EDT | Kinema
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The Last Ecstatic Days

Hosted by Alex Ebert

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Apr 21, 8:00 PM EDT

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$10.00 per person

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"The Last Ecstatic Days" with Alex Ebert & director Scott Kirschenbaum

Please join at 7.45pm ET for an introduction to the film by Alex Ebert and Scott Kirschenbaum and stay on after the film for a post-screening discussion.

  • Alex Ebert is a Grammy-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Tony nominated singer, songwriter and composer. He was the lead singer of the popular folk-rock band Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros. Additionally, he scored the Oscar-winning Disney animated short Feast. Alex Ebert wrote the theme song for "The Last Ecstatic Days." Follow him on Instagram.

  • Scott L. Kirschenbaum is the director of "The Last Ecstaic Days." His films include the Alzheimer’s documentary You’re Looking At Me Like I Live Here And I Don’t, which aired on PBS’ Emmy award-winning program Independent Lens, and serves as a teaching tool for nonprofits, universities, public libraries and conferences; the speaker series A Soapbox in Haiti, which was featured on ABC World News, premiered on Haitian television stations on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and is taught in Haitian studies programs; the birth documentary These Are My Hours, which was called “the most cinematic birth documentary ever” by No Film School and has been distributed and taught in birth courses worldwide; Elementary Cool, about a young Sudanese refugee girl’s first day at an American elementary school, which premiered nationally at Playworks’ PlayOnConference; and Jumor: A Journey through Jewish Humor, a documentary about lovely (and curmudgeonly) old Jews.

Event Participants

Alex Ebert

Grammy winning musician

Scott Kirschenbaum

Director, The Last Ecstatic Days

About the film

Ethan Sisser, a young man with terminal brain cancer, sits alone in his hospital room. When he starts livestreaming his death journey on social media, thousands of people around the world join to celebrate his courage. Still, Ethan envisions more – to teach the world how to die without fear. To do that, he needs to film his death. Honoring Ethan's wish, his doctor Aditi Sethi transports him to an idyllic house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. What unfolds next is a story rarely glimpsed: how a community of strangers helps a young man die with grace. A sensory immersion into leaving the body, “The Last Ecstatic Days” reveals a man who will not let us forget him – even after he’s taken his final breath. To support the film's impact campaign, please visit: https://givebutter.com/thelastecstaticdays

Genre

Documentary

Runtime

1h 13m

Released

2024

Director

Scott Kirschenbaum

Producer

Scott Kirschenbaum, Prerana Thakurdesai, Hannah Fowler, Alex Harvey, Landon Maloney, Lisa Deluc

Executive Producer

David Seidler, Gail Harris, Jessica Zitter, Tommy Pallotta

Writer

Ethan Sisser

Cast

Ethan Sisser, Aditi Sethi, Linda Rothman, Greg Lathrop, Brent Skidmore

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