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The Last Generation to Die is a feature film featuring Oscar-nominated David Strathairn and Tony Award winning Lily Rabe, adapted from a proof-of-concept short film.
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Director's Note
This film is a love letter to my own parents. Through the course of making the short film and adapting the feature script, my father passed away. Everything about this project became so much more real for me. I'm also watching my mother deteriorate with aging and try to spend as much time with her as possible - and I know I'm far from alone in this struggle. I'm essentially living the world of the main character as I travel between NYC and our farm in the Midwest. So while the shell of this movie is an elevated science fiction film dealing with existential questions about life and death on a grand scale, at its heart, it is an intimate story about a daughter and her father, loss, and the depths of love and choice.
As a longevity advocate, I believe in promoting the science and ideas behind longer, healthier lives. As a filmmaker, I also believe in the power of stories and art to move people. I want to combine the two to make something that both works as a moving film, but also awakens people to the good ideas and reasons for healthy longevity.
My love for science also shines through in this project. Since I was little, I've always read science books and wondered about how the natural world works. I remember performing small experiments with our junior science lab kit. As much as it is about rigor, the best science is often creative. Science is one of the most potent aspects of humanity, as it yields what was once thought of as magic to previous generations while unlocking more mysteries of our world. In parallel with the magic of stories, the power is truly transforming.