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OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE
by Ric Burns
SYNOPSIS
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well as nearly two dozen interviews with close friends, family members, colleagues and patients, and archival material from every point in his life, this film is the story of a beloved doctor and writer who redefined our understanding of the brain and mind.
DETAILS
114 mins
2019
USA
English
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CREDITS
Directed by Ric Burns
Produced by Leigh Howell, Bonnie Lafave, Kathryn Clinard
Executive Producer for Vulcan Productions: Paul G. Allen
Executive Producer for Vulcan Productions: Carole Tomko, Rocky Collins
Executive Producer for American Masters Pictures: Michael Kantor
Executive Producer for The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Doron Weber
Executive Producer for Motto Pictures: Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements
Executive Producer for Steeplechase Films: Arthur G. Altschul Jr., Margaret Munzer Loeb, Nion Mcevoy,
Regina K. Scully, Geralyn White Dreyfous
Executive Producer for HHMI Tangled Bank Studios: David Guy Elisco, Sean B. Carroll
Executive Producer for ITVS: Sally Jo Fifer
Executive Producer for Passion Pictures: John Battsek, Nicole Stott
Executive Producer for Sandbox Films: Greg Boustead
Edited by Li-Shin Yu, Tom Patterson with Chih Hsuan Liang
Director of Photography: Buddy Squires, A.S.C.
Music Composed, Orchestrated, and Performed by Brian Keane
Senior Creative Consultants: Kate Edgar, Bill Hayes
