| Perfect Strangers (69 min) USA |
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Director/Producer: Jan Krawitz
Description:
Perfect Strangers tells the story of two unique and engaging characters. One is Ellie, who embarks on an unpredictable journey of twists and turns, determined to give away one of her kidneys. Five hundred miles away, Kathy endures nightly dialysis and loses hope of receiving a transplant until Ellie reads her profile on an online website. Both women face unexpected challenges as their parallel stories unfold over the course of four years. Perfect Strangers raises questions about what motivates an individual towards an extreme act of compassion. Why are we unnerved by the idea of such an extreme gift?
Biography:
Jan Krawitz has been independently producing documentary films for thirty-five years. Her work has been exhibited at film festivals in the United States and abroad, including Sundance, the New York Film Festival, Nyon, Edinburgh, AFI/Silverdocs, London, Sydney, Full Frame, South by Southwest and the Flaherty Film Seminar. Her last film, Big Enough, was broadcast on the national PBS series POV and internationally in eighteen countries. Her short documentaries, Mirror Mirror, Drive-in Blues and In Harm's Way were also shown on national PBS. Krawitz's short film Styx is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. She has had one-woman retrospectives of her films at many venues including the Portland Art Museum, Hood Museum of Art, Rice Media Center, the Austin Film Society, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. She was awarded an artist's residency at Yaddo for spring 2011. Krawitz is currently the director of the MFA program in documentary film and video in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University.
Contact Information:
e: krawitz@stanford.edu
w: www.perfectstrangersmovie.com
