Director: Liz Cane Producers: Roberta Ahlquist, Bill
Cane, Liz Cane
Description:
An empathetic,
85-year-old yoga teacher teaches her older students in a
compassionate, mindful, and rebellious way. Rejecting her doctor's
diagnosis that she is getting old, Lolly uses yoga to heal herself
from crippling arthritis. She inspires her students to navigate the
aging process with empathy, grace, and wisdom
Biography:
Liz
Cane’s films have aired nationally
on PBS, won awards, and screened in festivals around the world. She
makes both narrative and documentary films that explore love, sex,
taboos, friendship, delusion, and death. Liz teaches filmmaking at
University of California, Irvine. When Lolly Font approached
retirement at the age of 84, Roberta Ahlquist, a long-time student of
Lolly’s, realized this unique woman’s legacy as a yoga teacher
ought to be captured on film. Roberta invited her daughter Liz to
direct while she helped produce.
Bill
Cane writes and produces films with
his daughter, Liz Cane. His work includes a documentary that defies
stereotypes around aging through the personal lens of his father’s
creative renaissance at the age of 95, “Eager for Your Kisses.”
Currently Bill and Liz are working on a script for a TV series about
the failure of governments to slow climate warming and the
devastating consequences.
