December 6, 2020
Laura’s Choice Feature Documentary
Three years in the making by Sam Lara & Cathy Henkel, Laura’s Choice Feature Documentary about their grandmother/ mother Laura Henkel’s life and death (at Pegasos) received a standing ovation at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival in December 2020.
The film will premiere in Melbourne on 28 February 2001.
Laura’s Choice Feature Documentary will screen on ABC TV in Australia on 17 & 18 March 2001.
Laura is eccentric, outspoken, feisty and 90 years old. She has decided she wants to end her life on her own terms, and she asks her daughter Cathy and granddaughter Sam, both filmmakers, to film this journey. She wants to share her experience to make some noise about elderly people’s right to die.
Laura’s Choice will expose and explore complex and often taboo questions as three generations of women travel into uncharted territory and navigate a radical approach to dying.
The humour throughout is unexpected and charming, the force of Laura is undeniable, and the existential questions this film raises will spark passionate discussion, long after the credits roll.
We guarantee there won’t be a dry eye in the house by the end of this extraordinary, personal film.
News Flash: Laura’s Choice won the Documentary Innovation Award at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival
Cathy Henkel & Sam Lara with their Award
Filming at Pegasos Swiss Association, Switzerland on 19 December 2019
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