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My mom taught me that everyone is born equal, to not be afraid to ask questions, that we are all the same underneath. I'm very sorry. He didnt really to much people. The Devil. I asked him which daughter he liked better, me "Joan" or "Carolyn" his other daughter. So then, when we had lunch with my brothers and my mom, I would put the headphones on her, and Id say, Lets pass the mic when were talking, just even to each other, not even to her. DAN COHEN: Yes, just the way we all love music, and when we get older, were going to still love music. Music was incredible. This is a rush transcript. I was actually born shortly after a long marriage that she had had and she was having a void in her life. Matt Munro singing walk away, born free, for the good times, all three take us back to my dads passing. Some are additionally enveloped in a soft, lipid wrapping. She was upset that day, gently I put on the headphones and turned on Diana Ross and the Supremes' "I Hear A Symphony." This is a picture of my mom and me taken about 7 years ago now. Everyone is good? AMY GOODMAN: And talk about how it taps into something. My mom was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's when my daughter was born. My mother was 89 when she had a massive stroke. Were joined by Dan Cohen, whos a social worker who thought of bringing in these headphones to the nursing home, and Michael Rossato-Bennett, who filmed all of this. And I vividly remember when it first captured my imagination. And so, then, one of the first people, if not the first person, that I saw was Henry. Contact Director Michael Rossato-Bennett : [email protected]. Ill be speaking this Friday, January 24th, at 1:00 p.m. at Dollys, the independent bookstore on Main Street here in Park City. She put me in touch with a professor (PhD) of music therapy in Lublin, Poland, Dr Krzysztof Stachyra. and all of a sudden he knew all the words and then the veil would come back down. But as people with dementia becomewhen I started this, people said, Dan, youre going to isolate people even more by putting headphones on them. And it turned out just the opposite happened: People became more social. One of the fondest memories I have is when Mom's former recreational therapist Martha, came to visit her while she was on hospice. & there were several who would sing right along, remembering the melody & virtually every lyric!". http://cedarvillage.org/join-us-for-alive-inside, http://www.anthemmemorycare.com/aliveinside, The Jacquelyn & Gregory Zehner Foundation. Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease and dementiamany of them alone in nursing homes. My brother and I worked with her for months to reconnect her to her life again. OK, now Ill follow your lead. Dan has spent most of his career helping individuals and organizations better leverage technology. Moving and groundbreaking. DENISE: Its Spanish. After spending a little time together and if asked, who am I? And, you know, that first day, I cried, literally, five times. AMY GOODMAN: What are the numbers were talking about? Without our funders and friends Alive Inside would never have been made! Alive Inside from Alive Inside LLC on Vimeo. But in those last years, she was very hard of hearing. And when I saw what was happening, I was like, the only way to tell this story is through film, because this is, you know, so amazing. And I was talking to her, and I was racing off for a radio interview, and I said, I have to go. She said, What, darling? I said, I have to leave. She said, What, darling? And Im so frustrated, so I saidand I realize Im holding my tape recorder and the headphones. And it was actually sort of frightening for me to actually enter this place that was their home, you know? 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After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. "Alive Inside" Scripts.com. Music is the way I communicate with my mom. and I would name everybody, ?Your granddaughter is doing this, and you can go. Documentary at the festival. Transcript The director of Texas's Department of Public safety said, "It was not the right decision," after he revealed police waited more than an hour to enter the school in Uvalde during the. And what we lovewhat music does, the way we connect with music is really very much emotional and visceral. But when we got introduced to the iPods and the family told me the things that she liked, it was amazing once we put the iPod on her. I keep this picture in my office; my Dad died of melanoma that spread to his brain. I booked to go for 2 weeks in October. We held him and we released him. Mark Demolar is an editor and filmmaker, based in Brooklyn, New York. We Jews believe that this is also where the part of human should resides, stretching further out of the body. [14] Steve Greene from Indiewire said that "Alive Inside provides a sense of idealism amid bleak situations. His camera reveals the . They raised 7 kids, she?s never complained. Download Audio This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. They are irreplaceable. You might be familiar with one of the central characters in the film, a 90-something Alzheimers patient named Henry Dryer. JOIN THE FOUNDATION HERE!We respect your privacy. 1 s01e02 - Fastest Man Alive Transcript detail My name is Barry Allen. And then, when he got his headphones and when he came aliveyou know, we talk about it in the film, but there is sort of a kinesthetic reaction that happens to you. After its premiere at Sundance Film Festival, BOND/360 did a service publicity deal for the theatrical distribution of the film. The condition that was so foreign to my parents has been an almost constant circumstance in my life. Full Interview: Frank Mugisha on New Anti-, Former Guantnamo Prisoners Ask Biden to Let Them Keep Art They Made to Escape Inhumane Conditions, Watch all Democracy Now! She would make me sing it over and over again at different speeds while she tried to sing along. I was surprised when he half opened his eyes and said " I love them both". As much as I tried in over two years, no matter what I tried, massage wouldnt work. Alive (Script) Lyrics. Shur is brother to Alive Inside filmmaker Michael-Rossato-Bennett. They are considered "spoilery" for those who did not watch the specific episode and can be read to catch up. This number doesnt even begin to include the many family members & friends affected by this disease. And I feel a band of love, dream. You are never to leave my side again. I felt the magic vibes and thought I?m ?on a good wicked'. DAN COHEN: So, 1.6 million, approximately, living in 16,000 nursing homes, plus another million people living in assisted living facilities. Transcripts for each episode of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. The film received mostly positive responses from critics. John: He was a WWII veteran with severe dementia. Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory is a 2014 American documentary film directed and produced by Michael Rossato-Bennett. I've been even blessed further being able to combine my clowning skills with music to share with other dementia patients at the facility. "[14] He says the director has a "sharp cinematic scalpel", revealing the "magic in the music". They would end the day with sing along Sound of Music. So I called up a local nursing home, and I said, I know music is already your number one recreational activity, but can we see if theres any added value if we were to totally personalize music for individuals? So I came in with my laptop and some iPods, and it was an instant and definitive hit with folks there. We do not accept funding from advertising, underwriting or government agencies. Gill: He was a nursing home resident that would become agitated at his loss of freedom and would not take his medication as prescribed. How old am I? I personally feel that the brain allows for all sorts of interactions with the outside world. AMY GOODMAN: Well, talk about what happens. Please do your part today. About the part of human brain, responsible for the music stimuli which doesn?t disintegrate during that horrible disease. I can't. I've forgotten so much. FADE IN: INT. That's how she raised me. People who were depressed now were feeling better. It was a sign of hope. And I thought, well, young people all have them, many adults, but a nursing home? DAN COHEN: Andwell, right now, our system is set up that if its a drug, regardless of what it is, regardless of the side effects, because we are really giving these folks antipsychotic medications to help calm them down, but theyre really not meant for this, and the side effects are so dramatic that the government is telling them, Please, all doctors, slow down on your use of these. And doctors in nursing homes, and also someone at home whose mom might have been behaving out of control, and the daughter says, Doc, give my mom something, please. So, its just our approach to, like, we need medications to help. I mean, Dan, for the people listening on radio who cant see, and just overall, talk about what happened to this woman who was laying in the bed. >> woman: how old am i? She lives in Poland. Alive Inside Synopsis: The documentary follows social worker Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, as he fights against a broken health-care system to demonstrate music's ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it. It just doesntits not reimbursable. ALIVE INSIDE marks Demolars first endeavor as a feature editor. (the point of connection is in the fontanelle, the place where a baby?s skull is softer). Help Them Remember! Even when she was going blind, you never heard my mother feel sorry for herself or anything like that. With more than five million Americans living with dementia or memory loss, Dan is hoping to greatly expand his program. Remember the Andrews Sisters?, AMY GOODMAN: And you have kids bringing in. It not onlytheyre not only just, you know, rocking out to the beat. The Bottom Line - A gloriously inspirational film documenting musics healing power in Alzheimer patients. She had to convince the doctors that the lump on my neck was not normal. As I walked back to the hospital room my Son came running out and said, ?Where have you been? My mom is a great singer! To learn more of our adventures together, go to. Those few minutes mean the world to me. This stirring documentary follows numerous visionaries fighting against a broken healthcare system, trying to demonstrate musics ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it. No, it's okay. It's as transformative as the music itself. All Michael Rossato-Bennett scripts | Michael Rossato-Bennett Scripts. So I?m just kinda playing around with these ideas, thinking that perhaps music allows for a higher, more spiritual connection to take place. Our Daily Digest brings Democracy Now! He came here, he wasn?t, like, dying. It has helped me to challenge people when I think they are wrong or to question if I don't understand. And I really hope that these memories will be kept safe for when we really need them late on. Where is Alive Inside streaming? After the therapy, Gill was depicted as being much happier, because as G. Allen Power, a geriatrician stated, "music creates spontaneity that you cannot create in an institution". I was her first grandchild. One million people in nursing home. Rob Nelson in his review for Variety said that "Michael Rossato-Bennett captures some amazingly transformative results in the treatment of dementia through music. Oh, god. I had to return back to the UK. I love this man with my whole heart and I share the pain of all those who are posting their stories. Nan Li is a Beijing native, he studied Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College and is working with Michael Rossoto-Bennett on several other films. Nell: She had severe dementia and her husband, Norman, had been her caregiver for ten years. live shows from Sundance Film Festival, Bedlam: Film Shows How Decades of Healthcare Underfunding Made Jails De Facto Mental Asylums, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License, Fighting in Sudan Persists Despite Extended Ceasefires as U.N. What was life like when You were a little girl? Every dollar makes a differencein fact, gets doubled! The clip began with video of him looking largely unresponsive to the outside world. Where's mom? "My sister Delia was diagnosed seven years ago with early onset Alzheimer?s. My mom's dementia advanced greatly and quickly after two brain bleeds last year. Stirring. "[8] He writes that the "over-the-top narration often sounds cloying and banal," but Nelson endorses the medical and historical context of the film. Could a pair of headphones change the lives of millions of Americans suffering from Alzheimers and dementia? Really helps share the power behind music and how it can help people who suffer from cognitive impairment. Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features. In the dialog that appears, select the language of the file you're uploading. suddenly - it was as if a broken machine got fixed. Regina K. Scully is an Academy Award-nominated executive producer, most recently for the 2013 powerful documentary called the Invisible War, a film about the epidemic rapes of women and men in the military. Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory is a 2014 American documentary film directed and produced by Michael Rossato-Bennett. Alive Inside - Trailer This Sundance Winning documentary film, directed by Michael Rossato-Bennett, started a movement. too seriously. Life Inside 2019-09-10 | Lester Holt spends two nights embedded inside the largest maximum security prison in America, the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola. Alive Inside subtitles. After the therapy, she is taped setting aside the walker she had been using for the entire duration of her stay at the nursing home and dancing. So, we will build our playlists and we will continue making memories around music. Upload captions and transcripts. What happened is, because she?s blind, she loves CNN, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, any progressive political whatever, my mother loves to listen to them and because she can?t hear well anymore, the TV would be turned up so loud that it would drive us all crazy so we went and got some wireless headphones and then she was sitting there with her wireless headphones one day and I had my iPod and so I thought, ?Well, we?ll connect them and see.? She?s a very strong woman, she raised 5 children, and raised me practically. My mom loved music. Scully also executive produced Miss Representation, a compelling documentary exposing the gender bias that still exists in our country based on the limited portrayals of women and young girls in our Media, Politics and Entertainment. Now, I have nothing against him, I used to really like the old Kris, but my mother started listening to this, and she sat there for about an hour and a half. She never gave up challenging the doctors who said, what do you want me to do mother? An editor for twenty years, some of Manuel Tsingaris recent projects include: The Storm that Swept Mexico, a documentary that aired on PBS in 2011, telling the story of the 1910 Mexican revolution and A Dream In Doubt, which follows a Sikh man's journey to find peace and justice after his brother is killed shortly after 9/11. The pace of the song is really quick and she had trouble catching all the lyrics, so for about 6 months or so every time I would see her she would ask me, ?What are the words to that ?could ya, could ya? And you must always stand up for yourself. The film follows a social worker named Dan Cohen, who is campaigning to bring iPods to nursing homes. And then she is a part of the conversation, because so often older peopleI mean, people are polite. It was he who told me about your film. He co-wrote the song Ascension (Dont Ever Wonder) with Maxwell for his debut album, Maxwells Urban Hang Suite.. And, you know, you see these people living just really such sad lives. One of these days Im going to drop and stay on the floor! I was a dancer in school so music was important and Dad and I shared a love of classical music. Each one consists of genetic materialeither DNA or RNAencapsulated in a protein pocket called a capsid. It has stolen so many opportunities for me to create new memories with him. But my mother learned how to do it. One day we brought a cd player to the rehab facility along with some of her favorite music. In nursing homeswere not talking about rat-infested, cockroach-crawling nursing homesthe very opposite. Grandma just tried to crawl out of bed!? They connect with that. She taught me to speak Spanish and makes really good food. In a world drowning in bad news about dementia'Alive Inside' is positively tonic. So, my daughter and I were talking about what we could get my mother for Christmas that would really make a difference and of course, after watching the movie, I thought, ?Why didn?t I do this before?? A lover of art, he is known for his work in music video and video installation. His experience on this project sparked what is now a deep desire to discover new perspectives through the art of documentary narrative. But I had awhen I was younger, I had like a lot of kind of bad experiences in hospitals. She took care of me. It truly was a magical day in the midst of this long, hard journey. Please do your part today. I love music and would love to see Grandma smile as she listened to some Lawrence Welk or polka music. Unfortunately my nephew had programmed my iPod with 5 Kris Kristopherson albums. It has opened a very small door for us to the man Granddad used to be. Today the film can be watched on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/aliveinside and on other services. AMY GOODMAN: And the drug companies dont make money. Hymns and Christmas carols bring a light back into her eyes. Itaal was also a founding member of the group Groove Collective. Her body is moving. We have found that she loves to hear music especially some of her favorites like Marc Antony and Bette Midler. Joy and life are resuscitated, and our cultural fears over aging are confronted. He had been applying music therapy and believed the therapy is what had kept her from long-term care in a facility. Text ALIVE to 55741. But I never stop, and I drop. Dan Cohen founded but is no longer at Music & Memory. Since its inception in 2007, Impact Partners has been involved in the financing of over 50 films, including: The Cove, which won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; The Garden, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2009; Hell and Back Again, which won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize and Cinematography Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2012; and How To Survive A Plague, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2013. When we cover the climate emergency, our reporting isnt sponsored by the oil, gas, coal or nuclear companies. We put the speaker in her wheelchair cupholder as we tour the halls of the nursing home where she lives. I swear to god I didn't do this. She came to life. Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music. I was so close to her that at night I would cry and my parents would have to call her and have me talk to her and she would say, ?OK, stop crying, go to sleep,? and I would ask her, ?What is that?? In addition to writing and recording, Shur has created an artist-development and production company. How do you mean, the Devil is inside you? Many of the subjects show deep emotional resonance to the music. and she would say, ?well you should just go to sleep.? Were also joined by Michael Rossato-Bennett, director and producer of Alive Inside: The Story of Music & Memory. I need you to make sure she's alright. Sometimes, you have to see it to believe it. When you see somebody like come to life, it really just completely does something to you. Get a knife and chop it out? AMY GOODMAN: You say in the film doctors can write out a prescription for a thousand dollars for antidepressants, but its hard to get $40 for a CD player. The film is amazing. Thats one of the things that touched me so much about this whole experience, is that for people with dementia, theyre really struggling with the outside world, and the stimulus is so overwhelming, and they dont have the ability to sort of discern whats happening. This stirring documentary follows social worker Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, as he fights against a broken healthcare system to demonstrate musics ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it. I never had a babysitter. DAN COHEN: So, the nursing homesbecause our society reduces every year the amount of money going to nursing home care, the nursing homes, filled with great staff, dedicated people, have to do the samegive the same level of service every year to this group of people. And if Im ever in a nursing home, would I have access to my favorite '60s music? But to end this email on a nice note (pardon the pun) - my Mom has 2 hourly sessions of music therapy a week now. AMY GOODMAN: And certainly, Dan, this goes beyond people with dementia or Alzheimers. DAN COHEN: Well, in 2006, I was listening to a journalist talking about how iPods are ubiquitous, theyre everywhere. A man with a simple idea discovers that songs embedded deep in memory can ease pain and awaken these fading minds. We rely on contributions from you, our viewers and listeners to do our work. My dad lived here and I work here. The documentary makers of Alive Inside posted video of Henry on YouTube in 2012. An affecting look at a growing therapeutic cause. Neurologist Oliver Sacks quotes the German philosopher Immanuel Kant stating that "music is the quickening art" to explain that Henry had been brought to life by the music being presented to him.[9]. Jeff had a moment of her knowing him, again and actually teasing him. To answer these questions and inspire action, we created The Alive Inside Foundation. Once you discover your loved one has Alzheimer's disease it becomes very apparent to you the lack of knowledge, research and assistance out there to get families through this heartbreaking transition. Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory, the Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary by Michael Rossato-Bennett that opens today in the U.S., soars on a single, inescapable note that for people suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia, iPods and personal playlists can make a transformative difference. So I would sing them to her, ?Could ya, would ya, ain?t ya gonna, if I asked you, would ya wanna, be my baby tonight?.
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