Films We Like presents OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE: A film by Ric Burns

 Films We Like presents OLIVER SACKS:  HIS OWN LIFE: A film by Ric Burns

Opening in cinemas, and virtual cinemas:

Ottawa, ByTowne Cinema, Oct 16, In-Cinema
Toronto, Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, Oct 22, Virtual + In-Cinema
Toronto, The Kingsway, Oct 30, In-Cinema
London, Ont, Hyland, Oct 23, Virtual + In-Cinema
Vancouver, Vancity, Oct 23, Virtual + In-Cinema
Victoria, The Vic, Oct 22, Virtual + Oct 23, In-Cinema

 "In nearly all of Oliver' pieces there comes that moment, that epiphany, that shock, when the reader realizes that Oliver was just as strange, and just as wonderful, and just as elusive as the person he was writing about. And there came the moment, too, when we his readers realized: so are we - so are we."  – David Remnick,, The New Yorker

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller and author (Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat), as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. Sacks was a fearless explorer of unknown mental worlds who helped redefine our understanding of the brain and mind, the diversity of human experience, and our shared humanity.

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 over five days, surrounded by family, friends, colleagues 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.

Director, Ric Burns

Ric Burns is a documentary filmmaker and writer, best known for his eight-part series New York: A Documentary Film. Burns has been writing, directing and producing historical documentaries for over 25 years, since his collaboration on the PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his brother Ken and co-wrote with Geoffrey Ward. His work has won numerous film and television awards including six Emmy awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, three Writers Guild of America Awards and the D.W. Griffith Award of the National Board of Review.

Films We Like

Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Carmine Street Guitars) Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent, and international films in Canada. Recent releases include White Rot, Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine, The Shock of the Future and Arab Blues.

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 Running time:  114 minutes

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Media Contact
Virginia Kelly
V Kelly & Associates
virginia@vkpr.ca