It’s always the films about death which end up being the most life-affirming, isn’t it? Vanessa Gould’s "Obit" follows a group of unsung reporters who work the obituary column at The New York Times. Frequently given only a couple hours' notice before their columns must go to press, these men and women race against the clock to capture the entirety of human lives within the span of a few hundred ... more >
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Tribeca Festival, a sense for nostalgia and curiosity in “Obit”
On the sausage-making art of writing an obit
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Directed by Vanessa Gould