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Original Film Title: A Butterfly Has Been Released
Director’s Name: Jason Zamer, Barry Koch
Writer’s Name: Jason Zamer, Barry Koch
Producer: Jason Zamer, Barry Koch, Jacob Ross
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming : United States
Language: English
Runtime: 36 minutes 33 seconds
Film Description:
Join a remarkable journey in “A Butterfly Has Been Released,” as hospice nurse Allyson spends her last 39 days, living and dying with brain cancer.
With unfiltered honesty, authenticity, and humor, Allyson invites her family, friends and hospice coworkers into her dying experience. As time runs short, her community gathers to celebrate her life with a “living funeral,” which Allyson hosts, and afterwards her natural, green burial.
Throughout, Allyson confronts her own mortality and continues to create meaning and legacy, as her death approaches and beyond.
Allyson’s final wish was that her story could be used to help and inspire others about the end-of-life. As Allyson says, “I’m not dead if I’m still talking,” and through “A Butterfly Has Been Released,” Allyson is most certainly still talking.
Whether you are dealing with a difficult diagnosis yourself, caring for loved ones, or thinking about the future, Allyson’s story will resonate with the power of living until the very end, on your own terms.