Watch the Audience FEEDBACK of the Short Doc “THIS DEWDROP WORLD”

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THIS DEWDROP WORLD is an award winning short documentary film. The film won Best Film at the FEEDBACK Film Festival.

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THIS DEWDROP WORLD, 35min, Documentary/Biography, USA

Directed by Elizabeth Thompson

Shocked by her mother’s ALS diagnosis, Elizabeth (the filmmaker) searches for ways to help her adjust. But in her struggle to come to terms with her mother’s unrelenting decline, Elizabeth senses a larger story that mirrors her private one.

“This Dewdrop World” is a lyrical essay documentary that interweaves two unfolding stories – a dying mother, an unraveling planet — illuminating the poetic resonance between the fleeting, dewdrop nature of a single life and a parallel, though largely unseen, story of planetary loss.

When Peg, the filmmaker’s mother, is diagnosed with a disease related to Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), she breathes a sigh of relief that it’s…