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- I'm Not Dead Yet
2008 – 70 mins Director: Elizabeth Stopford Producer: John Battsek A Passion Pictures Production in Association with White Rabbit Films for the BBC. Winner: Grierson - Best Newcomer, 2009 A film about the inheritance of a Gothic home, and a family's unspoken past. Ruth, seventy-eight, promises her beloved estate to one of her twin daughters, with whom she has lived for the past thirty-five years. As tensions begin to mount over the handover, Ruth flees to France, into the arms of her other, estranged twin daughter. Ruth's granddaughter, Elizabeth, begins documenting the struggle over the family home, unaware of the dark secrets that lie within its walls. Illustrated by a lifetime of home movie footage, I’M NOT DEAD YET is unique and personal. Ruth's turbulent journey sees the past erupt into the present, and the unraveling of a family consumed by the legacy of forty years of silence and denial. The film premiered at the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2008. http://www.elizabethstopford.com/imnotdeadyet/ “I’m Not Dead Yet is a very brave film. I’m not sure what qualties are required to make a film that is at once cold-eyed and compassionate about your own family, but Elizabeth possesses them in abundance. It is a very beautiful film”. BBC Storyville commissioner, Nick Fraser “[Stopford] is acutely sensitive to the subject…simply doing her best not to tell the story but to stand back and let the story tell itself". Amy Raphael, The Independent
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