Five Sisters (working title) is an hour-long documentary produced by Good Hard Working People, LLC. The film paints a portrait of five sisters, ranging in age from their late 60s to mid 80s, during the aftermath of the first of the sisters’ husbands having passed away. It is a film about the “greatest generation”, about sisterhood, about aging, and about family values.
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The central character is Beth, at 68 the youngest, who is on a quest to learn from her older sisters how to deal with issues of transition and aging. We attend their annual get-together with this year’s theme of “facing old age”, tag along on a tour of their childhood hometown, visit their current living situations and witness their lively interactions among each other and with other family members. </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Moving and enlightening, </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Five Sisters </span><span style="font-style: normal;">is full of joy and grief and tackles a subject that is essential to all of us – how to live fully and gracefully and yet be realistic about getting older and eventually dying.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The subject of old age and death are universal – yet we do not speak of them often. </span>Five Sisters<span style="font-style: normal;"> will encourage the discussion of how to live and age well and thus bring comfort and inspiration not only to the elderly but also to the successive generations. </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" >The documentary is being shot on 24p Mini DV and will be mastered to Digi Beta for broadcast. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" >Five Sisters</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" > will include interviews with the sisters and their husbands and children, vérité</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" >footage of their time together, archival film and photographs.</span> </span></p>