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Making Every Moment Count

Dr Leora Kuttner, an award-winning filmmaker and an international expert in pediatric pain management, brings us this groundbreaking and comprehensive look at the emerging field of pediatric palliative care. At the film's heart are five remarkable young people who speak with profound clarity and wisdom about being alive and their approach to death. Layering their stories with interviews, the film is a unique portrait of how families and professionals can come together during a highly emotional time to share in decision making, address fears of death and provide hope. Dr Kuttner's films have been recognized by the Association for the …
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Dr Leora Kuttner, an award-winning filmmaker and an international expert in pediatric pain management, brings us this groundbreaking and comprehensive look at the emerging field of pediatric palliative care.

At the film's heart are five remarkable young people who speak with profound clarity and wisdom about being alive and their approach to death. Layering their stories with interviews, the film is a unique portrait of how families and professionals can come together during a highly emotional time to share in decision making, address fears of death and provide hope.

Dr Kuttner's films have been recognized by the Association for the Care of Children's Health, the Health Sciences Communications Association, and the National Council on Family Relations.

Health and Medicine Psychology and Psychiatry Families Children and Youth All subjects
  • director
    Leora Kuttner
  • producer
    Lori Roth
    George Johnson
  • writer
    Lori Roth
    Leora Kuttner
  • executive producer
    Lori Roth
    Leora Kuttner
    Rina Fraticelli
  • story editor
    Dennis Heaton
  • cinematographer
    Pieter Stathis
  • sound mixer
    Scott Aitken
  • sound recordist
    Scott Aitken
  • editor
    George Johnson
  • 1st assistant camera
    Rod Frew
  • additional photography
    Alan Kohl
  • additional sound recording
    Tod Van Dyk
  • assistant editor
    Tony Dean Smith
  • online editor
    Sevé Schelenz
  • video production house
    Post Digital Works
  • composer
    Robert Smart
  • audio engineer
    Craig Zarazun
  • audio production house
    Wave Productions
  • legal
    Juliet Smith

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Ages 16 to 17
School subjects
Family Studies/Home Economics - Aging/Death and Dying
Generate a class discussion around the topic of death, in terms of the added feelings of sadness and loss when the person who dies is a child. Comment on the need for greater compassionate care as well as medical care. Make students aware of the meanings of hospice care and palliative care. Discuss the changes in the family dynamic when a child is chronically ill and/or dying. How are siblings most often affected?

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