PAL - Region Free

A few years ago we interviewed several people who planned to donate their bodies to the Otago Medical School for students to dissect.  We asked them about their lives and their loves, their hopes, their fears, and of course their bodies.

The Otago Medical school is one of the last in the world whose students still do significant human dissection. The donors and the students gave us permission to follow them through this whole process.

This unexpectedly life affirming, sad, funny and above all human film is the result.

The emotional payoff at the end - when the students finally get to ‘meet’ their donors and watch the original donor interviews is as powerful as anything you will see.  For the first time on film, we have the chance to be a part of the amazing journey of the students, the donors and their families.

The academic version includes an extra disk of interviews with the students and donors, and the full timelapse of the dissection, plus a license to be able to use the material in teaching, show it to classes, hold in a medical school library etc.

The student 2-disk version, which includes the 44 and 80 minute versions of the film, comments from several other donors and students who weren't in the film, the full anatomy department memorial service, Professor Helen Nicholson's introduction to anatomy and history of body donation lecture, deleted scenes and other bits and pieces.