DYING TO LIVE Free-To-Air premiere on SBS
Feature documentary DYING TO LIVE has its free-to-air premiere on Wednesday...
Feature documentary DYING TO LIVE has its free-to-air premiere on Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 8:35pm AWST on SBS. It will be available to stream on SBS on Demand for two weeks following the broadcast.
DYING TO LIVE follows six Australians awaiting organ donations. Through their intensely moving stories, the documentary creates a platform for organ donation discussions.
Aquarius Productions is hosting an online Facebook event featuring cast and crew Q&As during and following the SBS broadcast.
DYING TO LIVE Social Impact
DYING TO LIVE had its world premiere at Sydney Film Festival 2018, where it was nominated for the Documentary Australia Foundation Award, and has screened at film festivals around Australia including Melbourne International Film Festival and CinefestOZ.
Aquarius Productions has spearheaded a social impact campaign around the documentary to raise awareness and motivate the community to make a donation decision.
They have collaborated with healthcare, government and philanthropic organisations to spread the message, as well as coordinating special community screenings of the feature-length cut of DYING TO LIVE at cinemas across the country through Demand.Film.
“It’s been such a fascinating journey taking this important cause-based film to the masses,” said Producer/Director Richard Todd.
“With a combination of screen agencies’ support, as well as Goodpitch and its philanthropists, this feature-length documentary is having a massive impact!
“DYING TO LIVE has helped motivate people to register as an organ donor and initiate the important conversation regarding the ‘what ifs’ should anyone pass in the family.”
Can you help? Register as a donor today, #HaveTheChat, spread the word, host a screening of DYING TO LIVE, and #DonateLife!
Find Out More
Visit the Official DYING TO LIVE website and follow them on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to stay up to date on the campaign.
Official Website: www.dyingtolive.com.au
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/558096437989564/
Register as a donor: donatelife.gov.au/register-donor-today
Host A Screening
Aquarius Productions encourages enthusiastic audiences, leading corporates, brands, schools and universities, sport and recreation groups, faith leaders, not-for-profits, healthcare providers, clinicians, and individuals who care about this issue to get involved by hosting a screening of DYING TO LIVE.
The 90-minute movie version features two additional storylines:
- Henry, an almost blind Bardi man living with his wife, Barbara, on country in the Kimberly as he awaits a sight-saving corneal transplant.
- Indonesian-born Tony from Brisbane, who waits anxiously with his partner, Peter, to find out if he’ll receive the transplant that will save him from liver cancer.
Find out more at au.demand.film/dying-to-live
About Aquarius Productions
Aquarius Productions is an award-winning Western Australian company based in Margaret River.
They produce provocative factual programming, specialising in character-driven social issues and conservation documentaries that have a positive impact on people, society and the environment.
The company’s director Richard Todd is attracted to stories that require a very close and personal relationship with a central character. As a director and camera-man he has a passion for being ‘let in’ to complex and difficult to film situations in a pursuit to reveal story lines closer to the bone.
Their credits include:
- feature documentaries DYING TO LIVE and FRACKMAN
- micro-documentary series STORM SURFERS 2, and
- observational documentary GOD MADE THEM BLIND, winner of Best Documentary at Sun Valley Film Festival.