Cinema that ignites conversations about mortality and meaning.
Original Screenplays
A Ghost Story (2017, Written by David Lowery) - supernatural depiction of a man’s existence as a ghost following death
Beetlejuice (1998, Screenplay by Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren) - fantasy-comedy depiction of ghosts in action in the living world
Coco (2017, Screenplay by Adrian Molina, Matthew Aldrich) - Pixar’s death-positive portrayal of family, grief, and the afterlife
Defending Your Life (1991, Written by Albert Brooks) - romcom in purgatory-like setting
Enter the Void (2009, Written by Gasper Noé, Lucile Hadžihalilović) - art house film loosely based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead follows a post-mortem out-of-body journey
In the Heights (2021 film adaptation, based on musical and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes, respectively) - Abuela Claudia’s body succumbs to the heat and stress on Earth and she is welcomed to a colorful afterlife
Soul (2020, Written by Pete Docter, Mike Jones, Kemp Powers) - sublime contemplative after-death journey from Pixar
Adapted Screenplays
Big Fish (2003, Screenplay by John August)
Cloud Atlas (2012, Screenplay by Lana and Lily Wachowski and Tom Tykwer)
The Lord of the Rings (Film Series) (2001, Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens, Peter Jackson) (2002, Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair) (2003, Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens, Peter Jackson)
What Dreams May Come (1998, Screenplay by Ronald Bass)
Documentaries
Gates of Heaven (1978, Produced, Directed and Edited by Errol Morris)
Surviving Death (2021, Produced, Directed by Ricki Stern)