Laura
Green
Director / Producer
Laura Green is an award-winning documentary director and editor. She is currently directing Matter of Mind, a series about neurodegenerative disease broadcasting on PBS's Independent Lens. Her editing work has screened at festivals such as Tribeca and Hot Docs. She is an associate professor at San Francisco State University.
Anna
Moot-Levin
Director / Producer
Anna Moot-Levin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producer, and editor with a passion for stories about health and healthcare. Her debut documentary, The Providers, aired on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2019. She is currently directing Matter of Mind, a documentary series about people living with neurodegenerative disease.
Director's Statement
As filmmakers we gravitate towards telling stories about health and medicine, work where we often spend time with film participants experiencing profound loss. When we learned about Camp Widow, we were struck both by the powerful model the camp offered for engaging with grief in a community-centered and therapeutic way, and by widowhood as an unaddressed public health crisis.
There are currently 15 million widowed people in the US, and losing a partner is the most stressful life experience that most of us will endure. Partner loss is an experience that is typically not only traumatic, but also profoundly isolating in a culture uncomfortable with death and processing loss. In telling this story of people grappling with grief honestly, publicly and in community, we wanted to not only bring attention to the experience of partner loss, but to also open up space as a culture and society for dialogue around the losses of loved ones we will all experience.