Director(s)
Dawn Westlake
Starring
Donald G. Westlake
Language(s)
English
Released
January 01, 2011
Genre
Short Films, Documentary
Run Time
7 minutes
Rating
PG
Description
Throughout the 20 Century, and now into the 21st, wars have been waged all over the
globe under the banner proclamation that conflict ultimately leads to world peace. A Life of Death presents the cost of this irony by poetically answering the question: What is the price of lasting peace?
* DC Independent Film Festival, Washington, DC, March 2004, GRAND JURY PRIZE
* Iowa City International Documentary Festival, Iowa City, IA, April 2004, SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
* Artivist Film Festival, The Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, April 2004, SPIRIT AWARD: BEST SHORT FILM
* Moondance Film Festival, Boulder, CO, May 2004, SPIRIT OF MOONDANCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
* Home/Picture Start Film Festival, New York City, NY, June 2004, HONORABLE MENTION
* Fano International Film Festival, Fano, Italy, October 2004, SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
* Lenola Film Festival, Lenola, Italy, May 2006, BEST FILM SCORE & THIRD PLACE FILM
dawnwestlake
September 24th 2011
"A Life of Death" plays in its 116th festival this week, 9/24-30/2011: DOCartoon in Pietrasanta, Italy...with "Chico & Rita", an animated doc by Oscar winner Fernando Trueba ("Belle Epoque"). Check out the catalog: http://issuu.com/claudianeri65/docs/docartoon_web/1 ("A Life of Death" is on pg 21...Trueba's film on pg 9.)