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This screening has reached its registration capacity.

Don’t miss the Q&A…

After you register for this screening, be sure to register for the follow-up event, Members-Only Q&A: Dick Johnson Is Dead, featuring a conversation with writer/director/producer Kirsten Johnson. (Friday, October 16 – 3:00 pm PT)

Film Independent Members, you and a guest are invited to watch Dick Johnson Is Dead in our Film Independent Presents Online Screening Room, powered by Vision Media.

A lifetime of making documentaries has convinced award-winning filmmaker Kirsten Johnson of the power of the real. But now she’s ready to use every escapist movie-making trick in the book – staging inventive and fantastical ways for her 86-year-old psychiatrist father to die while hoping that cinema might help her bend time, laugh at pain and keep her father alive forever. The darkly funny and wildly imaginative Dick Johnson Is Dead is a love letter from a daughter to a father, deftly blending fact and fiction to create a celebratory exploration of how movies give us the tools to grapple with life’s profundity.

Dick Johnson Is Dead was filmed, produced and directed by Kirsten Johnson, produced by Katy Chevigny and Marilyn Ness, co-produced by Maureen A. Ryan and executive produced by Megan Ellison.

 
2020, 89 minutes, color | Written by Nels Bangerter, Kirsten Johnson | Directed by Kirsten Johnson | Produced by Kirsten Johnson, Katy Chevigny, Marilyn Ness | Co-produced by Maureen A. Ryan | Executive produced by Megan Ellison

Registration Information

All Film Independent Members can register for this online screening starting at 1:00 pm on Thursday, September 24. | Registration is free; one registration per Membership. | Proof of Member status is required to complete registration.

Arts Circle and Film Lover Members are guaranteed access to this event; email membership@filmindependent.org for more information.

How to Watch

On the first day of screening availability, registered Members (and guests, when applicable) will be emailed a secure link by our partner Vision Media to watch this title in the Film Independent Presents Online Screening Room.

Online Screening Policies

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