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The Oldest Person in the World: “I do wake up every day thankful to be alive and feeling very, very lucky, which is a great kind of worldview to have.”
In this vHopeful Conversation, I was delighted to speak with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green about his tender, funny, and profoundly moving new documentary, The Oldest Person in the World. Over the course of a decade, Sam traveled from Brooklyn to Italy, Jamaica, Japan, France, and beyond in pursuit of the ever-changing title, only to discover that the film was less about a secret to longevity than about time, chance, love, family, grief, memory, mortality, and the remarkable strangeness of being alive. We discussed the women who have held the record, the vital role of supportive…
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