“Perfect Strangers is a stunning piece about love in ways that I’ve never imagined. Jan Krawitz’s documentary plays like a feature film. Her characters jump off the screen into your hearts. Her storytelling simplicity is inundated with complex issues of some of life’s most challenging issues. Remarkable film, remarkable filmmaker.” ~ Allan Holzmanm - ACE Emmy and Peabody Award Winning Director/Editor Thanks again for gracing us with your presence. Fascinating Q&A discussion. Best documentary film I have seen this year! ~ Derek Horne - Director of Programming, Santa Fe Independent Film Festival Winner of the audience award for Best Documentary at both the SLOIFF and Sepastopol Documentary Film Festival. Book signing of the book following the film... Lost in Transplantation: Memoir of an Unconventional Organ Donor by Eldonna Edwards Reviews of the book: Anne Lamott meets Nora Ephron in this entertaining memoir of massage therapist and single mother Ellies mission to donate a kidney to an ailing stranger. What starts out as a single act of compassion turns into a four-year struggle peppered with a plethora of bureaucratic and personal obstacles and an unexpected conclusion. Written with self-effacing humor and warm authenticity,Lost in Transplantation seeks to touch that place in each of us that hopes to find meaning and purpose in our overlapping lives. Told with humor and self-reflection, this inspirational memoir of courage and compassion is interwoven with anecdotal stories that help the reader identify what kind of person commits the selfless act of organ donation. Ellie,a self-described devout agnostic, is kind but often irreverent. She is generous, but she is no saint. Ultimately, becoming a kidney donor has given her a renewed sense of purpose and fulfillment. Lost in Transplantation asserts that we are all capable of altering a human beings life for the better, including our own. ~~~~~~~ Beautifully rendered story of triumphant generosity Part memoir, part philosophy, part how-to guide for the altruistic organ donor -- its an unconventional read by an unconventional woman. Ellies story is compelling and heartfelt -- and her quirky humor, pink-tipped pigtails and transparent love light up every page. I read it in two sittings and emerged feeling cleansed, inspired and grateful. Ellie describes herself as agnostic, but I couldnt help hearing the words of Jesus at the Last Supper: This is my body, given for you.... ~~Kathleen Adams, Author & Founder/Director of Center for Journal Therapy Beautifully written...hugely compelling page-turner. Edwards skillfully weaves a tale proving that fact is often stranger than fiction. Again and again Edwards skill as a writer demonstrates what a gifted wordsmith can do with a nearly-unbelievable series of real life events. She is imminently vulnerable and refreshingly relatable, which makes her story that much more readable--and the be the change that Edwards was after, may very well be what happens to the reader after finishing her book. Tom Franciskovich, Publisher; SLOLIFE Magazine
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