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Ari's Theme
Ari's Theme
Ari's Theme
Ari's Theme

Ari's Theme

$375.00

 

    • Directed by: Nathan Drillot, Jeff Petry 
    • Released: 2025 (educational)
    • Year of Production: 2024
Running Time: 99 min
Language: English
Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions
Subjects:  Fine Arts, Music, Accessibility 
      
       

         

Childhood memories inspire a composer with a terminal illness to create a deeply personal musical work, capturing cherished moments before time runs out.

           

Official Selection at the 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival, 2024 Newport Beach Film Festival and the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival

       
" The scenes of Ari interacting with his collaborators have a surprising emotional heft. Slade and Winkler show enormous respect for this struggling musician and immense empathy for his circumstances as well as an uncanny ability to translate Ari’s complicated ideas to music that can be read and played by other musicians and which, more important, brings Ari immense pleasure. Listen to them to talk to each other in short musical phrases and rhythms and you can grasp the uniqueness of their connection. " - POV
      
         
        
About the filmmakers
            

Nathan Drillot was born on the 28th June 1984 at home in the woods of Tennessee. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1990 where he lived until 1995, at which time he moved to the small coastal town of Camden Maine. He attended the Riley School before being accepted to The Putney School in Putney, Vermont. He graduated from the Maine Photographic Workshops (Rockport College) in 2004 and then left for Vancouver B.C. were he currently resides.

     

Jeff Petry was born and raised in rural Manitoba. After completing a pilot’s licence he traveled to cooking school in Austria, then on to Vancouver to work as a photographer until co-founding Salazar Film, a commercial and documentary production company based in Vancouver, B.C. He has co-directed, written and produced under the name SALAZAR since 2010.

          

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