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PRESS & AWARDS
Daughter of Suicide Wins:
23th
Annual National Council on Family Relations Media Awards Competition,
2001
First Place: Mental Health, Stress, Transition, & Crisis Management
Category
National
Mental Health Association Media Award, June 2001
National Television: Educational or Pubic Service Programming
Category
Cine
Golden Eagle, Fall 2000
Public Health Category
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of Suicide Review"
Variety July 10, 2000
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Mind
Dr. Fred Goodwin interviews Dempsey Rice
May 14, 2000, click
here to listen
he Atlanta
Film and Video Festival
Interview with Dempsey Rice
May 14, 2000
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from Suicide's Survivors: Woman shares pain, reaches out with
film"
The Fairfax Journal May 12, 2000
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Creative is a Risk"
Women & Creativity, Number 33, She's Got It Together.Com
 ANTA BARBARA
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL MARCH 3 AND 5 "DAUGHTER OF SUICIDE"
WORLD PREMIERE A SMASHING SUCCESS!
The highly anticipated world premiere of "Daughter of Suicide"
took place at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
on March 3rd and 5th 2000. Audience and press reaction was
overwhelmingly supportive of "Daughter of Suicide" and filmmaker
Dempsey Rice.
aughter
of Suicide is an insightful, emotionally charged documentary
with a powerful message about suicide. After watching Daughter
of Suicide, my girlfriend and I were choked up for hours.
Not even a glass of water could wash down the emotional lump
in my throat."
- Scott Toporov, Entertainment Reporter and Public Service
Director Fox 11 Central Coat News; Santa Barbara, California
aughter
of Suicide documents a seemingly archetypal family in which
one person dies by suicide, but all pay the price. Excellently
and courageously made by first time producer, director and
writer Dempsey Rice, Daughter of Suicide delves unflinchingly
into the heart and soul of suicide to show, in very real terms,
the cost of our society's tendency to keep mental instability
behind closed doors. Everyone in America should see this picture."
- Russ Spencer, IFILM.net
aughter of
suicide is a profound, insightful and real look into depression,
mental illness and suicide. This is an important film that
a wide audience needs to see. I'm thrilled that it had its
world premiere here, in Santa Barbara. I love it, it's amazing!
- Chris Gilmer, Director of Programming Santa Barbara International
Film Festival
 or documentary
filmmakers, the camera's innocuous presence allows for an
intimacy that often difficult to achieve with a film camera
and crew. Daughter of Suicide is a good example. Dempsey Rice
worked with cinematographer Jim Denault, whose previous projects
include Michael Almereyda'sTrance, Another Girl, Another Planet,
and Nadja, as well as Hal Hartley's The Book of Life. "Daughter
of Suicide is a very intimate film," explains Rice. "I was
going into situations in which people had experienced very
intense and painful things, and it just wasn't possible to
bring in a large crew. Since we were shooting digital, though,
Jim and I could do it alone, and his personality worked well,
making it very easy to get the intimacy we needed."
From the article "The Art & Craft of Shooting DV: A Cinematographer's
Perspective" by Holly Willis.
The Independent Film & Video Monthly magazine
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