A Story of Healing

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A Story of Healing
Directed byDonna Dewey
StarringDonna Dewey
Production
company
Dewey-Obenchain Films
Distributed by Interplast
Release date
1997
Running time
28 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

A Story of Healing is a short documentary film in which Donna Dewey follows a team of five nurses, four anesthesiologists, and three plastic surgeons from Interplast in the United States for two weeks of volunteer work in the Mekong delta of Vietnam. The film shows not only how this changes the lives of the 110 patients who undergo surgery, but also the lives of the volunteers themselves. The epilogue, which runs after the credits, follows-up on two patients helped by Interplast, 16 months after their surgery.

In 1998, "A Story of Healing" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). [1] In 2007, it became the first Oscar-winning film to be licensed under a Creative Commons license when it was opened under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License. [2]

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References

  1. "The 70th Academy Awards: 1998". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  2. “A Story of Healing” Becomes First Academy Award Winning Film Released Under A Creative Commons License on creativecommons.org by mike (April 18, 2007)