Death is not something that people generally enjoy talking about. No one even likes to think about it. But for some people, the idea of death is something that shouldn’t be avoided in conversation or feared at all. Death can almost be celebrated. That’s the idea behind the new documentary that will soon hit Netflix.
In the new trailer for “End Game,” viewers get the chance to learn about the end-of-life support system that exists to help people. Hospice professionals, doctors, nurses, and others are shown as they help people deal with what comes at the end. What could be a depressing and horribly sad documentary is clearly empowering and triumphant, and the trailer shows that perfectly.
Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, who both won Best Documentary for the 1989 film, “Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt,” created this new documentary short that had its world premiere earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
“End Game” is one of several documentary shorts that Netflix has already planned for 2018. Late last year, Lisa Nishimura, VP of Original Documentary Programming said, “We are proud to showcase stories from around the globe, told by filmmakers who help us see the world from unique and important new vantage points. This impressive and diverse slate of documentary shorts illustrates how filmmakers, both acclaimed and emerging, can deftly transport us into some of the most transcendent, enriching, raw and unexpected moments in life.”
Here’s the official synopsis for “End Game” from Netflix:
Directed by Academy Award winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, End Game is an intimate vérité style documentary short that follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death — and dedicated to changing our thinking about both.