DP/30: Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, documentarian Chiemi Karasawa

Elaine Stritch told her own story, on stage and in a version filmed for HBO, with the acclaimed, "At Liberty." But the story of a career is not the full story of a life. Chiemi Karasawa delivers that with her new documentary.... the passion for the work, the vulnerability of age, the incredible life force. Chiemi spoke to David Poland about the film, from deciding to make it to getting Stritch to agree to actually making a doc about a person in their late 80s.
Shot in Los Angeles, March 2014

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What a beautiful intelligent and heartfelt woman showing love for her elders! Amazing and heartwarming :)

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So interesting

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Funny how Chiemi sais she al;so always say Elaine walking all over NYC...inclding 24 blocks to her beauty parlor...down Madison/5th...ans zoom. Back from @2002-2006, Elaine nealry knocked my on my as in the street 3-4 times...@27th and 6th Avenue, when I was on break from my old job on 26th Street. SHe was usually walking with her then 3-4-5 y.o. grandnephew. I never spoke with her, but gestured with a smile and she did the same. KNocked on my ass (almost) by a woan in her late 70s. I attribute it to her strong dancer's legs! lmao