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Bearing Witness: Luke Melchior - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB524329
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Adam Symansky, Pierre Lapointe, Sally Bochner
Directors: Dan Curtis
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Canadian Social Studies, Civics, Documentary, Family Studies/Home Economics, Health and Medicine, Learning Disabilities, Media and Communications, People With Disabilities, Psychology, Social Studies
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2003
Running Time: 51:10
Closed Captions: Yes
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Bearing Witness: Luke Melchior - DVD 
Catalogue Number: NFB524329
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Adam Symansky, Pierre Lapointe, Sally Bochner
Directors: Dan Curtis
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Canadian Social Studies, Civics, Documentary, Family Studies/Home Economics, Health and Medicine, Learning Disabilities, Media and Communications, People With Disabilities, Psychology, Social Studies
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2003
Running Time: 51:10
Closed Captions: Yes
Click here for pricing
Luke Melchior jokes that at least he doesn't have to watch his cholesterol intake. Already, at 26, he has lived longer than most people with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a progressive wasting of the muscles.
Knowing his life will be relatively short has made Luke feel an urgency about making a lasting contribution. He lives independently, with the help of three homecare workers, runs a web-based business selling outdoor gear, and chairs the board of the Disability Resource Centre in Victoria, BC, where he is a passionate advocate for the rights of the disabled.
Bearing Witness: Luke Melchior is a candid portrait of a year in Luke's life. Though his illness may set him apart, he is essentially a young man like so many others: concerned with making his way in the world, being as independent as possible and finding a girlfriend.
Bearing Witness consists of three films, each approximately one hour long, on people with life-threatening illnesses. The series also profiles Jocelyn Morton, who died of liver cancer at 44, and Robert Coley-Donohue, who died of ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease) at age 74.
Knowing his life will be relatively short has made Luke feel an urgency about making a lasting contribution. He lives independently, with the help of three homecare workers, runs a web-based business selling outdoor gear, and chairs the board of the Disability Resource Centre in Victoria, BC, where he is a passionate advocate for the rights of the disabled.
Bearing Witness: Luke Melchior is a candid portrait of a year in Luke's life. Though his illness may set him apart, he is essentially a young man like so many others: concerned with making his way in the world, being as independent as possible and finding a girlfriend.
Bearing Witness consists of three films, each approximately one hour long, on people with life-threatening illnesses. The series also profiles Jocelyn Morton, who died of liver cancer at 44, and Robert Coley-Donohue, who died of ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease) at age 74.