2015 Schedule
Interactive: March 13–17  •  Film: March 13–21  •  Music: March 17–22

Based On A True Story: Games, Film and Cancer

Saturday, March 14
9:30AM - 10:30AM

Long Center
Kodosky
701 W Riverside Dr

In 2012, Ryan Green and Josh Larson began work on That Dragon, Cancer, a video game that acts as a living painting, a poem and interactive retelling of Ryan and Amy Green’s experience raising their son Joel, a 5-year-old who fought terminal cancer for 4 years before succumbing to the disease in 2014. In 2013, filmmakers David Osit and Malika Zouhali-Worrall started documenting the development of the game and the remaining 9 months of Joel's life for their film Thank You for Playing. In this panel, the game developers and filmmakers come together to discuss their shared, yet separate processes of documenting their own lives and those of others, the developers’ struggles of faith, the difficult subject of hope in the face of death, and the technical challenges and unique strengths of their chosen mediums of storytelling to express such a personal, tragic, yet hopeful story.

Hashtags

#sxsw #GameCancer

Presenters

David Osit

Dir/Producer

Kinematic Films LLC

Josh Larson

Co-Owner

Numinous Games

Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Dir/Producer

Kinematic Films LLC

Ryan Green

Co-Owner

Numinous Games

Details

Access
Free and open to the public. ***Admission subject to venue capacity and age restrictions.
Type
Solo / Dual / Panel
Theme
Gaming
Level
Intermediate

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