Hope Frozen
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| Directed by | Pailin Wedel |
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Production company | 2050 Productions |
| Distributed by | Netflix |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | Thailand |
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Hope Frozen is a 2019 Thai documentary film directed and co-written by Pailin Wedel, together with Nina Ijäs, and released by 2050 Productions. It follows a Thai couple who, after their three-year-old daughter dies of brain cancer in 2015, decide to have her body cryogenically preserved. Hope Frozen premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2019, where it won the Best International Feature Documentary award,[1] and was shown at several documentary film festivals.[2][3]
The documentary was picked up for distribution by Netflix under the title Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice, and was released on the platform on September 15, 2020.[4][5] It won the 49th International Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2021, becoming the first Thai production to win an International Emmy.[6]
Cast
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- Matrix Naovaratpong
- Nareerat Naovaratpong
- Sahatorn Naovaratpong
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Jennie Punter, "‘We Will Stand Up,’ ‘Hope Frozen’ Take Top Prizes at Hot Docs". Variety, May 4, 2019.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Hope Frozen on NetflixLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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