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The Living

Organ Harvesting Initiative surgeon Isaac North visits a Colorado refugee town where quadriplegic Luther Hillman has signed up to be euthanized in return for his wife’s medical care, his organs harvested for more “productive” citizens.

Series

FUTURESTATES

Premiere Date

May 22, 2013

Length

18 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production, Development

Julian Breece

Director

Julian Breece is the creator, writer, and executive producer of BET’s comedy series What Would Dylan Do? He created, wrote, and directed BET’s web drama Buppies, and his short The Young and Evil was an Official Selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. His feature screenplay, Gracey, is being produced by Winkler Films. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Southern California’s Graduate Film School, Breece is a fellow of Outfest and Film Independent’s Project:Involve.
Rikki Jarrett

Producer

Rikki Jarrett graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema and Television. She has been producing films independently since 2007. Her first feature film, the sci-fi romantic comedy TiMER, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She co-produced the feature documentary Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal. She is a 2009 Film Independent Project: Involve Fellow and a 2011 Film Independent Producer’s Lab Fellow.
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