stereotypes of ageism are confronted and the beauty of aging is revealed through five Rhode Island elders who have shaped the landscape of Rhode Island and beyond. Their voices take flight against the backdrop of archival imagery that captures the vision of an earlier time.

 takes on the realities of aging and ageism through simple, personal stories of elders. While certain physical limitations are real as we age, there are many faculties that strengthen and often people report the older years as being the happiest years of their lives. Stereotypes not only have the effect of causing early death for those that hold them. They also maintain biases in our country that rob young and old alike of wisdom, guidance, knowledge, and equity.

Documentary

Optics of Aging

Michelle Le Brun, Producer/Director

Montreal Independent Film Festival

Utopia Film Festival

Rhode International Film Festival

Rhode Island Black Film Festival

Block Island Film Festival

The Women's Independent Film Television Film Festival

As Le Brun says, “ageism is the last “ism” it seems still ok to have. Let’s change that!”

Herb Weiss

How Michelle Le Brun, a documentary filmmaker and professor at URI, is breaking the stigma and raising awareness around ageism in her new film, 'Optics of Aging.'

Optics of Aging

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