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Podcast: Running on Joy
Episode: Episode 41: Pola Rapaport
Description: Joy is...Liberation.Pola Rapaport is a writer, director, and editor of many award-winning films, as well as the producer of art-related video content, and a university instructor. I came across her work with the premiere of her new documentary Addicted to Life, a paradoxical, intimate, vulnerable and, ultimately, inspirational documentary about the Belgian Paralympic champion Marieke Vervoort who takes control of her ailing health to request medical aid-in-dying. The film charts the dramatic events of Vervoot’s final inspirational three years, during which her acceptance of death becomes an affirmation of life. It is an extraordinary piece...