OLIVER SACKS (WT) (360G-Wellcome-207423_Z_17_Z)

This ambitious and innovative feature documentary film is the definitive biography of renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks. With exclusive access to Sacks’ riveting and profoundly moving twilight reflections after receiving his terminal diagnosis, and crafted with a unique range of archive, this is a deeply illuminating exploration of the science of human consciousness and the nature of subjectivity. A meditation on the deep and intimate relation between art, science and storytelling, the scope of the project is vast. Our Emmy, BAFTA and Academy Award winning team are aiming to produce a creatively bold piece of cinema that pushes the documentary form, telling Sacks’ extraordinary life in the spirit of the man himself. With a non-linear structure and crafted with a myriad of material, the visual language of the film is central to conveying his work; altered states of consciousness and different neural rhythms - placing the experience of viewing the film on the threshold between the inner and outer world. Also true to the Sacks’ demystification of science, we aim to build a tailored outreach campaign focussed on accessibility; engaging an audience across the big universal questions; the vital scientific, neurological and philosophical themes that Sack’s career explored.