Agency - English program:.Ontario Centre. Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, Filmmaker-in-Residence project, with the creative participation of Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology, Animation Arts Centre. Study guide available.

Writer, Katerina Cizek ; director, Katerina Cizek ; producer, Gerry Flahive ; cinematographer, Katerina Cizek ; editor, Katerina Cizek ; sound recordist, Jeff Reyes, Chris Miller ; animator, Dianna Basso, Ken Collins, Andrew Gregoire, Rie Shibazaki, Daks Tomas, Junyu Zhao ; animation supervisor, Ben McEvoy ; producer, Jed DeCory, Mark Jones ; sound design, Chris Miller ; original music composer, Bob Wiseman ; executive producer, Silva Basmajian.

Recorded 2008.

How do people learn to live rather than to die?  Drawing from Life follows a group therapy workshop for people who have attempted to end their lives more than once.  A hybrid of vérité documentary and animation, this unusual film's visual metaphors illuminate the thoughts and feelings of its participants. This candid portrayal of twelve people who together, for 20 weeks, take on their fears, their behaviours and their ghosts to move towards life and away from suicide.  It's a surprisingly uplifting and universal story about what it means to be alive.  Drawing from Life is a production of the National Film Board of Canada Filmmaker-in-Residence project, produced with the creative participa­tion of Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology, Animation Arts Centre.  .

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).