Incompatible with Life: A film screening and conversation about motherhood, grief, reproductive justice, and the perils and power of storytelling
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Join us for a screening of Eliza Capai´s latest film, “Incompatible with Life,” followed by a conversation with the filmmaker. The film follows Capai’s personal experience in Brazil as she documents her pregnancy and learns a heartbreaking medical diagnosis. Her journey navigates grief, motherhood, and a system of laws that criminalizes almost all forms of abortion. The film is at once deeply personal and political as it explores the experience of other families who have received the diagnosis “incompatible with life.”
Speaker: Eliza Capai, Independent Documentary Filmmaker.
About the Speaker
In a very productive and ascending moment of her career, Eliza premiered her most intimate documentary, "Incompatible with Life", at It's All True International Film Festival. The film was awarded Best Feature and qualified for the Oscar Eliza signs the direction of the first Netflix’s Brazilian true crime series – "Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime" (2020). Her previous feature, the awarded documentary “Your Turn” premiered at Berlinale (2019) and was awarded with the International Amnesty Prize and Peace Prize. Since that, the film was released in 100+ festivals and received 20+ awards. Her second movie, “The Tortoise and the Tapir” (72’, 2016 - directed and scripted by Eliza Capai), investigates the gigantic hydroelectric plants built and planned in the middle of the Amazon forest during Brazil’s worst drought in decades. Her first feature, Here Is So Far (71’, 2013 - directed and scripted by Eliza Capai), is based on encounters with women during a seven-month trip in Africa. In its premiere at the Rio International Film Festival New Trends, the documentary was awarded Best Feature Film. It received multiple awards in Brazil and abroad. Capai graduated from University of São Paulo with a degree in journalism and was a fellow at MIT Open Documentary Lab.
Presented in Collaboration with the Harvard Law School FiLM Society, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, HLS Women’s Law Association, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the HKS Women and Public Policy Program.