MOVEMENT CONTENT
Creative | Production | Storytelling
LIFE AFTER LIFE
A Feature Documentary by Movement Content
Watch the Teaser below!
Movement Content is raising funds to complete the film. All donations through our fiscal sponsor, The Northwest Film Forum, are tax deductible.
Life After Life explores changing conversations about end-of-life through the perspectives of funeral industry professionals, entrepreneurs pushing for mental health and environmental reform, while everyday people experiencing loss discover a new sense of ritual.
Can human composting help us reimagine our relationship with death?
Help Complete Our Film Edit and Post-Production!
Our team is working on the edit and we need your support. Your contributions are crucial and tax-deductible through our fiscal sponsor, The Northwest Film Forum. Your involvement can make a significant difference in the success of our film. Thank you for being part of our filmmaking journey. For more information on how to support us, reach out via email.
ABOUT THE FILM
A groundbreaking burial practice disrupts the funeral industry, prompting those within to rethink rituals and drive a transformative shift in our relationship with death and the environmental legacy we leave behind. Life After Life explores the core of what it means to be human.
LIVE. DIE. REPEAT.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
JJ GERBER
Producer / Director
JJ Gerber is a Primetime Emmy nominated creative producer and storyteller, with a breadth of experience on projects that span feature narrative and documentary films, music videos, commercials and pretty much any other form of moving image.
JJ’s feature documentary credits include Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi (SXSW 2022 / MTV Documentary Films 2023) Harmontown (SXSW 2014 / The Orchard 2015) and We Are Blood (The Orchard 2015). He was a consulting producer on the feature film Beauty Is Embarrassing (Emmy Nominee / PBS Independent Lens 2014), helping with the strategy and implementation of nationwide theatrical self-distribution with Future You Media. LIFE AFTER LIFE is his feature documentary directorial debut.
SANDY JEGLUM
Editor
Sandy Jeglum has over a decade of experience editing unscripted short and feature-length documentaries. She started her editing career as the assistant editor of the award-winning feature-length documentary CRAZYWISE (Seattle International Film Festival, Mountainfilm) and the editor of the award-winning feature-length documentary Headhunt Revisited (Hawaii International Film Festival, LA Femme International Film Festival). Credits for short documentaries include Concerning Contraception (Cascadia International Women’s Film Festival), Artful Ashes (unreleased), and the award-winning Reimagining Freedom West (San Francisco Black Film Festival, Better Cities Film Festival). Sandy’s latest feature-length documentary is Take Hands (Northwest Folklife, Friday Harbor Film Festival). Currently in post-production is the feature-length documentary Above the Bamboo Room and Life After Life (working title). Sandy holds a Master's with Distinction in Documentary Production from the University of the West of England.
Clementine Briand
Producer
Clementine Briand has worked across various mediums, including corporate videos, television (CNN, BBC), and film, with projects taking her throughout Europe, the U.S., Georgia, China, Mongolia, Israel, and Libya.
Upon returning to the U.S., she shifted her focus to the documentary industry, starting by producing short-form content for the Emmy award-winning ITVS. She contributed to projects such as The History of White People, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2018 and 2019, and was a 2021 Webby Nominee for Video: Diversity and Inclusion. She also worked on Personhood, a feature documentary that premiered at Doc NYC 2020 and won the 2020 ABA Silver Gavel Award. After earning her Master's in documentary filmmaking in Berlin, she founded Farrago, an artist collective dedicated to non-fiction projects across podcasts, digital series, and both short- and long-form content.
KYLE SEAGO
Producer / DP
The son of an acclaimed deaf actor, Seattle native Kyle Seago was raised with a visual eye and a creative mind. After helping co-found the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (now the largest youth film festival in the world), Kyle began working as a TV producer on shows such as CW’s “America’s Next Top Model” and MTV’s “The Phone.” Kyle has produced over 30 hours of primetime television and traveled to at least 20 countries for international shoots.
After moving his home base back to Seattle, Kyle worked as a commercial producer (Microsoft, Volvo, McDonalds, Harley Davidson) and opened up a documentary film production studio, Seago Media. He currently splits his time documenting international tours and shows for musicians and directing short and long-form documentary film projects. He most recently produced Odesza: The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience.