
HELICOPTER
A Radical Hybrid Documentary-Drama
Featuring Alejandro Jorodowsky
Based on the Groundbreaking
Student-Oscar Winning Short Film
Winner, Grand Jury Prize (Works in Progress)
FEST New Directors New Films
To heal his soul, a traumatized filmmaker embarks on a dangerous spiritual assignment from Alejandro Jodorowsky: to re-enact the helicopter crash that killed his mother, along with rock music impresario Bill Graham. Inspired by Ari Gold’s student-Oscar winning short film, “Helicopter” asks the radical question: can we heal from trauma by re-writing it?