{"id":81,"date":"2010-06-03T00:20:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T00:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2016-10-05T00:13:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:13:39","slug":"open-hearted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Open Hearted – Feature Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A not-so-normal family deals with a not-so-normal heart. \u00a0 \u00a0 Watch or Buy it on AMAZON.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

This feature documentary follows the filmmaker through the most harrowing ordeal of his life: preparing for, undergoing and recovering from his third open-heart surgery at the ripe age of 27.<\/a><\/p>\n

And not only does Marc have to come to terms with his own mortality, he also has to deal with anxious divorced parents who haven’t seen each other in years. Making this film almost killed the guy.<\/p>\n

53 minutes, 2002<\/p>\n

FESTIVALS<\/p>\n

Full Frame International Doc Film Festival
\nInternational Documentary Association’s “Doctober” showcase
\nOjai Film Festival<\/p>\n

DISTRIBUTION<\/p>\n

Fanlight Productions<\/a><\/p>\n

CREDITS<\/p>\n

Produced, Directed and Edited by Marc Ostrick<\/p>\n

Photographed by Adam Boucher<\/p>\n

Associate Producers: Adam Boucher & Rita Stern<\/p>\n

Additional Cameras: Ezra Soiferman, Felix Pire, Aidan McGlaze, Amelia McPartlon, Ben Boodman<\/p>\n

Music by: Gregg Fine & Michael L\u2019Acqua<\/p>\n

Associate Editor: Felix Pire<\/p>\n

Post-Production Assistant: Justina Grorich<\/p>\n

Sound Mix: Michael Geisler, BadaBing! BadaBoom! Productions<\/p>\n

Animation by David Criley<\/p>\n

Heart Sounds Recorded by: Dr. Michael Criley<\/p>\n

Cover art by Bernard Chang<\/p>\n

SUBJECTS<\/p>\n

Michele Ostrick
\nGil Ostrick
\nRosaleen Ostrick
\nDr. Hillel Laks
\nDr. Welton Gersony
\nDr. Denton Cooley
\nDr. Joseph Perloff
\nPam Miner, RN
\nJeff Gross, Medtronic
\nDr. Cahill
\nKeith Miller
\nAdam Ross
\nRoz Frankel
\nAnd yours truly, Marc Ostrick<\/p>\n

A FEW STATISTICS<\/p>\n

25,000 people are born annually in the United States with congenital heart defects. Every year, 5,600 people, mostly infants, die from congenital heart complications. Only in the past 30 years, since the mid-seventies, has open-heart surgery been a viable and widely accessible option for people with congenital defects. Even today, it is a procedure which, though frequently performed, requires the highest levels of training and performance.<\/p>\n

The human heart has been known to pump for a hundred years without failure, resting less than a second between contractions. It is a miracle of evolution, an emblem of endurance and a symbol of potency. The heart pumps life through our bodies and feeds fuels to our minds. Too bad mine was busted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A not-so-normal family deals with a not-so-normal heart. \u00a0 \u00a0 Watch or Buy it on AMAZON.\u00a0 This feature documentary follows the filmmaker through the most harrowing ordeal of his life: preparing for, undergoing and recovering from his third open-heart surgery at the ripe age of 27. And not only does Marc have to come to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,44,41,46,47,20,42,43],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-selected-works","tag-aortic-valve","tag-congenital-heart-defect","tag-documentary","tag-ida","tag-jewish","tag-marc-ostrick","tag-open-heart-surgery","tag-tetrology-of-fallot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostrickproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}