Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory (2014)
Alive Inside
Music is the strongest form of magic
78 min
Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease and dementia—many of them alone in nursing homes. A man with a simple idea discovers that songs embedded deep in memory can ease pain and awaken these fading minds. Joy and life are resuscitated, and our cultural fears over aging are confronted.
- Release date
- January 18, 2014
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Dan Cohen as Self - Music and Memory
- Bill Thomas as Self - Gerontologist, Eden Alternative
- Concetta Tomaino as Self - Executive Director, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function
- Oliver Sacks as Self - Neurologist, Author
- Bobby McFerrin as Self - Musician
- Bobby McFerrin as Vocalist
- Bobby McFerrin as Composer
- Ann Wyatt as Self - Culture Change Consultant
- Peter Whitehouse as Self - Neurologist, Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University
- Samite Mulondo as Self - Musicians for World Harmony
- G. Allen Powers as Self - Eden Mentor at St. John’s Home, Rochester, NY
- Gregory Petsko as Self - Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis University
Crew
- Michael Rossato-Bennett · Director
- Michael Rossato-Bennett · Writer
- Alexandra McDougald · Producer
- Michael Rossato-Bennett · Producer
- Regina K. Scully · Producer
- Itaal Shur · Composer
- Shachar Langlev · Cinematographer
- Mark Demolar · Editor
- Jeff Pinilla · Editor
- Michael Rossato-Bennett · Editor
- Manuel Tsingaris · Editor