Winter Hymns

Look for this on the festival circuit in '26-'27. Really thoughtful handling of this material. Exceptional cast for low-budget feature.

Sam Van Hallgren

| 79 | The intense pressure and emotional endurance that a doctor is forced to endure on a daily basis. Dealing with terminally ill patients day in and day out. A very simple plot and all shot in one location. Some very good cinematography, there were a number of shots…

filmaddict24

6:30 pm I think Nathan Deming is probably the best local Wisconsin filmmaker. Excluding industry professionals like Orson Wells who were born in Wisconsin. This dude is just simply really damn good at making films. I’m impressed with how professional his work looks in the…

Late Movie Reviews

Big fan of this! Glad I caught it at the Wisconsin film festival. My dad is also a palliative care doctor, so it’s fascinating seeing what his work entailed. I love a movie that breathes and lets the actors perform, rather than using a lot of cuts to drive the scene. This…

Stephen Deming

Such a different viewing experience to watch something you helped make! Watching scenes you remember being on the other side of the camera for is kind of surreal. Incredibly grateful to have worked on this! And it was very good!

Colton Nash

not really my thing. pretty early on i started forming gripes with the DP. everything is filmed in a very flat and plain way, but it doesn’t look how real-life tools either. it’s a two and a half hour long film set in one room that mostly just people sitting and talking.…

cowboysam

Colleen Madden is such a sniper. We have an incredible well of talent in Wisconsin and this film is a lovely and thoughtful showcase for that in all departments. Really rooting for this to get a wider release!

lebrianna_rose

Death and dying are so often treated as things we’re not supposed to talk about, but this film refuses that silence. It brings us into the quiet, intimate spaces where death is not abstract, but immediate and deeply human. Through this film, we see how death moves through…

Andrea Watkins

Imagine Allan King’s Dying at Grace but as long, unfiltered conversations between a palliative care doctor and her underserved and wholly unprepared patients. There’s also a little bit of In Session, Shoah and hell, even My Dinner With Andre in these conversations, which…

Zach