Generation Reinvention 54: Boomer Men and “The Embrace of Aging”

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Executive Producer and Director Keith Famie is a nine-time Emmy Award winning filmmaker and founder of Visionalist Entertainment Productions, which he established in 1997.

Keith is a renaissance man, with a rich history of entrepreneurial adventures. He began his career as a chef, lived in France, owned restaurants, and won food and wine awards. He became a celebrity chef on The Food Network and produced thirty-two segments of “Keith Famie’s Adventures.” He also ended up on “Survivor: The Australian Outback.” As testament to his tenacious personality, he was the last survivor voted off the show.

His current project is a three-part documentary films series entitled “The Embrace of Aging.” Each documentary focuses respectively on the aging process of men, women and the end of life. Each film searches for revelations about how men and women from diverse backgrounds and cultures face the inevitable — how they are embracing aging today.

Keith’s production company has created moving and award-winning documentary films, for example:

“Detroit: Our Greatest Generation” is a film about WWII veterans and a tribute to the ‘Greatest Generation.’ The premiere, held at Detroit’s Fox Theatre in December 2009, attracted 3,200 sons, daughters, grandchildren and relatives to salute their ‘heroes’ on the big screen.

“Our Vietnam Generation,” a film dedicated to the unsung heroes, and survivors of the Vietnam War. Again, an emotionally charged premiere attracted over 3,000 attendees in January 2011.

This special episode of Generation Reinvention will examine how men are changing aging and adapting to this lifestage, based on Keith Famie’s extensive travel and interviews with experts worldwide.

WEBSITES

www.v-prod.com

www.Embraceofaging.com