A two-year-old girl from Bangkok — nicknamed “Einz” — became the youngest person in the world to undergo cryo-preservation. After her death from brain cancer, her family stores her remains in an American lab – inside a tank in Arizona. Hope Frozen follows the family who made this unorthodox decision. The girl’s father, a laser scientist, yearns to give Einz the opportunity to experience a rebirth inside a regenerated body. He instills this dream inside his son, a 15-year-old whiz kid named Matrix, who wants to be a part of reviving his little sister. But what the boy later discovers will rattle the family’s radical hope in science.
Bio
Pailin Wedel is a Thai-American journalist and filmmaker who grew up in Asia. Wedel founded 2050 Productions in 2017. Her docs focus on themes of faith, trauma and the clash between the East and the West. Hope Frozen is her debut documentary feature. Wedel works with Al Jazeera English, Bloomberg, The New York Times, National Geographic, and Monocle. Wedel was formerly the Asia Interactive producer for the Associated Press. She began her career as a photojournalist at newspapers.
Screening with:
Ava in the End
Director: Ursula Ellis / 10:00
After tripping over her dog and dying, a young woman wakes up in purgatory and waits for her mind to be downloaded into a new body.