A Story of Healing
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A Story of Healing is a short documentary film
in which Donna Dewey follows a team of five nurses, four anesthesiologists
, and three plastic surgeons
from Interplast
in the United States
for two weeks of volunteer work in the Mekong delta
of Vietnam
. The film shows not only how this changes the lives of the 110 patients who undergo surgery, but also the lives of the volunteers themselves. The epilogue, which runs after the credits, follows-up on two patients helped by Interplast, 16 months after their surgery.
"A Story of Healing" won the 1997 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
, and in 2007, became the first Academy Award winning film to be licensed under a Creative Commons
license when it was licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License
.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
in which Donna Dewey follows a team of five nurses, four anesthesiologists
Anesthesia
Anesthesia, or anaesthesia , traditionally meant the condition of having sensation blocked or temporarily taken away...
, and three plastic surgeons
Plastic surgery
Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery, most plastic surgery is not cosmetic: plastic surgery includes many types of reconstructive surgery, hand...
from Interplast
Interplast
Interplast, now called ReSurge International, is the first international humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive surgery in developing countries, primarily to children with cleft lip and palate and burn scar contractures....
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
for two weeks of volunteer work in the Mekong delta
Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries. The Mekong delta region encompasses a large portion of southwestern Vietnam of . The size of the area covered by water depends on the season.The...
of Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
. The film shows not only how this changes the lives of the 110 patients who undergo surgery, but also the lives of the volunteers themselves. The epilogue, which runs after the credits, follows-up on two patients helped by Interplast, 16 months after their surgery.
"A Story of Healing" won the 1997 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
, and in 2007, became the first Academy Award winning film to be licensed under a Creative Commons
Creative Commons
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license when it was licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License
Creative Commons licenses
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.