Fast-Forward: PBS Helps Viewers Take Control of the Rest of Their Lives
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Planning ahead can be difficult, daunting, and emotional. Many people put it off until it’s too late. Still, every day is a new opportunity to change that. In the film Fast-Forward, four millennials and their baby boomer parents go through an “aging bootcamp” to see
their futures and attempt to answer the question, “If you knew now, what you’ll know then, would you change anything?” Together the parent-child duos experience how their bodies, minds, and lives might change over the next 30 years, which sparks revelatory conversations about their futures and how to prepare for them.
Fast-Forward Enables the Younger Generation to Experience What It’s Like to Be Older
Fast-Forward, a 60-minute film narrated by Rosario Dawson, inspires viewers to see their future in a whole new light and have critical conversations with their families about how they can maximize their choices and well-being throughout life. Wearing an MIT-produced “aging
empathy suit” and working with professional make-up artists, the film's subjects grapple with the realizations, conversations, and mindset required to age successfully. After seeing what these families discover, viewers might want to get started on their own future-planning.
According to the film’s producer and director, Michael Eric Hurtig, “Fast-Forward is a movie about traveling into your eighties to consider how it might feel and how you might look, and consider life at that age. It's essential viewing for anybody that expects to get older — and that would be everyone. It's a social group we all aspire to be part of one day, and this film touches all
different audiences and all different perspectives. Our resources offer opportunities for you to create your own 'Fast-Forward' experiences.”
Next Avenue has partnered with the film to produce courses and a digital toolkit of resources, including step-by-step instructions and a master checklist, designed to help viewers prepare their own aging plans. They’ve put together a simplified way to get a plan in place for the coming years and decades of your life.
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