Documentary Director & Editor

This Much We KnoW

I was transported, transmorphed, transfixed and transduced.
— Debra Granick (Winter's Bone, Leave No Trace)
 
 
A film unlike anything I’ve ever seen. This Much We Know captures the way we think and transposes it onto the screen in an extraordinary way.
— Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson, Dick Johnson Is Dead)

Grieving the suicide of a close friend, a filmmaker travels out to Las Vegas at the peak of a suicide epidemic in an attempt to study the issue and find answers. There, she comes across the story of Levi Presley, a happy and accomplished young man, who suddenly jumped off the city’s tallest casino. That same week of his death, the United States Senate voted to permanently store the nation’s nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain - located just outside the city. Adapted from the book About a Mountain by John D’Agata, this free-wielding documentary explores the hidden waste of the American dream. Through interviews with the boy’s survivors, suicide experts, Yucca Mountain geologists, politicians, statisticians, and a psychic medium who talks to Levi’s spirit this film explores the struggle to find answers to great unknowns.

Directed and Edited by Frances Henderson

Based on the book About a Mountain by John D’Agata

Available to watch on Amazon , Apple TV, Google Play

Writing about the film:

TALKHOUSE What Happened Inside the Oculus

FILMMAKER MAGAZINE “The Pendulum Can Only Swing So Far Before the Industry Realizes That There is More to Film, and Life, Than Celebrities and Murderers”: Frances Henderson on Her Essay Doc, This Much We Know

Intricately crafted...
— New York Times


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