NEW YORK RESIDENTS — Join us for a FREE PUBLIC SCREENING of the internationally award-winning Vanishing: A Love Story, Monday, November 17, 7:00pm at the Chain Theater 312 West 36th Street, 4th Floor. Please RSVP as seating is limited

This free screening is provided to New Yorkers to fulfill the terms and conditions as a recipient of the 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts Women’s Fund Grant and as the BEST OF FEST winner at the 2025 NYC Chain International Film Festival.

Sandra Luckow’s Vanishing offers an almost shockingly close-up view of a life well lived and arguably well ended. Focused raptly on the late author Cai Emmons, the film is documented from so deep within her home and intimate circle that at times it also seems to have been shot from inside her head. Emmons is the intellectual driver of Vanishing—but it’s Luckow’s principled humility before her subject, and before the inescapable realities of illness and death, that enable this film to begin in voicelessness and dissolution and end in eloquent affirmation.

                                               --Stuart Klawans, National Magazine Award winner for Reviews and Criticism

Awards

BEST OF FEST — NYC Chain International Film Festival

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY — Manhattan Film Festival

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY — Lighthouse Lens International Film Festival

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY — New York Independent Women’s Film Festival

NY VISON AWARD — Harlem International Film Festival

BEST DIRECTOR OF A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY — London Vision Film Festival

BEST EDITING — London Vision Film Festival

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY NOMINEE - AFIN International Film Festival — Australia

WINNER CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION — AFIN International Film Festival — Australia

HONORABLE MENTION — DaVinci International Film Festival

Richmond International Film Festival

Pembroke Taparelli Arts and Film Festival

BELIFF - Be Epic

CERTIFICATE OF MERIT — Documentaries without Borders