Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark OBrien
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Writer Jessica Yu Language English | 7.8/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Short Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1996 (1996) Awards Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject Genres Documentary, Short Film, Indie film, Biographical film Similar movies Related Jessica Yu movies |
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien is a 1996 American short documentary film directed by Jessica Yu. It won an Academy Award at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997 for Documentary Short Subject.
Mark O'Brien was a journalist and poet who lived in Berkeley, California. The documentary explored his spiritual struggle coping with his disability; he had to use an iron lung much of the time due to childhood polio. O'Brien died on July 4, 1999, from post-polio syndrome.
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