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Director
  
Jessica Yu

Editor
  
Jessica Yu

Writer
  
Jessica Yu

Language
  
English

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Genre
  
Documentary, Short

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark OBrien movie poster

Release date
  
1996 (1996)

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject

Genres
  
Documentary, Short Film, Indie film, Biographical film

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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.

Cast

  • Mark O'Brien as Himself
  • Elizabeth Duvall as Herself
  • Ian Berzon as Himself
  • References

    Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien Wikipedia
    Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark OBrien IMDb Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark OBrien themoviedb.org