 Los Angeles, CA - THE LONG GOODBYE: The Kara Tippetts Story,
a heartfelt story a woman thrust into the national spotlight through a
terminal cancer diagnosis, will be available on Netflix Sunday, June 23.
The film spent time at the #1 spot on the Amazon Documentaries chart,
and remained in the Top 10 for over 6 weeks after it’s release.
Kara
Tippetts was a pastor’s wife, mother of four young children, and
creator of a popular mommy-blog focused on parenting with kindness. Kara
already had a loyal following when, at just 38 years old, she began
facing and processing a cancer diagnosis on the site. Her blog and
subsequent best-selling books became hallowed ground as people around
the world were touched by her faith, honesty, and candor.
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With
this incredibly raw documentary, Kara allowed the world to walk with
her as she chronicled first what it meant to be a young wife and mother
battling a disease, and then ultimately what it meant to live and die
with love and dignity.
Shot
in real-time and featuring Kara’s own vlogs and cell phone videos, this
film offers an intimate, vulnerable look into a dying woman’s last
days. The film also features Kara’s friends-including Ann Voskamp, Joanna Gaines, Ellie Holcomb, President of Focus on the Family Jim Daly, Dianne Derby from KKTV, and bonus features with Joni Eareckson Tada.
During her journey with cancer, Kara wrote and published three books, includin
g Just Show Up: The Dance of Walking Through Suffering Together, And It was Beautiful: Celebrating Life in the Midst of the Long Good-Bye and The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life’s Hard, which won the 2015 ECPA Inspirational Book of the Year award.
Additionally,
Kara was thrust into the spotlight when a letter she penned to Brittany
Maynard went viral. In the letter, Kara asked Brittany to reconsider
her choice to move to Oregon to participate in an assisted
suicide. Kara’s was a gentle, hope-filled message that could only be
shared between two young women whose lives would end too soon.
Kara’s
vulnerability had an incredible impact on tens of thousands of people
and grew that community of support in surprising ways. Faith
influencers from around the globe began to find ways to assist Kara by
sharing her posts, sending personal messages, serving the family’s
needs, as well as just becoming her friend.
This
included filmmakers Jay and Sofia Lyons, who discovered Kara’s story
through a facebook note from a friend. The couple simply felt led to do
something for her. Sofia states how God led them down a path to create
the film by a series of ‘breadcrumbs’, “First, we just wanted to do
something special for Kara and her family. This evolved into creating a
7-minute video about her life, which ultimately opened up a conversation
about fully documenting her last few months on earth.”
THE LONG GOODBYE also showcases footage from a house concert performed by Ellie Holcomb, a
new arrangement of one of Kara’s favorite hymns by Selah, and an
original song by Travis Cottrell. Additionally, one of the filmmakers, Sofia J., contributes 2 original songs written for the film including “I’ll See You Again.”
In
association with Freely, THE LONG GOODBYE: The Kara Tippetts Story was
created by Jay Lyons Productions and is distributed through Ocean Avenue
Entertainment. THE LONG GOODBYE will be available June 23 on Netflix. http://karatippettsdocumentary.com/
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