"Walk With Me" Film Screening and Panel Conversation

The UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center is delighted to present the San Francisco premiere of Walk With Me, a beautiful feature documentary about love and perseverance in the face of dementia. This film is executive-produced by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, and it is the directorial debut of Heidi Levitt, an acclaimed casting director whose career spans over 100 feature films, from the Oscar-winning The Artist to The Rock, The Joy Luck Club, JFK, and Natural Born Killers. Trained to appreciate the beauty and drama of the quotidian, Levitt turns her discerning eye inward to tell the deeply personal story of her husband Charlie Hess's diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease and their shared experience over the last six years.

Join us for this special screening in the Sandler Auditorium, followed by a conversation with director Heidi Levitt, her husband Charlie Hess, and Dr. Bruce Miller, director of the UCSF Fein Memory and Aging Center!

Walk With Me premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival and received a Special Jury Prize for Directing, and will be theatrically released this February by Outsider Pictures. San Raphael Film Center will host a screening on Sunday, February 22, at 4:15 p.m. in collaboration with the Center for Asian American Media. To learn more and purchase tickets for the San Raphael screening, click here. 

Heidi Levitt has won four Artios Awards for excellence in casting in film and is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, and the American Film Institute. She has been a senior lecturer at AFI for over a decade and has also guest lectured at the University of Vermont and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Heidi is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is based in Los Angeles, CA, and Stowe, VT.