Experiencing Interruptions?

no regrets - the sequel

The greatest adventure together
may be the one that's about to end
for one of you.

  • Emeline Mann Sanchez
    Director
  • Emeline Mann Sanchez
    Writer
  • Emeline Mann Sanchez
    Producer
  • Mae Fong Mann
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 44 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 22, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English, Yue Chinese (Cantonese)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Emeline Mann Sanchez

Emeline is an award-winning producer and director. Her documentaries have won an Audience Award, Best Short Documentary, Best Experimental Film, Best Health and Medicine Film, and along with being the official selections for various film festivals, it has screened all over America from the west to the east coast, down south and up north, and to the faraway lands (relative to her) of the UK, Croatia, and Italy.

On the varied paths in her ongoing journey, Emeline was recruited to be an art director for an Easter Seals telethon broadcast in San Francisco, finessed her way into an impromptu internship at a local Oakland television station, completed a yearlong apprenticeship at a local Berkeley radio station—all leading to accidental filmmaker when her BFF, her dearest, sweetest mother left this world, the same mom she had been caregiving for the past 10+ years.

In her documentaries, Emeline shows how being with an elderly parent in their latter years can be rewarding not only for the parent but for the children; it is in the here and now and is a future that pertains to all of humanity.

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Director Statement

Those familiar with someone, especially an elderly parent, who is undergoing a debilitating condition, know that being with that someone, that parent, is that proverbial box of chocolates—you really never know what you’re going to get, what your interaction will be like with that someone, with that parent. I will hereafter, simply refer to parents, understanding that what I say is applicable to anyone undergoing some sort of debilitative process.

Come what may, it is ideal to be involved with your elderly parent, in her/his/their physical and emotional activities; this benefits them as well as you, and should the conditions be right, caring for your parent yourself can be transcendentally rewarding.

The joys of caring for your elderly parent at home is the day-to-day interactions that will go every which way it will; all things—the banal, the milestones, the good, the bad, and everything in between, would be lost or at best, few and far between if your parent was away from home, and the eventual regrets for not being there with her/him/them, when you had the time time to, will bring considerable pain and anguish you never knew you could have. (Unless, you were unlucky to have had a bad parent, or you are somehow bereft of the typical emotions that would allow you to feel emotional attachments with your fellow humans.)