When we lose someone we love, we suddenly feel free to speak beautiful, flowery sentiments of gratitude, affection and admiration; words that we’ve kept bottledup for years. And now that we’re finally ready to say them, they can’t be heard by the person who needs to hear it most.

Let's not wait for another funeral to tell someone how much we love them. Time is startlingly short let's give eulogies to the living memorialise them facetoface. Speak all the words of love, to those we love. Say everything while they can still hear.

Let's celebrate life and those who matter in our lives, every day!

This film, which chronicles how the global Gracenotes movement began, tells the story of the first Gracenote that Andrea ever wrote, a eulogistic tribute to her father.

Featuring Andrea Driessen (www.AndreaDriessen.com and www.GraceNotes.org)
Filmed in Seattle, USA.
Watch her TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/andrea_drie...

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Who is Reflections of Life? We are Justine and Michael (previously known as Green Renaissance). We use our passion for filmmaking and our love of storytelling, to remind our audience of one simple truth – that we are all human. The more that we understand and believe in this interconnectedness, the more we will treat ourselves, one another, and planet earth with a greater sense of compassion.

Filming by Michael Raimondo
Editing by Justine du Toit
Sound mix by Tamryn Breakey

In collaboration with iNous, we recently released a beautiful deck of 52 cards each card containing a quote from one of our films, paired with the activating visual muses of Lanon Prigge. The aim of this deck is to rekindle childlike curiosity and creativity, helping to navigate the shared waters of our human experience with grace and joy. If you’d like to consider purchasing your copy, shop here https://tgc.link/reflections

The following music tracks are used in this film, all sourced from Epidemic Sound:
Amaranthine by Alan Ellis
Tell Me Again by Miles Avida
She Waits by Indigo Days
Grandpa by Infinity Ripple
Mending by Hanna Lindgren
As She Grabbed the Sky by Lama House

A huge thank you to these guys, who gave so generously of their to time to help with translations, enabling us to provide subtitles in the following languages:
Albanian by Denis Skendaj
Arabic by Frihat Oussama
Bulgarian by Polina Stoyanova
Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) by ShunYing Lu
Dutch by Karla Greven
English by Justine du Toit
French by Amélie Macoin
German by Tanja Pütz
Greek by Vicky Polychroni
Indonesian by Ary Nuansa
Italian by Grazia Gironella
Korean by Hotae Devin Noh
Polish by Anna Konieczna
Portuguese by Sibylle Steinpass and Lucivani Valvassori
Slovak by Zuzana Beratsova
Spanish by Paty Aguirre
Ukrainian by Sofia Bespalova
Vietnamese by Thi Le