Film Daily: 20 Questions With Nicole Betancourt – The Woman

"We sat down with Nicole to talk grief, lucid dreams, and how filming from bed helped birth her boldest work to date...shot across continents—including a stunning sequence of Nicole entwined in the Catalonian earth—The Unfixing explores what happens when healing isn’t linear, and the planet’s pain mirrors our own..."

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The Unfixing: Director on Healing Herself, Her Family & the Planet

"Writer-Director Nicole Betancourt has been on a long journey to rediscover health at large, not only her own but her family and Earth as a whole. While it's quite an ambitious goal, she chronicles ..."The Unfixing, which was

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The Movie Gourmet reviews The Unfixing

"Wholly original cinema that people hope to see at a film festival....The clever structure (in yearly segments tied to climate change) and repeated motifs (of photography, the beach and grief) make this an art film inside a memoir."

THOUGHTLINE on KFJC Radio interviews Nicole

Robert Emmet says of The Unfixing:

“The Unfixing is an absolutely remarkable film and it is so artistically told. This is ultimately a film that is so full of hope” Robert Emmett

Women in Entertainment interviews Nicole

“The Unfixing” explores the idea of "unfixing" our perspectives. What inspired you to take on this concept as the central theme?

If we don’t believe things can change, who will? So many young people are anxious and in despair, and why wouldn't they be? My child Blue at the age of 12 says in the film, “I don't really

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Too Opinionated interviews Nicole

Too Opinionated podcast interview is available on Spotify as well.

Digital Journal's Markos Paopadatos interviews Nicole

How did it feel to create “The Unfixing”?

Creating this film over seven years consumed my waking life and my dreams – not in a creepy, obsessive way, but more of a give-your-life-meaning way. It brought joy and play into my life during one of my most difficult times.

The Unfixing on the Canary Collective Podcast

Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm, musician, chronic illness and environmental activist, and host of the Canary Collective Podcast sits up in bed as she talks with THE UNFIXING creator Nicole Betancourt.

Nicole invited to speak at New York Climate Week

Analise Roland, Anura Capital’s Managing Partner and CEO, invited Nicole to talk about "The Unfixing" at “Growing Regenerative Futures: Cocktails + Conversation." We screened the trailer and talked about how changing the human relationship with our bodies and the Earth is a crucial first step to shift the systems that are destroying nature and the diversity of life. They filmed the conversation so we could share it here.

The movement below the surface: Why this film now

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