Rebirth

REBIRTH is a riveting journey into living history, an act of personal witness to one of the most profound events in American history and the healing that has come in its wake. The result of a decade-long process by director Jim Whitaker, the inspirational story of REBIRTH follows the nearly ten-year transformation of five people whose lives were forever altered on September 11, 2001. The film simultaneously tracks, by multi-camera time-lapse photography, the minute-by-minute evolution of the space where the Twin Towers once rose. Both a singular cinematic and human experience, REBIRTH is deeply intimate and uplifting - providing a moving portrait of how trauma and grief metamorphose into hope and rebuilding, as the human spirit transcends the unthinkable over time.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Disc one

• Rebirth
• Feature length audio commentary with director Jim Whitaker and director of photography Tom Lappin
• English subtitles for the hearing impaired

Disc two

• 14 cameras, 24 hours - a video about the time-lapse project
• Extended cut of the time-lapse footage
• Project Rebirth - a video about the mission of this unique organization

With an exclusive essay by Davis Guggenheim, director of Waiting for Superman(2010) and the Academy Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth (2006)