Molly Gandour

Molly Gandour produced the Academy Award-nominated HBO doc Gasland. Her upcoming feature-length documentary, Peanut Gallery, is about talking for the first time in depth with her parents about her sister’s death—sixteen years after the fact. It will be released this Summer 2017 by Random Media. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Land of the Ill

Recently, my friend’s mom was dying.  I had no idea what to say or do. Because I’ve been through it all — the hospital waiting rooms, diagnosis, ICU, oxygen machine, the relapses — I’d like to think I’d know exact right quip or quote.  My friend would call and explain the situation: fluid behind his mom’s heart, repeated infections, a respirator.  All signs pointed to a death process, yet I kept wanting to tell him she’d be okay, there’d be a miracle, it would all work out. I’d get off the phone, disappointed in myself.  I felt I was failing. […]

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Molly Gandour: A documentary called Peanut Gallery

Molly Gandour created Peanut Gallery, a documentary that addressed her sister’s death and the silence that ensued. Only recently did Gandour and her parents begin talking about the death. She shares her story with Dr. Heidi Horsley during the 2015 Association for Death Education and Counseling conference.  Her sister died when Gandour was ten, and it wasn’t until she was an adult that the subject was breached. She returned to India to start this conversation. “It really captures how difficult it is to have these conversations,” says Dr. Horsley. Gandour’s sister had leukemia for as long as she can remember, […]

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My Sister Died and I Waited 16 Years to Deal With It

I never expected to make a documentary film about my family. I didn’t think of myself as someone who had a story to tell. My sister had died when I was ten years old and by that time her illness seemed pretty normal to me. Aimee was diagnosed with leukemia when I was two years old, so I grew up always knowing my older sister was sick. One of my earliest memories is playing with the toys in the hospital waiting room while she was in the examination room getting a spinal tap. When she died in 1994, I became […]

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