Produced by Greg Bennick (ex-Trial) and Patrick Shen (Transcendental Media), Flight From Death is a documentary about human violence and what motivates our aggressive behavior.
Inspired by the works and writings of cultural anthropologist and social theorist Dr. Ernest Becker, the film looks at human fear of death on a subconscious level as the reason and inspiration behind our tendency towards fighting, war, and brutality. In that search Flight From Death reveals to viewers much about themselves and the workings of their minds which they might never have realized before.
The film has toured film festivals around the world since 2003 and was recently released on DVD in both North America and Australia. The film has since been screened throughout the United States, Canada, Africa, Europe, and Australia and has been used in over a hundred colleges and universities as a means of initiating discussions on aggression and how to deal with the problem of violence worldwide. Recent television appearances in 2008 include the Discovery Channel in Canada and nationwide in Poland, with live screenings currently scheduled on three different continents in the next few months.
