Dr. Maren Grainger-Monsen in San Francisco Chronicle

Maren Grainger-Monsen is amazing. Her film "Hold Your Breath" is the story of the care give to Afghan immigrant Mohammed Kochi. But that doesn't begin to get at the depth of the film, by bioethicist and Stanford "bioethics in film" program director Grainger-Monsen. I met Maren when she and I were figuring out how our respective Greenwall Foundation-funded projects would overlap. From my point of view, anything anybody else can do in bioethics and film, Maren can (and will) do better. She's just amazing.

Maren's Breath film left a roomful of stodgy bioethics professors weeping (well, it did me anyway), and from the tone of this SF Chronicle review she will likely see Breath make its way to some major awards in the non-fiction independent film awards (whatever those are).

She is well into a big program that has developed several films and other products and among her films are some that are used by most major medical schools in the English-speaking world. Here's the piece on her work in the SFChron.