Riding Home
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Caryl is dying -- but she’s funny, direct, stubborn, and determined to live on her own terms. Gorgeously shot against the winter landscapes of rural Vermont, Riding Home follows Caryl through her final months as she draws her family closer. After Caryl’s sister Christie dies by suicide, Caryl and her husband Jim adopt Christie’s adult children, Steph and Drew. Now Caryl gives them what they did not have before: time to ask questions, laugh, grieve, and say goodbye. Intimate and unexpectedly life-affirming, Riding Home shows how facing death honestly can make life feel more vivid.
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Biography Elyse Neiman Seiter :
Elyse Neiman Seiter is an Emmy Award–winning television producer, director, and filmmaker with over two decades of experience in nonfiction television and documentary storytelling. She has worked across every stage of production— from casting and shooting to producing, supervising, executive producing, and post-production— collaborating with networks including MTV, TLC, HGTV, Travel Channel, NYC Media, and Food Network. Through her company, Mindful Films, Elyse focuses on telling intimate stories about illness, healing, and end-of-life, with the goal of helping audiences reflect on the fragility and preciousness of life. In 2023, she completed a year-long training program, Foundations in Contemplative Care, at the New York Zen Center, where she studied how to bear witness and hold space for people nearing the end of life. She later trained as an end-of-life doula in 2025. Elyse is deeply interested in the intersection of storytelling, healing, and mortality, and hopes to help pioneer the use of film as a form of narrative medicine.
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