As art imitates life, Lindsay MacKay had a 2017 cerebral hemorrhage, before helming a romantic drama that bows at the Toronto Film Festival and where one of the lead characters dies from their own traumatic brain injury.
The director never saw that proverbial white light, but MacKay still has vivid memories of her own brain aneurysm that, like a lightening bolt to the head, struck her down as she sprinted on a treadmill in her parents’ home while visiting them in her native Canada.
MacKay survived the severe brain injury because a paramedic kept her on life support via a breathing tube in the ambulance until they could get her to an intensive care unit where she laid in a coma for days. “[The doctors] told my parents that it was a really grave situation, and if there was anyone that needed to say goodbye, they should be informed,” MacKay recalled.which follows aspiring singer-songwriter Carey, played by Clemens, who falls for Owen, a local bookstore clerk , even as she’s married to Simon, played by Adams.
But MacKay remained tight-lipped over her brain injury when putting herself up for the gig because, she may have survived a near-death experience, but her doctors warned MacKay that she might never direct a movie again. “I was told when I was in the hospital that I would never be able to return to my career. And I obviously thought I wouldn’t be able to do this again,” said MacKay, who graduated from the American Film Institute and premiered her first movie,“There was a lot of change in my life, but I knew my [creative] taste was still there. My passion for storytelling was still there. And those two things were the driving force in my life,” she added.
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