Loving John Screening & Conversation

Tuesday, November 17 at 7 pm

Join MPT on Tuesday, November 17, for a free, virtual, interactive screening and conversation about Loving John. This emotional, thought-provoking documentary about death and dying is also a quirky, often funny celebration of life. Following the screening, an exceptional panel will join us for an insightful discussion, including audience Q&A.

MEET THE PANEL:

• Peter Dare – John’s husband and principal caregiver
• Effie Nomicos – John’s close friend, RN, retired; formerly Clinical Project Manager and Senior Nurse Consultant at NIH 
• Drew VanLandingham – Executive Director, The Brigance Brigade
• Dr. Jeffrey Rothstein – Founder and Director, The Robert Packard Center of ALS Research at Johns Hopkins
• Robert Rooy – Producer and Director, Loving John
• Andrea Jones-Rooy – Moderator

ABOUT THE PROGRAM: John Godinet is an irrepressible Pacific Islander and ultra-runner living with his husband Peter in rural Maryland. He’s outrun abuse as a teenager and discrimination as an adult, but now has a new adversary: ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease).

Navigating this disease is physically and emotionally exhausting. But John and Peter have a tried-and-true 40-year survival strategy: deep-seated love cloaked in biting humor.

Loving John dives into the complexities, imperfections, and power of love, lived with a ticking clock. It invites viewers to deeply inhale the fullness of our shared human experience, made all the more precious because of its transience.

Watch the trailer below: