One week after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a father and his three daughters go on a family vacation to the same resort they visited 25 years ago. Using archival and present-day footage from both trips, this film is a portrait of one family’s grief through the lens of memory and nostalgia. Director’s Vision for ‘Last Resort’ In the summer of 2024, my father was officially diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s.

Just a week later, my family returned to a resort in Mexico we had visited as children 25 years ago. I brought my camera along because, like many filmmakers, I often process life through the lens. By the end of the trip, I realized I wasn’t just documenting a family vacation, I was capturing our family’s grief in real-time as we adjusted to the idea that we were losing our father.

A few months later, he expressed his wishes to be euthanized, which is something we are currently continuing to explore as a family. Shortly after this, on a whim I began weaving together the footage I shot from the recent trip to Mexico with home videos my father had taken of us there as kids. The contrast was immediate and profound.

This short helped me reconnect my with roots as a documentary filmmaker. But more importantly, it has allowed me to share my own story and explore my continuous grief in the only way I know how…through film.