“The Journey into a Man’s Open Heart”

Documentary filmmaker Ben Mittleman decides to turn the camera on himself when confronted with the same open-heart surgery that derailed his father’s life. “Dying to Live” chronicles the testing of a man’s heart and the processing of answers found in sorrow. The film goes beyond his personal medical experience r ...evealing the raw realities of his fight to survive, along with the relentless challenges facing the loved ones around him during his mid-life crisis.