A documentary film in progress
Time to Heal
Broken doesn't always mean beyond repair.
When a traumatc brain injury changes everything, healing begins on a different clock.
Ric's story
A life interrupted. An art discovered.
A world-class adventurer – a mountaineer, a pilot, a circumnaviator, an athlete who lived by his body and his instruments – loses everything to a traumatic brain injury.
Years into an isolation he never chose, he finds an unlikely lifeline: the quiet, exacting art of restoring antiue pocket watches. At his workbench, Ric found a new way forward. Told through his experience and the eyes of his wife and filmmaker, Kim, Time to Heal follows the losses, the love and the unexpected life that emerged.
“I watched the life we knew unravel and dissolve – and in letting go, we discovered a life reimagined.”
A FIRST LOOK - The trailer
Watch the story unfold
The four-minute trailer offers a glimpse into Ric’s journey and the film’s intiate black and white approach to life that is anything but.
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Time to Heal
Your support will help complete a film that gives voice to the often invisible experience of brain injury – and to the people who walk beside someone through it.
Fundraising Goal
$30,000 CAD
Target Completion
2027
Contributions will support the work of editing, sound, finishing and preparing the film to be shared with audiences and communities.
The filmmaker
A story told from within
Kim Holl is the filmmaker behind Stories Told on Film. As Ric’s wife and caregiver, she brings a close and personal perspective to Time to Heal. The film is an act of witnessing: what changed, what endured and how a new life took shape.