Hope Frozen

{{short description|2019 documentary film}}

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| name = Hope Frozen

| image = Hope Frozen.jpg

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| caption = Film poster

| director = Pailin Wedel

| producer =

| writer = {{Plainlist|

• Nina Ijäs
• Pailin Wedel

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| studio = 2050 Productions

| distributor = Netflix

| released = {{Film date|2019|04|27|Hot Docs}}

| runtime = 75 minutes

| country = Thailand

| language = {{Plainlist|

• Thai
• English

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Hope Frozen is a 2019 Thai documentary film directed and co-written by Pailin Wedel, together with Nina Ijäs, and released by 2050 Productions. It follows a Thai couple who, after their three-year-old daughter dies of brain cancer in 2015, decide to have her body cryogenically preserved. Hope Frozen premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2019, where it won the Best International Feature Documentary award,Jennie Punter, [https://variety.com/2019/film/festivals/we-will-stand-up-hope-frozen-take-top-prizes-hot-docs-1203205112/ "‘We Will Stand Up,’ ‘Hope Frozen’ Take Top Prizes at Hot Docs"]. Variety, May 4, 2019. and was shown at several documentary film festivals.{{cite news |last1=Mullen |first1=Pat |title=Review: 'Hope Frozen' |url=http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/review-hope-frozen |accessdate=September 16, 2020 |work=POV Magazine |date=April 29, 2019 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Bunnag |first1=Tatat |title=Defeating death |url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/social-and-lifestyle/1705504/defeating-death |accessdate=September 16, 2020 |work=Bangkok Post |date=July 2, 2019}}

The documentary was picked up for distribution by Netflix under the title Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice, and was released on the platform on September 15, 2020.{{cite web |url=https://meaww.com/hope-frozen-a-quest-to-live-twice-release-date-plot-trailer-netflix-cryonics-documentary |website=Meaww |title='Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice': Release date, plot, trailer and all you need to know about the Netflix documentary |date=September 2020 |accessdate=September 15, 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/netflix-documentary-hope-frozen-quest-180000857.html |website=Yahoo|title=The Netflix documentary 'Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice' is here, 'Antebellum' heads straight to VOD and more of this week's best in pop culture |date=14 September 2020 |accessdate=September 15, 2020}} It won the 49th International Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2021, becoming the first Thai production to win an International Emmy.{{cite news |last1=Pedersen |first1=Erik |title=International Emmys: 'Masked Singer', 'Tehran', 'Call My Agent!' Among Winners – Complete List |url=https://deadline.com/2021/11/international-emmys-2021-winners-list-masked-singer-tehran-call-my-agent-1234879323/ |access-date=27 November 2021 |work=Deadline |date=23 November 2021}}