DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Five years ago I came across the book “Life before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives” by Jim B. Tucker, a child psychiatrist who studies children who seem to remember past lives. I was raised Catholic, therefore I always rejected the concept of reincarnation. However, the author was a notable psychiatrist and that caught my attention. The more I learned about reincarnation, the more I inadvertently became less scared of death and of losing my loved ones. I fell in love with the concept that our souls never cease to exist, and therefore, we are never born and we never die. I began to wonder, ‘what if we do reincarnate, what if soulmates do exist, and what if the love between two people could survive death and the time in between?’ The idea of timeless love inspired me to write I Remember You. 

‘Are human beings more than physical bodies, or is the soul an intangible function of the human brain? Can the human consciousness survive death?’ These are questions that I am fascinated by and that we might never get a conclusive answer for. And yet data that supports the hypothesis of reincarnation has been gathered and investigated for centuries. I was surprised to find out that many distinguished scientists and doctors have dedicated their careers to the study of past lives. In order to best present this concept, it was important to present the story from an objective point of view. 

LEAH, the main character in the story, is a scientist whose beliefs are strictly based on facts, so that when she is confronted with the possibility of her own reincarnation, the world as she knows it collapses. Leah is suddenly forced to consider the existence of events that science is unable to justify. As a research scientist desperately trying to find new cures and treatments for cancer, Leah gains a new perspective on life and death, and opens up her mind to the possibility that someone’s lost battle with cancer might only be the end of life as she knows it, not life lost forever. 

In developing the story of I Remember You, my intention is not to prove a theory, but rather to explore it. I am still skeptical about reincarnation, but I would like to believe that we will have the opportunity to live more than once, and that we can share many lifetimes with our loved ones. Regardless of one’s beliefs, I think that it is important to be reminded that there is more to our physical bodies that we still do not understand. 

By following Leah and Samuel’s journey, two opposite characters at a first glance, I hope to portray the idea that maybe love could bond two people eternally and reunite them in their next life, again and again.