Seventy isn't the finish line — it's where these women started sprinting.
"Work While You Have the Light" is a feature documentary by a multi-generational directing team that examines professional women who are over seventy years old and still working.
Direction
Two generations of women filmmakers honoring their subjects' dignity
Writing
Stories that reframe 'still working' as triumph, not tragedy
Director
Phoebe Rubin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references a Dostoevsky quote about labor as spiritual purpose, reframed for women historically denied both.
Many subjects continued working because retirement meant poverty — the 'choice' to work is often economic necessity dressed in feminist empowerment language.
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