Time for Unrest.
Cohosting a fantastic documentary with the protagonists and doctors from the film and local patients.
Summary: 20-year-old Jennifer Brea is working on her PhD at Harvard and months away from marrying the love of her life when she gets a mysterious fever that leaves her bedridden and looking for answers. Determined to live, she turns her camera on herself and her community — a hidden world of millions confined to their homes and bedrooms by ME, commonly called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
The rates of autoimmune diseases have tripled to quintupled in the last fifty years, and yet our systems of research and care have been woefully inadequate to tackling the epidemic. Unrest is in many ways a story about what happens when we fail to invest in science. What role do our own biases play in the questions we choose to ask and the places we neglect to look?
The film also features Ron Davis, a Stanford professor of genetics & biochemistry whose work was crucial to the success of the Human Genome Project, now caretaker to his son Whitney who is so ill, he can no longer speak.
This fall, we are planning to launch Unrest theatrically in cities across the US, along with a campaign of community screenings to engage medics, students, scientists, policymakers, and leaders in biotech & pharma across the country. The film will air on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2018.
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