Excellent piece by an ME/CFS sufferer in USA Today College - his girlfriend has a degree in film and has made a superb trailer for a documentary film that she wants to make, to be used by campaigners to get screenings.
Here's the trailer - watch it, it's amazing! Great clips of Bob Miller in action.
Here's the USA Today College article - read it, it's great!
http://www.usatodayeducate.com/stag...-the-hidden-story-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome
He's asking for donations on kickstarter to get it funded - total cost $12,000. They're already 10% there.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2074880665/the-blue-ribbon-me-cfs-and-the-future-of-medicine
Here's the trailer - watch it, it's amazing! Great clips of Bob Miller in action.
Here's the USA Today College article - read it, it's great!
http://www.usatodayeducate.com/stag...-the-hidden-story-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome
He's asking for donations on kickstarter to get it funded - total cost $12,000. They're already 10% there.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2074880665/the-blue-ribbon-me-cfs-and-the-future-of-medicine
"We plan to travel through 10 cities across North America interviewing activists, patients, researchers, and doctors. We'll produce a feature-length film documentary for release on Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, and Amazon Video on Demand.
Yet even more than that, we plan to equip people in towns and cities across the world to stage screenings of the film in movie theaters, schools, hospitals, churches, and community organizations. It's a tragic fact of this illness that most patients are far too ill to protest in the streets in order to get society to hear our voices. However, we can tell this story through a documentary film, widely distributed through grassroots organizing. We can tell the story, together, and help build bridges between communities of faith, politics, science, and the arts. True change will happen person by person, one community at a time.
Nicole and I could never do this project on our own. This is a community project. It requires not only funding from individuals and organizations but also an army of people across the world who are on fire about this film and its message, who want to tell anyone and everyone about it. We'll make the documentary. We'll distribute it on Netflix, Hulu, and iTunes. But we'll need each and every one of you to help make its message stick.
We've been reaching out to prominent researchers, activists, and scholars in the ME/CFS community and we've been excited about the response so far. But more importantly, we're delighted about the surprisingly strong response from all the "ME/CFS agnostics" with whom we've been talking. People with backgrounds in law, politics, science, faith, and the arts are moved by the struggle of people with ME/CFS and see this project just as we do.It is nothing less than a struggle for social justice. Come join us!"