**Ryan Prior says:**
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Dear Kickstarter Backers,
On behalf of our entire production team, I'd like to thank you
from the bottom of my heart for helping kickstart this filmmaking
journey for us all the way back in June 2013. Making Forgotten Plague
has been a life-changing journey and the absolute thrill of a
lifetime. Filming took place in 9 U.S. states and included scientists
from Columbia, Stanford, and Harvard along with about 40 other
journalists, scientists, doctors, and advocates and about 60 patients.
Our trips so far to promote the film have taken us from the National Press Club to Stanford Medical School to Hollywood's Chinese
Theater. Our co-director/cinematographer Nicole Castillo won an Emmy
Award for her work on the film which was showcased in a journalistic series she produced for Univision entitled "AIDS Without
HIV" Our co-director/producer, Ryan Prior, was awarded
ProHealth's ME/CFS Advocate of the Year and Stanford Medicine's ePatient Scholar award.
Just as we said, for those of you who gave $25 or more, we will give you a free download of the film. The day has come and we're
thrilled to be able to release it to you.
Here it is:
https://vimeo.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Please take some time to watch the film and let us know what you think. We'd also love for you to stage a screening of the film in
your hometown. If you'd like to do that, you can sign up to do so at our website
www.forgottenplague.com
(
http://www.forgottenplague.com).
We've partnered with a company called Tugg which will make the
process to schedule your screening extremely easy.
ME/CFS advocacy has taken off since the launch of our project. We've been thrilled to complete the inaugural edition of our Blue
Ribbon Fellowship program, which gave 3 U.S. medical students the opportunity to study with top specialists. We're also excited to
partner with the visionary new organization #ME Action Network which will help promote Forgotten Plague worldwide and use the film's
power to exponentially increase advocacy, awareness, and education about this terrible disease. We're happy to see new avenues of
research and advocacy continually opening up and we can't wait to
see what role Forgotten Plague will have in continuing to bolster this
social justice cause.
So take a moment to celebrate with us, watch the film, and begin the
next chapter of the Blue Ribbon/Forgotten Plague story!
With much love,
The Entire Forgotten Plague Team