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This is being posted on behalf of Natalie Boulton & Josh Biggs, director/producers of Voices from the Shadows:
Voices from the Shadows
Voices from the Shadows is a deeply moving and compassionate film that helps others understand the daily reality for severe ME sufferers: the disbelief, trivialisation, ignorance and complacent self-assurance of ill-informed professions causing such a devastating impact on ill patients.
It is an act of witness by two people closely involved, and shows how five British families have struggled against the odds, with supporting evidence by three ME specialists who expose the deception and confusion which has led to tragedy.
This is a valuable tool everyone can use to show to family, friends, co-workers, doctors, healthcare workers and MPs, to help others understand what they are living with and encourage support in bringing about change.
"Voices" won the Audience Best International Documentary Award at the California Mill Valley film festival in 2011, where it was given full support by Dr Montoya from Stanford Medical school.
The trailer can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZG4QVkO2k
This film is now available on PAL DVDs to purchase from the USA and UK as well as many other countries - from the website:
http://voicesfromtheshadowsfilm.co.uk/shop-dvds/
These PAL DVDs can be viewed on computers and on some multi-format DVD players in the USA and Canada, and on both DVD players and computers in Europe, Australia and NZ.
Please help by distributing this email to friends, family, colleagues and ME charities.
Reviews of the film:
"Voices from the Shadows is the most important and significant film on pediatric ME that has ever been produced." Prof. Leonard Jason
"I think the film was powerful and it should be actually part of medical curricula in medical schools in the US (it) shows how medical arrogance combined with narrow vision knowledge can be so toxic and can bring more suffering to a group of patients that are already suffering at deep levels." Dr Montoya Stanford Medical School.
"Voices from the Shadows is a poignant documentary, which unveils the reality of people with severe ME/CFS and their carers We hope that this type of initiative helps to promote a revision of preconceptions about ME/CFS in health researchers and professionals, and to bring renewed interest for research in this field, particularly in light of mounting biomedical research evidence in ME/CFS." Dr Eliana Lacerda CFS/ME Observatory at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Natalie Boulton & Josh Biggs
Voices from the Shadows
Voices from the Shadows is a deeply moving and compassionate film that helps others understand the daily reality for severe ME sufferers: the disbelief, trivialisation, ignorance and complacent self-assurance of ill-informed professions causing such a devastating impact on ill patients.
It is an act of witness by two people closely involved, and shows how five British families have struggled against the odds, with supporting evidence by three ME specialists who expose the deception and confusion which has led to tragedy.
This is a valuable tool everyone can use to show to family, friends, co-workers, doctors, healthcare workers and MPs, to help others understand what they are living with and encourage support in bringing about change.
"Voices" won the Audience Best International Documentary Award at the California Mill Valley film festival in 2011, where it was given full support by Dr Montoya from Stanford Medical school.
The trailer can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZG4QVkO2k
This film is now available on PAL DVDs to purchase from the USA and UK as well as many other countries - from the website:
http://voicesfromtheshadowsfilm.co.uk/shop-dvds/
These PAL DVDs can be viewed on computers and on some multi-format DVD players in the USA and Canada, and on both DVD players and computers in Europe, Australia and NZ.
Please help by distributing this email to friends, family, colleagues and ME charities.
Reviews of the film:
"Voices from the Shadows is the most important and significant film on pediatric ME that has ever been produced." Prof. Leonard Jason
"I think the film was powerful and it should be actually part of medical curricula in medical schools in the US (it) shows how medical arrogance combined with narrow vision knowledge can be so toxic and can bring more suffering to a group of patients that are already suffering at deep levels." Dr Montoya Stanford Medical School.
"Voices from the Shadows is a poignant documentary, which unveils the reality of people with severe ME/CFS and their carers We hope that this type of initiative helps to promote a revision of preconceptions about ME/CFS in health researchers and professionals, and to bring renewed interest for research in this field, particularly in light of mounting biomedical research evidence in ME/CFS." Dr Eliana Lacerda CFS/ME Observatory at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Natalie Boulton & Josh Biggs