Sundance prize-winning doc ‘Unrest’ gets UK release |
Sundance prize-winning doc ‘Unrest’ gets UK release
Screen Daily
2017-08-25
Tom Grater, Deputy online editor
London, United Kingdom
Unrest, the feature documentary about ME (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome) which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, will get a UK release in October.
The film chronicles its director’s struggles with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). A PHD student at Harvard, she was suddenly struck by the mysterious illness and left bedridden.
She has since become a filmmaker and activist for ME awareness and was invited to deliver a TED Talk on the subject in June 2016.
Unrest will be independently released by its co-producers, Jennifer Brea’s Shella Films based in Los Angeles, and Lindsey Dryden’s Little By Little Films based in Gloucestershire, UK…
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