Unrest
Unrest is a first-person story of resilience in the face of life-altering loss.
- Website
- Official Website
Overview
- Genre
- Personal Doc and Science
- Synopsis
Jennifer, a Harvard PhD student, was signing a check at a restaurant when she found she could not write her own name. Months before her wedding, she became progressively more ill, losing the ability even to sit in a wheelchair. When doctors told her it was "all in her head," she turned her camera on herself and her community, a hidden world of millions confined to their homes bedrooms by ME, commonly called chronic fatigue syndrome.
- Stage
- finished
Credits
- Alysa Nahmias ... Producer
- Jennifer Brea ... Director, Producer, Writer
- Lindsey Dryden ... Producer
- Patricia E. Gillespie ... Producer
- Kim Roberts ... Editor
- Emiliano Battista ... Editor
- Emma Miller ... Associate Producer
- Laura Hess ... Associate Producer
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- Shella Films and Little by Little Films
- Country
- United States
- Prod. Partners
- Shella Films, Little by Little Films, Impact Partners, Chicken & Egg Pictures
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 2017
- Festivals
- Sundance Film Festival, South by Southwest, CPH:Dox, Hot Docs, Sheffield DocFest
- Awards
- Emmy Nomination (2019); Sundance - Documentary Jury Award for Editing (2017)
- Distribution
- ITVS - Independent Lens, Netflix
- Broadcast (Acq.)
- ITVS - Independent Lens
- Language
- English, Danish
Photos
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