Film Festivals

While Oscar Fades, Fargo awards UNDER OUR SKIN top prize

Top LA Times awards critic Tom O'Neil roots for UNDER OUR SKIN

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Can this Lyme disease exposé get under Oscar voters' skins?

by Tom O'Neil, The Envelope, LA Times

Bringing the Lyme film to a theater near you

ifc_center_uos.jpeg Five years ago, film director Andy Abrahams Wilson and the Open Eye Pictures crew set up a camera at the “Hope To Heal” Lyme conference, and asked the attendees to, “Tell us your Lyme disease stories.” Hundreds of heart-wrenching stories later, Andy knew he had stumbled upon one of the most important untold stories in medicine – that of the tragically ignored Lyme disease epidemic.

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UNDER OUR SKIN gallops through the West

park_city.jpg Last week the Salt Lake Film Society screened UNDER OUR SKIN at the Leonardo Theater as part of its series on health films. The theater was filled to capacity, with many viewers attesting that Lyme disease is completely ignored and discounted in Utah. One of the most satisfying results of the screening was that the film provided a venue for building not only awareness but also community.

West Coast Premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival

Mill Valley Film Fest After packed screenings at film festivals on the East Coast, including Tribeca, Silverdocs, Maine, Rhode Island, Martha's Vineyard, Boston, and Berkshires, UOS will have its West Coast premiere at the prestigious Mill Valley Film Festival on Saturday, October 11th at 6:45PM. A second screening will be held on Sunday October 12th at 4PM.

DC area catches Lyme fever

Andy and Mandy at Silverdocs We were thrilled to hear about our second big festival acceptance – SilverDocs International, one of the biggest documentary-only film festivals. This is an important festival because all the major broadcasters and distributors shopping for nonfiction films attend.

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