UNDER OUR SKIN was one of six documentaries selected by New York's Tribeca Film Institute for a special January 9th viewing marathon of the most promising films on the 2010 Oscars feature documentary short list.
[caption id="attachment_238" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Amy Tan and Andy Abrahams Wilson at Tribeca Film Festival"][/caption] Last year, when UNDER OUR SKIN had its world premiere (and was an Audience Award finalist) at the Tribeca Film Festival, it was one of three films selected to include a special "Behind the Screens" panel discussion.
On February 28, 2007, the UNDER OUR SKIN film crew interviewed Willy Burgdorfer, Ph.D., M.D., and Scientist Emeritus at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for three hours at his home in Hamilton, Montana. Dr.
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.
In light of the tragic shooting in Illinois, we’d like weigh in on the issue of whether the shooter’s case of late-stage Lyme disease could have caused violent behavior. First, during our four years of research for the film, UNDER OUR SKIN, we interviewed a number of patients who had bouts of “Lyme Rage” before appropriate treatment. While it doesn’t seem that common, it does seem possible.
Benjamin Luft, M.D., Professor of Medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center, discovered that four highly virulent mutations of Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete that causes Lyme disease, may account for the alarming increase in cas
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Five years ago, film director Andy Abrahams Wilson and the Open Eye Pictures crew set up a camera at the “
