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Chicago-made Huntington's doc 'Quicksand' screens April 9
From a press release
2015-03-23
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CHICAGO ( March 18, 2014 ) — Black Cat Productions will be screening the documentary A Mind in Quicksand—Life with Huntington's to promote its May broadcast release to public television stations nationwide. The film will be hosted by Columbia College Chicago at Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, April 9 at 6 p.m. Q&A with Huntington's community members will immediately follow the screening.
"I'm in a better place than most people with Huntington's so I feel I owe it to the HD ( Huntington's disease ) community to be a voice for the disease. It's something I'm able to do — at the moment," said the film's subject, Kim Lile.
At 42, Lile worried that she "was going crazy." Everything around her was becoming undone. Then she learns that she has Huntington's disease, an incurable genetic brain disorder that causes devastating mental and physical deterioration over time. In A Mind in Quicksand—Life with Huntington's, Kim explores the disease's impact on other sufferers, and courageously turns the camera on herself to show what the disease looks and feels like from the inside out. The film is a testament to both the bravery of people living with Huntington's disease and the urgent need for a cure.
A Mind in Quicksand does not shy away from showing the ravages of the illness and presents the raw human struggle to cope with unforeseen circumstances and with the specter of a future of diminishing capabilities.
May is Huntington's Disease Awareness Month.
Music by Stewed Tomatoes and Elizabeth Lamberti, Clayton Brown and Jordan Wankoff, Music supervisor is Martie Marro. Executive producer is Jessie V. Ewing, cinematography by Chris Peppey and Jessie V. Ewing; editing by Sharon Zurek and Justine Gendron; produced by Sharon Zurek and directed by Kim Lile.
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