UNDER OUR SKIN seeks videos showing “Look of Lyme”
When the documentary Under Our Skin was released in 2008, it galvanized Lyme patients to take action in a way nothing had before. Its 2014 sequel, Under Our Skin 2: Emergence, continued the story from first film and broke new ground as well.
Now, Andy Abrahams Wilson and his team from Open Eye Pictures are pulling their focus towards the next film in the series—starting with an initiative called Look of Lyme. Wilson wants individuals to upload short videos about their personal Lyme experience.
Here’s how Open Eye’s website describes it:
Look of Lyme brings your personal stories into the limelight. Videos by you and about you. While the Internet and social media have exploded with homemade videos, there is no place that serves as a repository and archive of the ever-changing and growing landscape of Lyme disease.
Look of Lyme changes that, offering a way to make the personal political by harnessing the power of crowdsourcing and media. The collective story told through up-close, individual portraits will be an effective tool of community building and impacting awareness and change.
As we begin to develop a third film in the Under Our Skin documentary collection, Look of Lyme is also a way we can screen for possible film subjects. After receiving your videos and editing them for brevity, consistency and branding, we’ll present them on an upcoming YouTube channel accessible to millions worldwide. Soon, when you want to show the world what Lyme looks like, it’ll be just a click away.
What I’d like to read is what some people are doing to alleviate the illness that Lyme Disease causes.
Once you have it and living with it, you NEED to know what tips and tricks those folks are trying, in order to feel better. It’s surprising what personal individual home remedies that some folks try, that work…. I rely on people’s hints all the time. However, for Lyme disease, I cannot find one single helpful hint.
Lyme support groups can be a great way to find those tips and tricks, directly from people who have experienced them. If you don’t have an in-person group near you, there a plenty of them online. Here’s a link to state-based Yahoo groups sponsored by LymeDisease.org: https://www.lymedisease.org/get-involved/take-action/find-your-state-group/
There are also dozens (hundreds?) of Lyme support groups on Facebook.
well, i just submitted my video talking after tom grier’s presentation of brain autopsies of midwest folks done by DURAY RESEARCH FOUNDATION with:
LYME, LEWY BODY DEMENSION, MS, parkinson’s, and glioblasoma cancer.
ALL these brains were found with nematode parasitic worms in them. my husband’s worm was cut in half, IT HAD LYME TOO!!
the above sounds very interesting!! happy to participate and educate public/families/friends in this!
BETTY GORDON, IOWA ACTIVIST
Most is simply discussion, discussion, discussion….And all want donations…YET NO ADVANCES FOR CURES!!! I have had it since around 1988….diagnosed 2001..antibiotics. ..then nothing….left hanging in pain.