Fredericksburg, May 10, 2018 - THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM ‘Out Of My Head’, A filmmaker, seeking treatment for her daughter's migraine attacks, discovers a confounding neurological disease and learns why a devastating condition, afflicting nearly a billion people worldwide, remains so deeply misunderstood, is playing at Regal Cinemas Fredericksburg 14 on June 9, 2018 at 7:30 pm. The film is brought to Fredericksburg by a group of individuals who are using a new crowd-sourcing platform called Theatrical On Demand®. Theatrical-On-Demand® allows movie-goers to bring the movies they want to watch to their nearby local theater with no rental cost and no risk.
Special event screening tickets are available now by clicking here https://gathr.us/screening/22985.
This screening of Out Of My Head is being hosted by Jaime Sanders. Jaime has lived with migraine disease for over thirty years and is an avid patient advocate for those living with migraine, headache and cluster diseases as well as mental illness. Her blog, The Migraine Diva, focuses on living a positive life with invisible illnesses. Jaime is also the Migraine Patient Advocacy Coordinator for Global Healthy Living Foundation, a member of CHAMP (Coalition For Headache and Migraine Patients) and HMPF (Headache and Migraine Policy Forum), as well as .
A filmmaker, seeking treatment for her daughter’s migraine attacks, discovers a confounding neurological disease, and learns why a condition so ubiquitous and severe remains deeply misunderstood. We learn that, rather than a terrible headache, migraine is a complex, deeply stigmatized neurological disease afflicting nearly a billion people worldwide. This kaleidoscopic journey, told through interviews, cinema verite, art and animation, explores the history, impact and raw emotion evoked by this unpredictable and confounding condition.
“It’s more complex for a man to be struck down by something that seems so ephemeral as a migraine, but is as disabling as taking a gun out and shooting him, stopping him in his tracks”
The migraine patient is severely underrepresented. Almost 40 million people in the United States have migraine disease, yet access to specialists and treatments is grossly inadequate and unobtainable for many of them. This event is an opportunity to shine a light on a disease that affects a large portion of society. I encourage everyone in the area who is affected by migraine to attend and to bring someone who doesn’t understand the severity of this illness.
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Out Of My Head (2018, United States, Unrated, 90 min.) Directed by Susanna Styron and Produced by Jacki Ochs. Featuring Joan Didion, Emma Larson, Sheila Lineberry. A Gathr Films Release.