The Alexandria Film Festival’s online film screening for September is feature documentary The Human Trial, available September 16-30, on Eventive. More than 10 years in the making, the film follows a groundbreaking clinical trial with the patients and researchers seeking a cure for type 1 diabetes. Director Lisa Hepner, who battlestype 1 diabetes, becomes the bridge between two worlds.
Says Hepner who has been waiting 30 years for a cure, “While I was busy trying to outrun my disease it was wreaking havoc on my organs.As our film shows, it doesn’t have to be this way. The cure is no longer an empty promise. There’s reason to be hopeful if we support pioneering research in a meaningful way.
“So many millions of people are touched by diabetes, but because it’s an invisible and stigmatized disease, it’s not taken seriously. I mean 6.7 million people died from diabetes last year alone! I’d like diabetes –both type 1 and type 2 –to be put near the top of the health care agenda. It’s the other pandemic.”
