{"id":54842,"date":"2017-08-26T19:34:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T19:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54842"},"modified":"2017-08-26T19:34:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T19:34:23","slug":"sundance-prize-winning-doc-unrest-gets-uk-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54842","title":{"rendered":"Sundance prize-winning doc &#8216;Unrest&#8217; gets UK release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/news\/sundance-prize-winning-doc-unrest-gets-uk-release\/5121686.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Sundance prize-winning doc &#8216;Unrest&#8217; gets UK release<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.screendaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Screen Daily<\/a><br \/>\n2017-08-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomsmovies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tom Grater<\/strong><\/a>, Deputy online editor<br \/>\n<em>London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/news\/sundance-prize-winning-doc-unrest-gets-uk-release\/5121686.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net\/Pictures\/480xany\/2\/0\/6\/1268206_unrest_889269.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrest.film\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><small>Unrest<\/small><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrest.film\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unrest<\/a><em>, the feature documentary about ME (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome) which premiered at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival, will get a UK release in October.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The film chronicles its director\u2019s struggles with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myalgic encephalomyelitis<\/a> (ME). A PHD student at Harvard, she was suddenly struck by the mysterious illness and left bedridden.<\/p>\n<p>She has since become a filmmaker and activist for ME awareness and was invited to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jen_brea_what_happens_when_you_have_a_disease_doctors_can_t_diagnose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deliver a TED Talk<\/a> on the subject in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Unrest will be independently released by its co-producers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferbrea.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Brea\u2019s<\/a> Shella Films based in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles<\/a>, and Lindsey Dryden\u2019s Little By Little Films based in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloucestershire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gloucestershire, UK<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/news\/sundance-prize-winning-doc-unrest-gets-uk-release\/5121686.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unrest,&#8221; the feature documentary about ME (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome) which premiered at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival, will get a UK release in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,2039,8],"tags":[27474,27477,27475,27476],"class_list":["post-54842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-chronic-fatigue-syndrome","tag-jennifer-brea","tag-myalgic-encephalomyelitis","tag-screen-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54843,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54842\/revisions\/54843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}