SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTARY

Documentary - Lyme: Shifting the Paradigm

LymeTV began production on our ongoing scientific documentary film titled Lyme: Shifting the Paradigm in 2018. During the pandemic we interviewed one expert, & are working on production. We are seeking funds to cover the final production expenses of our film.

This film will highlight the advances in Lyme disease research, as well as the science behind Lyme tests, how the disease & other co-infections disseminate, & the dangers of long-term damage to the host body. In addition, the film will feature the hurdles that many Lyme patients face trying to get proper care & early diagnosis.  All of us at LymeTV are very excited about the incredible interviews & are honored to work with such a great team to share necessary information on the topic.

LOGLINE & SYNOPSIS
EXPERT INTERVIEWS
PRODUCTION TEAM
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LOGLINE

After a tick bite changes her life, a woman goes in search of the latest science about Lyme disease while she struggles to fit together the pieces for a full recovery.

SYNOPSIS

Adina’s life is irreparably shattered when a tick bite in Florida infects her with a handful of diseases. Having never heard of Lyme Disease before it is found in her spinal fluid, she searches for facts online only to discover the many errors & misconceptions about Lyme & other tick-borne diseases. On her path towards treatment, she faces a medical community largely ignorant of her diseases, & quite often apathetic about the growing epidemic. Some doctors dismissively suggest that her cognitive decline simply stems from “depression,” while others are arrogant enough to pronounce her “over-medicalized.” When she moves to Maine, she finds specialists more familiar with the severity of tick-borne disease. Almost five years after contracting Lyme, Adina undergoes additional diagnostic tests to find that the damage extends into her brain & every other part of her nervous system.

Throughout the process, Adina turns the camera on herself & begins recording her journey to warn others about Lyme disease, as well as to show doctors what she undergoes on a daily basis. Adina seeks to uncover the most relevant science on the topic, from genome analysis of the Borrelia spirochete to evidence about the neurological damage caused by the infection. It is this scientific odyssey that gives her hope in the face of repeated setbacks with her treatments. Science is at the heart of her endeavor.

While Adina pursues diagnoses & the recommended IV medication (to which she’s allergic & needs to be admitted into ICU for desensitization), she continues researching her diseases, which stand at the center of a schism in the medical community. Thrown into a world of illness & disability that was not in her life-plan, Adina begins to overcome her disease & grows determined to raise awareness among doctors about the emerging science of Lyme disease. She embarks on a crusade, interviewing dozens of medical professionals along the way, to help shift the medical paradigm.

Lyme: Shifting the Paradigm is a story of personal fortitude in the face of clinical decline, & an investigation of how science & medicine at first resists, & then succumbs, to a revolution in understanding a particular disease.

EXPERT INTERVIEWS

Lyme: Shifting the Paradigm seeks to interview the leading researchers who are advancing cutting-edge knowledge of Lyme disease.  

To Date We Have Interviewed:

Listed in order of interview date.
 
  • Dr. Charles Ray Jones, Pediatric Infectious Disease Clinician
  • Dr. Brian Fallon, Director of the Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia University
  • Dr. Pardis Sabeti, Computational Geneticist at MIT/Harvard
  • Dr. Monica Embers, Associate Professor, Division of Immunology, Tulane National Primate Research Center

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