Jennifer Brea’s wonderfully honest and humane portrayal asks us to rethink the stigma around an illness that affects millions. Jennifer Brea is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Like a modern-day Odysseus, she travels by Skype into a forgotten community, crafting intimate portraits of four other families suffering similarly.
Often confined by her illness to the private space of her bed, Jennifer connects with others around the globe. In this story of love and loss, newlyweds Jennifer and Omar search for answers as they face unexpected obstacles with great heart. When doctors tell her it’s “all in her head,” she picks up her camera as an act of defiance and brings us into a hidden world of millions that medicine abandoned. Host Liz Mcintyre, Producer Lindsey Dryden, Omar Wasow and Director Jennifer Brea during the Q&A of the Unrest premiere at Picturehouse Central London. Jennifer is twenty-eight years-old, working on her PhD at Harvard, and months away from marrying the love of her life when a mysterious fever leaves her bedridden. Jennifer Brea’s Sundance award-winning documentary, Unrest, is a personal journey from patient to advocate to storyteller. A co-production between Shella Films and Little By Little Films. directed by Jennifer Brea the scripted feature No Light and No Land Anywhere by writer/director Amber Sealey with executive producer Miranda July.
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