In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills more than five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers were given unprecedented, real-time access to a clinical trial – only the sixth-ever embryonic stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate journey with the patients and scientists who put themselves on the line to be first.
- Year2022
- Runtime91 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorLisa Hepner and Guy Mossman
- ScreenwriterLisa Hepner
- ProducerJonathan Formica
- Executive ProducerMarla Oringer, Amy Rapp
- EditorSusan Metzger, Scott Stevenson
- ComposerMiriam Cutler
In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills more than five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers were given unprecedented, real-time access to a clinical trial – only the sixth-ever embryonic stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate journey with the patients and scientists who put themselves on the line to be first.
- Year2022
- Runtime91 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorLisa Hepner and Guy Mossman
- ScreenwriterLisa Hepner
- ProducerJonathan Formica
- Executive ProducerMarla Oringer, Amy Rapp
- EditorSusan Metzger, Scott Stevenson
- ComposerMiriam Cutler