About the Projects

3 Documentaries – 10 Year Span of Families’ Living With Lupus

Inspired by filmmaker Michael Apted’s 7Up series, I decided to follow the lives of people living with lupus, a life threatening chronic illness, spanning ten years. A disease that I was diagnosed with in 1996.

“Living Through Dying” weaves in new footage from “Stories of Lupus” (1997) and “For Life” (2000) to reveal the struggles of dealing with the unknown and the deep changes it’s made within these three families living lupus, a chronic and life threatening illness.

With Gratitude

Special thanks to the Robert Wood Johnson IV Charitable Trust for a major grant, New York State Council for the Arts for a finishing grant and David Raymond for a generous gift to support the making of “Living Through Dying”.

A deep heart-felt thanks to: The Darrow Family, The Grant Henry Family and The Handy Family and to the hundreds of people who gave their time and love to help create these documentaries over the past ten years.