New migraine documentary

A new documentary is out about the impact of migraine on people’s lives.  One of the people who worked on the film, Marni Holmes, stopped by the blog here and left this comment:

We have just released a self-help documentary called Life and Migraine. It is a good resource for people who suffer from chronic headache or people who don’t to help understand the condition. Check out Kerrie’s review at The Daily Headache and check out the site!

Thanks, Marni!  Now I’ve only seen the trailer, not the movie itself.  It’s only available in the USA at the moment, but it should be released internationally soon.  Purchasing info is here.

The documentary follows a fictional character through a migraine attack, and also includes interviews with 13 migraineurs, both men and women.  That’s great because, as the movie website points out, The stories these people tell are striking not only in their differences, but also in their surprising similarities.  And both those points are important to understand.

From what I’ve seen so far it looks great.  It looks like it makes a lot of great points, one of these being that many many people are either misdiagnosed or have never bothered to be diagnosed, and so are living with symptoms that they might be able to do something about.

The documentary has two versions – 27 minutes and 55 minutes.  The shorter one might be the way to go if you want to show a non-migraineur friend.

You can read the World Headache Alliance review, and the review mentioned above at The Daily Headache.  View the trailer of Life and Migraine here.