Tues, March 12: OUT OF MY HEAD

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St John School of the Arts / 7:30 pm / Tuesday, March 12, 2019
St John Film Society presents

OUT OF MY HEAD
Full length documentary followed by Q & A with filmmaker Jacki Ochs 

Plus the following two short films: 

THIS IS MY COUNTRY by Kris Samuelson and John Haptas ( 6-minute) 

STATE OF THE UNION by Alan Berliner ( 3-minutes)

“When I say a headache I don’t mean just a headache,
I mean something that would totally brutalize you.”
Joan Didion

OUT OF MY HEAD Synopsis:
A filmmaker, seeking treatment for her daughter’s migraine attacks, discovers a confounding neurological disease and learns why a devastating condition, afflicting nearly a billion people worldwide, remains so deeply misunderstood.

There are few things more frightening than having a child who is sick, who you don’t know how to help and whose illness you don’t understand. That’s what Susanna Styron experienced when her daughter Emma’s spells of blindness and vomiting began at the age of fourteen. Emma’s eventual migraine diagnosis, rather than putting an end to the mystery and confusion, was just the beginning, as mother and daughter embarked on a years-long journey to discover the truth about living with migraine.

Follow this and other stories through thoughtful interviews and animation as experts try to come up with answers for those suffering with headaches. https://outofmyheadfilm.com.

Filmmaker Jacki Ochs
JACKI OCHS is a Producer/Director of documentary film. Her work includes Vietnam: The Secret Agent , Letters Not About Love and Jazz Summit. Among the awards she has received are New York Film Festival premiere, Sundance Special Jury Prize, SXSW Best Feature Documentary, American Film Festival Best New Director. Jacki executive produced Keith Beauchamp’s Emmy nominated Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, and Kristi Zea’s Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray. She is a two time MacDowell Colony and Guggenheim Fellow and Executive Director of Human Arts Association.

FILMMAKERS UNITE
Short films to be screened before the feature film:

THIS IS MY COUNTRY by Kris Samuelson and John Haptas ( 6:43 minute film )
Rising bigotry towards immigrants is spawning fear and anxiety that permeate the lives of children just trying to get through school in the country they call home.

STATE OF THE UNION by Alan Berliner