Read More: Review: 'TransFatty Lives' is a Groundbreaking Documentary About Living With Als I'm a big subscriber to the notion that the show must go on. I've always been that way. In my twenties, toys, girls, music, drugs...they all obsessed me. Yet more than anything, I was into filmmaking. I spent most days trying to develop a feature — I must have written 10 scripts by the time I was 30 — and all the while I was making short films. In the fall of 2004 I noticed an uncontrollable shaking in my legs. By the following year I had been diagnosed with Als — Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). When I got sick and was told I had two years left, it was like "last call." I had to make a film now or know I never would. That’s when "TransFatty Lives" was first born. Ian Dudley...
- 11/20/2015
- by Patrick O'Brien
- Indiewire
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