Under Our Skin 2: Emergence
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Description
Under Our Skin 2: Emergence by Anthony Abrahams Wilson returns to the Lyme crisis years later, revisiting patients from the original film while widening the frame to new research, medical conflict, and the spread of the disease itself. Hope enters more often here, but it never erases the controversy around diagnosis, treatment, and whose evidence gets believed. By reconnecting personal recovery with systemic failure, the sequel makes clear that the story did not end with the first film; it deepened, widened, and kept costing people years.
Director / Filmmaker
Andy Abrahams Wilson
About the Director / Filmmaker
Andy Abrahams Wilson, producer/director and cinematographer, leads Open Eye Pictures, a nonprofit devoted to creative educational media. Trained in anthropology, journalism, and cinema, he holds a master’s in visual anthropology and treats moving images as a way to connect people, places, and ideas. His career spans independent documentaries, PBS, HBO, and community-centered media, with a visual approach rooted less in commentary than in observation, encounter, and the bridge between different worlds.
Andy Abrahams Wilson, producer/director and cinematographer, leads Open Eye Pictures, a nonprofit devoted to creative educational media. Trained in anthropology, journalism, and cinema, he holds a master’s in visual anthropology and treats moving images as a way to connect people, places, and ideas. His career spans independent documentaries, PBS, HBO, and community-centered media, with a visual approach rooted less in commentary than in observation, encounter, and the bridge between different worlds.
Topic
Infections, Chronic Illnesses, Pain Management
Who It’s Best For
Made for viewers already wrestling with chronic Lyme questions, contested diagnoses, or the fallout of feeling unheard once standard explanations stop making sense. It also fits those interested in the politics that shape which patient stories get taken seriously.
Production Company / Studio
Open Eye Pictures
Approach
Built as a follow-up investigation, the sequel revisits earlier subjects while widening the frame to policy disputes and newer evidence. The report-back structure keeps the stance openly aligned with patient-advocacy claims rather than detached reassessment.
Duration
64 Minutes
Year
2014
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