Under Our Skin 1: The Untold Story of Lyme Disease
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Description
Under Our Skin: The Untold Story of Lyme Disease by Andy Abrahams Wilson follows patients, families, and doctors caught inside the bitter fight over Lyme diagnosis and treatment. Pain, misdiagnosis, financial strain, and medical gatekeeping drive the film, but its tension comes from how quickly ordinary life can collapse when symptoms are dismissed or disputed. Instead of offering distance, it stays close to the people living inside that uncertainty, where bodily suffering, contested evidence, and institutional power collide day after day.
Director / Filmmaker
Andy Abrahams Wilson
About the Director / Filmmaker
Andy Abrahams Wilson, producer/director and founder of Open Eye Pictures, builds documentaries from an anthropological and image-led sensibility. Open Eye and ITVS identify him as a cinematographer, photographer, and creative nonfiction filmmaker with training at Northwestern and USC, where he completed a master’s in visual anthropology. Emmy-nominated and twice Oscar-shortlisted, he has worked across independent features, educational media, and public television for broad civic and cultural audiences.
Andy Abrahams Wilson, producer/director and founder of Open Eye Pictures, builds documentaries from an anthropological and image-led sensibility. Open Eye and ITVS identify him as a cinematographer, photographer, and creative nonfiction filmmaker with training at Northwestern and USC, where he completed a master’s in visual anthropology. Emmy-nominated and twice Oscar-shortlisted, he has worked across independent features, educational media, and public television for broad civic and cultural audiences.
Topic
Infections, Chronic Illnesses, Pain Management
Who It’s Best For
Best matched to viewers trying to make sense of persistent, hard-to-explain illness through the lens of misdiagnosis, medical conflict, and patient advocacy. A useful second audience is anyone examining how institutions respond when symptoms resist neat categories.
Production Company / Studio
Open Eye Pictures
Approach
Patient testimony and allegations of institutional failure form the backbone of its Lyme disease argument. Opposition voices appear, but the documentary is plainly polemical, using investigative cues and personal suffering to press a contested medical claim.
Duration
104 Minutes
Year
2008
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