''So Much So Fast'' is a
documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
written and directed by Academy Award nominees
Steven Ascher and
Jeanne Jordan. It premiered in competition at the
2006 Sundance Film Festival
The 2006 Sundance Film Festival was held in Utah from January 19 to January 29, 2006. It was held in Park City, with screenings in Salt Lake City; Ogden; and the Sundance Resort. It was the 22nd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival, and the c ...
, and won the Audience Award at the Boston Independent Film Festival.
Synopsis
''So Much So Fast'' documents 5 years in the life of
Stephen Heywood
Stephen Heywood (April 13, 1969 – November 26, 2006) was an American builder and self-taught architect, specializing in the renovation of old houses.
He was diagnosed with ALS in 1998, at the age of 29. He was the subject of '' His Brother ...
who, at 29, discovers he had the paralyzing neurodegenerative disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or—in the United States—Lou Gehrig's disease (LGD), is a rare, Terminal illness, terminal neurodegenerative disease, neurodegenerative disorder that results i ...
(Lou Gehrig's disease).
Determined to live as well as possible, Stephen gets married, has a son and rebuilds two houses. His and his wife Wendy's observations of the world and his disease explore the fragility of life.
The film also tracks his family's response to the drug companies that ignore his disease because there is not enough profit in curing it, and his brother,
Jamie Heywood's, creation of the
ALS Therapy Development Foundation research facility to find a cure for Stephen's disease in time.
External links
Official Film Site*
Film trailerSo Much So Fast
'' Frontline''
2006 films
Documentary films about people with motor neuron disease
2006 documentary films
American documentary films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
English-language documentary films
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