Director: Jennifer Brea

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Biography: Jennifer Brea is an American documentary filmmaker and activist. Her debut feature, Unrest, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and received the US Documentary Special Jury Award For Editing. Brea also co-created a virtual reality film which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. She was a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University, studying political economy and statistics, before getting sick. She earned her AB in Politics from Princeton University, and is a TED Fellow. Prior, she was a freelance journalist in China and East and Southern Africa. Jen was born in Long Island, New York, raised in Central Florida, and now divides her time between New Jersey and California. She is married to Omar Wasow, co-founder of BlackPlanet and a professor at Princeton. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Brea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Unrest

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.
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