Showing posts with label Epidermolysis Bullosa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Epidermolysis Bullosa. Show all posts

Saturday, August 23, 2008

The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off

Jonny Kennedy had had a terrible genetic condition called Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) - which meant that his skin literally fell off at the slightest touch, leaving his body covered in agonizing sores and leading to a final struggle with skin cancer. In his last months Jonny decided to work with filmmaker Patrick Collerton to document his life and death, and the result was a film, first broadcast in March, that was an uplifting, confounding and the provocatively humorous story of a singular man. Not shying away from the grim reality of EB, the film was also a celebration of a life lived to the full. 2004

This is a moving documentary, well worth the effort to locate. It should be available relatively soon from DEBRA (dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa reasearch association)