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Winners of 2017 Science on Screen Film Commission Announced
27 Jul 2017 :
Still, ‘Mending Legends’
Galway Film Centre and CÚRAM, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research into Medical Devices are pleased to announce ‘Bittersweet - The Rise of Diabetes’ as the recipient of the 2017 Science on Screen Commission.

‘Bittersweet - The Rise of Diabetes’ will be a half hour documentary directed by Hugh Rodgers and produced by both Anna Rodgers and Zlata Filipovic of Invisible Thread Films.

The film captures the health system’s fight to treat the rising number of diabetic patients, and warns against this troubling epidemic facing our population, as well as following the personal stories of young people who are living with diabetes and their daily struggle to manage it.

Over the course of the documentary, as a backdrop to these personal stories, we also discover the groundbreaking research and development in pharmacology and biomedical science, capturing the important work of CÚRAM’s Professor David Brayden and his team at UCD’s Veterinary Hospital, where they are developing new ways of delivering insulin to the body.

We also gain an insight into the treatment and management of diabetes through expert clinicians such as Dr. Derek O’Keeffe, Professor Seán Dineen and Mary Clara O’Hara, who run special weekly clinics for young people, helping them to manage their condition.

The award of €35,000 for the Science on Screen commission is funded by CÚRAM, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Medical Device Research in NUI Galway. CÚRAM is helping to establish Ireland as a global hub of research expertise in medical device technology. CÚRAM aims to develop affordable, innovative and transformative device-based solutions to treat global chronic diseases to radically improve the quality of life for patients living with chronic illness.

The Science on Screen commission scheme was first piloted in 2016 with the support of Science Foundation Ireland and resulted in the production of two documentaries ‘Feats Of Modest Valour’ and ‘Mending Legends’. Both documentaries were premiered in November 2016 in Galway and have gone on to screen at the Galway Film Fleadh and are due to be broadcast nationally in 2017.





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