WEST CITY FILMS

“Triumphant! A story that keeps expanding until it seems to fill the universe. Unforgettable.” Four stars – Ty Burr, The Boston Globe

“Jaw-droppingly good. Oscar-worthy. You’ll be hearing a lot about So Much So Fast.” – Geoffrey Kleinman, Air America

“The filmmakers sustain an atmosphere of relentless forward motion. A perceptive portrait of an entire family in revolt against fate.” – Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times

“Director-writers Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan have created a beautiful film that unfolds like a thriller. Profound questions sneak up on you almost without you realising it.” – Clare Morgan, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

“Gripping, intimate, complex and dramatic.” – Claiborne Smith, Sundance Daily Insider

“Filmed with insight, tenderness and even a little black humour, the aptly titled So Much So Fast is concerned with the ‘intimacy of bad luck’, but is truly about love, courage and discovery.” – Simon Horsford, The Telegraph (London)

“Humorous. Impressive. Effortlessly profound.” – Nick Schager, Slant Magazine.

“Elegantly presents both a critique and a celebration of American  ptimism.” Grade A-  Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly

“Compelling.” – Michelle Archer, USA Today 

“Amazing. A 2006 Sundance favorite in the documentary category. It makes the concept of fictional narrative drama seem just a little bit ridiculous.”  Five Stars. – Tim Cogshell, Box Office Magazine

“As intimate a movie as one could imagine. Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan mine such fresh feelings from what might in other hands have been a predictable story. And the Heywoods, for all their trouble, are never objects of pity, but rather of an existential nobility.” – John Anderson, Variety

“A gloriously subversive sense of humor.” – Talha Burki , The Lancet 

“Packed with a striking, full range of emotion. Completely, perfectly balanced in its approach. Grade A.” – Audrey Rock-Richardson, Tooele Transcript-Bulletin 

“One of the most compelling, emotionally resonant films in years.” – David Walker, Willamette Week

The film is no maudlin pity-fest: It’s an absorbing account of fraternal love and obsession…  Condensing years of filming down to 87 minutes makes every cut register with a pang of mortality: The temporal ellipses swipe away precious weeks and months in a flicker.  Stephen makes a brave and candid subject—sometimes hilariously so. Asked what advice he’d give himself if he could go back in time before the diagnosis—the kind of question that begs a wet-eyed response—the nearly immobile Stephen murmurs, “Have more sex on film.” Jim Ridley – The Village Voice

“Both deeply sad and profoundly joyous.” – Rebecca Alvin, The Cape Codder

“Moving and Funny! Dark humor is one of the strongest threads in ”So Much So Fast.” – Rhonda Stewart, Boston Globe 

“Smart and probing. A must-see favorite!” – starred review, Baltimore City Paper

“The humble people doing extraordinary things portrayed in So Much So Fast awed me. As I watched them move their mountains, the superb storytelling sparked new perspectives on my own life, which is a grand feat for a film.” – Agnes Varnum, RealScreen /Agnes Varnum.com

WORLDWIDE BROADCASTS

United States – FRONTLINE, PBS
United Kingdom – BBC STORYVILLE
Germany – ZDF
France – ARTE
Denmark – TV 2
Australia – SBS
Belgium – VRT
Canada – CBC
Israel – YES
Sweden – SVT

THEATRICAL SCREENINGS

MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Riverview Theater

AMHERST, MA
Amherst Cinema

SAN JOSE, CA
Camera 12
CAMBRIDGE, MA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

COLUMBUS, OH
Wexner Center for the Arts

THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Greece

IOWA CITY, IA
Bijou Theater
WORCESTER, MA
Cinema 320
PORTLAND, OR
Hollywood Theater
BOSTON, MA
Coolidge Corner Theater

SALT LAKE CITY
Tower Theater

PARK CITY, UT
Sundance Screening Series

BOSTON
West Newton Cinema
On screen for 9 weeks!

CHICAGO
Gene Siskel Film Center

SAN FRANCISCO
Roxie Cinema

ELDORA, IA
Grand Theater

AUSTIN, TX
Drafthouse Cinemas Lake Creek

CUCALORIS FILM FESTIVAL
Wilmington, NC
FT. WAYNE, IN
Fort Wayne Cinema Center

SALEM, OR
The Salem Cinema

NEW YORK
Village East Theater

FORT WORTH, TX
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

SILVER SPRING, MD
AFI Silver Theater

INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Key Cinemas
AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL IN MOSCOW

VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

ROCHESTER, NY
The Little Theater

HOT SPRINGS, AR
Behind the Mall Cinema

KANSAS CITY, MO
Screenland Theater
LOS ANGELES – IDA DOCUWEEK – HOLLYWOOD
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL
Winner – Best of Festival!
PROVINCETOWN FILM FESTIVAL
CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

LAKE PLACID FILM FORUM
HOT DOCS – TORONTO

MARYLAND FILM FESTVAL
FULL FRAME FILM FESTIVAL

INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON
Audience Award Winner!

NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL
FLORIDA FILM FESTIVAL
WORLD PREMIERE – SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Documentary Competition

From the Academy Award nominated directors of Troublesome Creek, Steven Ascher & Jeanne Jordan, comes a new documentary film, So Much So Fast. A black-humored cliffhanger of romance, guerrilla science and the redefinition of time, So Much So Fast unfolds like a nonfiction novel.  Stephen Heywood finds out he has ALS. His brother Jamie becomes obsessed with finding a cure. And the woman who’s falling in love with Stephen has a decision to make.

***
When asked what he would do differently in the five years since his ALS diagnosis, Stephen Heywood replied, “Have more sex on film.”

What would you do if you were 29 and found you may only have a few years to live? So Much So Fast is about the remarkable events set in motion when Stephen Heywood discovered he had the paralyzing neural disorder ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).

Made over 5 years, So Much So Fast tracks one family’s ferocious response to an orphan disease: the kind of disease drug companies ignore because not there’s not enough profit in curing it. In reaction, and with no medical background, Stephen’s brother Jamie creates a research group and in two years builds it from three people in a basement to a multi-million dollar ALS mouse facility. Finding a drug in time becomes Jamie’s all-consuming obsession.

Stephen’s position is you can’t live every day like it’s your last (since you’d be hung over every morning). Instead, he gets married, has a son and rebuilds two houses. He and his wife Wendy’s laser-like observations of the world and their predicament go to the heart of the fragility of being alive.

Filmmakers Ascher and Jordan were inducted into the stunning world of ALS when Jeanne’s mother, who is featured in their film Troublesome Creek, came down with the disease. Like the Jordan family of Troublesome Creek, the Heywoods are smart, acerbic and capable of upending the cliches of their situation with black humor and real insight.

So Much So Fast makes tangible the bonds between parents and children, husbands and wives, and siblings who are also best friends. We watch as some of these bonds withstand unimaginable pressure and others break. Audiences get an inside view of scientific discovery and what happens when a group of researchers goes up against the scientific establishment.

In So Much So Fast there’s a lot going on under the surface. It’s about the biggest questions of life. The answers are never what you’d expect.

Interviews with the Filmmakers

Washington Post live chat after Frontline Broadcast

Frontline Interview

 

Directors’ Statement

The first film we collaborated on was Troublesome Creek, released in 1996, about Jeannie’s family and their struggle to hold onto their Iowa farm. It was the most personal of subjects, but our hope was that the very specific details of the Jordans’ lives could be made to resonate with universal themes about family, American history, economics, impermanence. We set out to overturn audience expectations about the cliches of Rural Americana, and tell a story people anywhere could see as their own.

As bad luck would have it, So Much So Fast is a logical extension of Troublesome Creek. It begins with Jeannie’s mother, Mary Jane Jordan, who was diagnosed with ALS just as we were finishing the editing of Troublesome Creek. At that time there were no drugs or treatments for ALS, and no reason to harbor even a shred of hope. The fact that ALS (one of many orphan diseases) is still fatal represents one of the deepest failures of the profit-driven pharmaceutical industry.

We had been looking for a way to express the jaw-dropping impossibility of ALS through film, and in 2000 we came across the Heywoods’ story in a New Yorker profile by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Weiner (Jon recently published My Brother’s Keeper, a full length book about the Heywoods and their foundation.)

In the Heywoods we saw another chance to explicate universals in the particulars of one family’s story. There is tremendous vitality in the multiple threads of their experience. Robert Warshow’s essays on the gangster and the westerner capture something of the duality between Jamie and Stephen. Jamie is a provocateur, whose enormous ambition and in-your-face style make it possible create his organization from thin air and build it to the small empire it becomes. But he pays a price for it. Meanwhile Stephen’s artistic, self-contained charisma gives him an acceptance of his situation and a kind of moral force reminiscent of a reluctant gunslinger. In Troublesome Creek, westerns were a kind of touchstone for Russ Jordan. For the Heywood brothers, the constant in their lives is video games – like Diablo II and Starcraft.

For us, one of the most powerful aspects of documentary filmmaking is the ability to capture the passage of time, and reveal how real life plays out in its complexity over a span of years. We look for the layers of meaning in big moments and everyday events.

As filmmakers we share a love for the inherent drama of documentary and the lucid, documentary-like moments in dramas. So Much So Fast is a documentary, but we hope audiences will experience it in some ways as a nonfiction novel.

— Steven Ascher & Jeanne Jordan

The last scenes in the film were filmed in July 2004. After that, Stephen finished a beautiful renovation of the carriage house seen in the film. He took part in an experimental program using sensors implanted in his brain to control a computer cursor with his thoughts. He made significant contributions to the development of this remarkable technology, called BrainGate, which may someday provide patients with degenerative diseases unprecedented ability to interact with the world.

Click here to see video of Stephen working on BrainGate.

In 2006, Ben and Sherie had a daughter, Elliot Isabel. Both Alex (Stephen and Wendy’s son) and Zoe (Jamie and Melinda’s daughter) turned six.

In November of 2006, the tube of Stephen’s respirator detached accidentally during the night, causing cardiac arrest. He died on Sunday, November 26 at the age of 37. His last act was to donate his kidneys for transplant. Until the last, he lived a full life every day with Wendy and Alex.

The Heywoods are strengthened by the support they’ve received from far and wide.

The foundation is now the ALS Therapy Development Institute. They have partnered with the MDA in a major new research initiative to examine the causes of ALS at the most fundamental level. More information can be found at www.ALS.net.

****

For Interviews and Updates from the Heywoods click here.

*****
November 2006
From Jamie:

Dear Friends,

Friday morning at 5:30 I received the call from Wendy that I have gone to bed each night hoping would never happen.  I could tell from the sound of her voice that this one was different.  When I arrived, their small street was lit up with the flashing lights of two fire trucks, an ambulance, and the police.  Going inside past Wendy holding Alex in her arms and into his bedroom I found Stephen.  His vent had disconnected, his lips were blue and despite aggressive CPR he looked peaceful perhaps with even a slight trace of a smile. I rode to Newton Wellesley with the ambulance driver who also grew up in Newton and remembered Stephen from other visits.

Between his caregiver Nicole and the EMT’s, Stephen had CPR for over 40 min.  I don’t know if it is because he forgot that he was sick or because his heart is larger and stronger than any I have ever known but it restarted.  You could actually see the disbelief on the ER team’s faces.  You also knew that they were not sure this was a good thing because Stephen’s eyes were not responding at all.  They wanted to make sure we understood how bad it was but they missed Stephen’s point as people often do.

Stephen would tell a joke about wanting to die a heroic death.  It went something like this.  There would be a fire and he would save someone but it would have be a slow fire with ramps because he would be in a wheelchair.  I think he found a way to do that.

There is no blood flow to either hemisphere of his brain and he has no EEG signals.  Stephen is gone, left in our hearts and in the relationships and structures he has built. Stephen was in command of his world and his body at all times and never lived life on anything other than his own terms.  Thursday night before bed he sent an email to Ben saying how wonderful our Thanksgiving was.  It was a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Stephen has kept his body alive so that his family and friends could gather and say goodbye.  As Stephen indicated he wanted to he will donate his organs to others to give them a chance at the amazing years of life that he gave us. Sometime over the next few days if it is possible some very lucky person will get his heart.

So he found his slow fire and it has ramps.

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So Much So Fast Press Notes

SO MUCH SO FAST

a film by

Steven Ascher & Jeanne Jordan

directors of
TROUBLESOME CREEK
( Oscar nominee and winner of
Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award)

87 minutes

A West City Films production

Synopsis

From Oscar-nominated directors Steven Ascher & Jeanne Jordan
(Troublesome Creek) comes a black-humored cliffhanger of romance,
guerrilla science and the redefinition of time.

So Much So Fast is about the remarkable events set in motion
when Stephen Heywood discovers he has ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease)
and his brother Jamie becomes obsessed with finding a cure.

*********
When asked what he would do differently in the five years since his ALS diagnosis, Stephen Heywood replied, “Have more sex on film.”

What would you do if you were 29 and found you may only have a few years to live? So Much So Fast is about the remarkable events set in motion when Stephen Heywood discovered he had the paralyzing neural disorder ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).

Made over 5 years, So Much So Fast tracks one family’s ferocious response to an orphan disease: the kind of disease drug companies ignore because not there’s not enough profit in curing it.

In reaction, and with no medical background, Stephen’s brother Jamie creates a guerilla-science research group and in two years builds it from three people in a basement to a multi-million dollar ALS mouse facility, the largest anywhere. Finding a drug in time becomes Jamie’s all-consuming obsession.

Stephen’s position is you can’t live every day like it’s your last (since you’d be hung over every morning). Instead, he gets married, has a son and rebuilds two houses. He and his wife Wendy’s laser-like observations of the world and their predicament go to the heart of the fragility of being alive.

Oscar-nominated filmmakers Ascher and Jordan were inducted into the stunning world of ALS when Jeanne’s mother, who is featured in their film Troublesome Creek, came down with the disease. Like the Jordan family of Troublesome Creek, the Heywoods are smart, acerbic and capable of upending the cliches of their situation with black humor and real insight.

So Much So Fast makes tangible the bonds between parents and children, husbands and wives, and siblings who are also best friends. We watch as some of these bonds withstand unimaginable pressure and others break. Audiences get an inside view of scientific discovery and what happens when a group of researchers goes up against the scientific establishment.

In So Much So Fast, there’s a lot going on under the surface. It’s about the biggest questions of life. The answers are never what you’d expect.

 

Directors’ Statement

The first film we collaborated on was Troublesome Creek, released in 1996, about Jeannie’s family and their struggle to hold onto their Iowa farm. It was the most personal of subjects, but we blended Jeannie’s insider’s perspective and Steve’s view as an outsider. Our hope was that the very specific details of the Jordans’ lives could be made to resonate with universal themes about family, American history, economics, impermanence. We set out to overturn audience expectations about the cliches of Rural Americana, and tell a story people anywhere could see as their own.

As bad luck would have it, So Much So Fast is a logical extension of Troublesome Creek. It begins with Jeannie’s mother, Mary Jane Jordan, who was diagnosed with ALS just as we were finishing the editing of Troublesome Creek. At that time there were no drugs or treatments for ALS, and no reason to harbor even a shred of hope. The fact that ALS (one of many orphan diseases) is still fatal represents a deep failure of the profit-driven pharmaceutical industry.

We had been looking for a way to express the jaw-dropping impossibility of ALS through film, and in 2000 we came across the Heywoods’ story in a New Yorker profile by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Weiner (Jon then published My Brother’s Keeper, a full-length book about the Heywoods and the early research of their ALS Therapy Development Foundation.)

In the Heywoods we saw another chance to explicate universals in the particulars of one family’s story. There is tremendous vitality in the multiple threads of their experience. Robert Warshow’s essays on the gangster and the westerner capture something of the duality between Jamie and Stephen. Jamie is a provocateur, whose enormous ambition and brash, in-your-face style make it possible build the foundation up from nothing to the small empire it becomes. But he pays a price for it. Meanwhile Stephen’s artistic, self-contained charisma gives him an acceptance of his situation and a kind of moral force reminiscent of a reluctant gunslinger. In Troublesome Creek, westerns were a kind of touchstone for Russ Jordan. For the Heywood brothers, the constant in their lives is video games – like Diablo II and Starcraft.

For us, one of the most powerful aspects of documentary filmmaking is the ability to capture the passage of time, and reveal how real life plays out in its complexity over a span of years. We look for the layers of meaning in big moments and everyday events.

As filmmakers we share a love for the inherent drama of documentary and the lucid, documentary-like moments in dramas. So Much So Fast is a documentary, but we hope audiences will experience it in some ways as a nonfiction novel.

— Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan

 

Biographies

STEVEN ASCHER AND JEANNE JORDAN have been making documentary and fiction films for over 20 years. Their first collaboration, Troublesome Creek: a Midwestern, won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance, the Prix Italia, Peabody and IDA awards and was nominated for an Academy Award. They have collaborated on Emmy-winning portraits of artists, including Chuck Close and Shimon Attie. Jordan’s work includes Eyes on the Prize, films for American Playhouse and she is currently series producer of PBS’s Postcards From Buster. Ascher’s directing credits include many films for television, TV spots and the drama, Del and Alex. He is author of The Filmmaker’s Handbook, a bestselling text.

Composer SHELDON MIROWITZ has scored more than fifty film and TV projects and hundreds of commercials. He’s a three-time Emmy Award nominee for best music, including the seven-part series Columbus and The Age of Discovery, the six-part series Evolution, and the A&E movie The Nazi Officer’s Wife. Steve and Jeannie have had an ongoing collaboration with Sheldon since his brilliant work on the score for Troublesome Creek.

 

Appearing in the film:

STEPHEN HEYWOOD
A designer-builder and video game fanatic once described as “a hunky, poet-carpenter guy.” Diagnosed with ALS at 29. Moved back to his hometown near Boston ( Newton, MA), married Wendy and became father of Alex at 30.

JAMIE HEYWOOD
Stephen’s two-year older brother. Entrepreneur with no training in biology who quit his job to start the ALS Therapy Development Foundation. Married to Melinda and father of Zoe.

BEN HEYWOOD
Youngest and tallest Heywood brother. Built a house with Stephen and then went to Los Angeles to be a producer. Torn between his west-coast life and being with Stephen back in Boston. Marries Sherie Yearton during the making of the film.

WENDY STACY HEYWOOD
Stephen’s wife and mother of Alex. Born and raised in Missouri, she had her first date with Stephen after his early symptoms had appeared. A great mimic who can find the humor in almost anything.

MELINDA MARSH HEYWOOD
Jamie’s wife and mother of Zoe. A belly dancer and circus performer with a doctorate in medieval French literature. Star of the Heywood’s annual Bellydance Fundraiser.

PEGGY HEYWOOD
Mother of the Heywood boys. Works with Stephen on construction projects and keeps things running with childcare and anything that needs doing. Queen of multi-tasking and power naps.

JOHN HEYWOOD
Father, born in England. Teaches automotive engineering at MIT and passed down a love of engineering to his sons. Takes on all the work he can to pay for things insurance doesn’t.

ROBERT BONAZOLI
He and Stephen were friends in high school and, as co-founder, he signed on to build the Foundation up from zero. As Deputy Director, Robert manages the people side of the Foundation.

KEN THOMPSON
Lab manager. Stephen’s best friend from childhood who came to work in the mouse lab when Stephen got sick. Ken’s a key part of video game night. He and Stephen regularly go out to the movies and raise their kids together.

THE STAFF OF THE ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
ALS TDI began with a bold attempt at using gene therapy to cure ALS. Remaining focused on ALS patients alive today (and the time pressure implied by that) they created a streamlined process to test potential ALS drugs in mice on a large scale, and a public information program on cutting-edge therapies. Their drug testing has focused primarily on FDA approved drugs (that can be given to patients immediately if found to be effective) and they remain committed to an open science model of sharing results directly though the web with patients and researchers.  In 2006, they began a new research initiative with the MDA.. More information can be found at www.ALS.net.

ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
Also known as Motor Neuron Disease (MND). A neurodegenerative disease that causes paralysis by killing the nerves cells that control motion and movement. A few hundred thousand people worldwide have it at any time (including Stephen Hawking). Average life expectancy after diagnosis is 2-5 years, which may be extended for patients choosing to go on a respirator. Stephen, like 90% of people with ALS, has the sporadic form, for which no cause or cure is known (this form is not inheritable).

 

Credits (for full credits, click here)

Produced, Directed and Written by: Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan

Cinematography: Steven Ascher

Editing: Jeanne Jordan

Music: Sheldon Mirowitz

A production of West City Films in association with WGBH/FRONTLINE, ZDF/ARTE, BBC Storyville with support from TV2/Danmark.

Produced with support from: Michael W. McCarthy Foundation, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, LEF Foundation, , Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, Wellspring Foundation.

Produced, directed and written by
STEVEN ASCHER & JEANNE JORDAN

Cinematography
STEVEN ASCHER

Editing
JEANNE JORDAN

Music
SHELDON MIROWITZ

Guitar
DUKE LEVINE

Vocals
ARDYS FLAVELLE

Composer’s Assistant
ANDREAS BJORCK

Best Boy
JORDAN ASCHER

Family Photographs
JOHN HEYWOOD

Family Movies
WENDY HEYWOOD, WENDY WILSON

Sound at first belly dance
JOHN OSBORNE

Scientific Illustration
JENNIFER FAIRMAN

Transcripts
MULBERRY STUDIO, JANICE STEVENS

Title Design
DONNA MEGQUIER, PATRICK GASPAR

Color Correction & Online
MICHAEL AMUNDSON

Online Edit
THE OUTPOST

Re-recording Mixer
RICHARD BOCK

Digital-to-35mm Transfer
ALPHA CINE LAB

Producers’ Representative
LOUISE ROSEN

Legal Counsel
SANDRA FORMAN

Fiscal Agent
CALLIOPE FILM RESOURCES

SPECIAL THANKS:
Dan Algrant
Bill and Cat Anderson
Alexandra Anthony
Dick Bartlett
Donita Boddie
Joan Brooks
Robert Brown, M.D., D.Phil.
Christina Cahill
David Carbone
Peter Carey
Peggy and Stanley Charren
Stephanie Clipper
Randall Conrad
Merit Cudkowicz, M.D., M.Sc.
Christine Dall
Tory Davis
Victoria Garvin Davis
Fran & Jan Delaney
David & Melody Dorfman
Christopher Eckman
Jan Egleson
Natatcha Estebanez
Gaiam
Ardys Flavelle
Rev. Miriam Gelfer
Jim Garrels
Alexa Goldstein
Steven Gullans, Ph.D.
Grace Episcopal Church
Ruth Hammell
Rick & Marlene Guttenberg
Chantal Kovach
Bob Hawk
Lyda Kuth
Liz Kramer
Donna Langman
Charles Ladlow
Steve & Martha Lewis
Paola Leone, Ph.D.
Ian MacConnell
Christopher Lydon
Brian McCarthy
Massachusetts General Hospital
Patrick C. McCarthy
Patrick M. McCarthy
Peter & Hilary McGhee
Carolyn McGoldrick
Rob Misasi
Duncan Moss
Robb Moss
Peter Mueller
Bill & Jennifer Nichols
John Osborne
Elise Pettus
Charles and Lucille Plotz
Robert Rodnitsky, M.D.
Jeffrey Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Martin Schoeller
Kim Schmidt
Jonathan Schwartz
Susanne Simpson
Brad Snodgrass
Robert & Kristina Snyder
Society for Neuroscience
Lisa Stewart
Charles and Sarah Stuart
Talamas Company
Shaleen Tethal
Jim & Susan Tobey
Ken Thompson
Underworld : Karl Hyde, Rick Smith & Darren Emerson
Geoff Jukes, V2 Music, Sherlock Holmes, BMG, Chrysalis
Andria Winther
Jonathan Weiner
Rodney Yee

The staff of the ALS Therapy Development Institute

For WGBH:
PETER MCGHEE
JOHN WILLIS
MARGARET DRAIN
DAVID FANNING
MICHAEL SULLIVAN

For ZDF/ ARTE:
ANNE EVEN

For BBC Storyville:
NICOLAS FRASER

Produced with support from:
MICHAEL W. MCCARTHY FOUNDATION

RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY

LEF FOUNDATION

SHELBY CULLOM DAVIS FOUNDATION

WELLSPRING FOUNDATION

A production of
WEST CITY FILMS

In association with
WGBH/FRONTLINE, ZDF, ARTE, BBC
with support from
TV2/Danmark

Released theatrically by
BALCONY RELEASING

SO MUCH SO FAST
©MMVI, West City Films, Inc.