Hi My name is Dan Shannon, I am the director of this documentary.  Not so long ago my daughter was diagnosed with T1D just before her 16th birthday, and for the next 5 years, I followed her and other teens…this is their story.

This is not your typical lab coat medical film: Part road movie, part coming-of-age story, shot in Canada, USA, and Ecuador, it may just change the way you view the issue of diabetes. More importantly, if you know someone dealing with this, you may be in a position to really help them, it has proven itself as a tool to break the silence of teens who often times have developed knowingly or not, a destructive attitude towards themselves.

I have learned one thing making this film, people with T1D feel isolated and don’t  talk easily. We have screened it in festivals, in hospitals and in small group settings the result is always the same: young people feel all of a sudden their reality is vindicated, what they are going though, others are too. It is a great tool for parents with  T1D kids,  we have received hundreds of emails and calls about kids and young adults who really opened up after viewing the film.
My takeaway is that growing up with Type 1 requires great family support but also peer support, and teens talking about teens seems to work magic for them.