Cinema Libre announced this past week that Nov. 10 will be the DVD debut date for documentary filmmaker Jerri Sher’s Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain.
The issue of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the subject of Sher’s film, which begins with the obvious point of impact, combat vets, and key that is the experiences of former Special Forces Green Beret and explosives expert Andrew Marr, who returned home from his last deployment in Afghanistan suffering from the effects of countless explosions and head trauma.
The pattern set in, drugs — at one point 13 different drugs — and drinking just to cope; just to get through the day. Marr was in a hopeless situation, a place where a lot of combat vets end up, keep going with this pattern … or kill themselves. And then he got help.
Sher explores the over two million head-traumas that occur annually, not just combat veterans, but in sports — Super Bowl MVD Mark Rypien relates his experiences — and, of course, traumatic accidents; first responders … it’s a long list. What can be done? Well, as it turns, much is being done to treat TBI that doesn’t involve pain killers.
Enter the likes of Dr. Bob Sammons, the chief medical officer for TMS Solutions, and Dr. Mark Gordon, who are interviewed in Sher’s film, and who have explored cutting solutions to the problem. Andrew Marr, for example, went from the verge of taking his own life, a life dependent on drugs and alcohol, to being “normal” and functional once again … he got his life back thanks to the research of these researchers.
Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain from Cinema Libre on Nov. 10 is a DVD release that offers hope and direction; insights in the issue of TBI …
Bonus features include extended interview sessions with Dr. Gordon and Andrew Marr and separate video sessions with filmmaker Jerri Sher and Jerri Sher with Dr. H. William Song.
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