PROJECT INFORMATION :

A) General project information
B) Specific projects over the next three years

General Project Information:
YourMovieProject concerns itself with the human side of medicine and is headed by neurologist and medical researcher Richard G. Pellegrino. M.D.,Ph.D. The mission of the project is to provide an effective media voice for patients through entertainment. Patients with chronic illnesses have been forced to develop extraordinary solutions to extraordinary challenges. We believe that these people have something to teach all of us.

In particular, we want to develop medical thrillers (books and movies) as well as documentaries that speak to three audiences:
 

Patients with chronic illness. If you take 100 people with any chronic illness, 20% will be doing fine and will find ways to live full lives, 20% will not come out of their room and the rest will be somewhere in the middle. We want to use entertainment and storytelling to allow the first 20% to talk to the last 80%. Friends and families of people with chronic illness.  It is difficult to make your loved ones understand what you are going through without sounding like you're bellyaching. However, entertaining books, movies and documentaries can start a conversation about what life is like in a painless way. Even your 17 year old will agree to sit down and watch a medical thriller, and if the supporting characters with a particular illness are properly crafted, he can learn something about life with that disease. The general public.  How patients are perceived and how they perceive themselves has a great deal to do with their health and sense of well-being and so it is important the public have an accurate understanding of the human side of chronic illness.

YourMovieProject uses a unique process called Trentology ™, or translational entertainment technology, to "translate" the experiences of patients with chronic illnesses into characters that fit into the plots of entertaining medical thrillers. The process is simple. This website, YourMovieProject.com, collects stories from patients about their life with various chronic diseases and disabilities, and uses these true stories to develop accurate composite characters with the illness. These characters are then woven into the plots of commercially viable medical thrillers. These characters must seamlessly integrate into the story line and must be realistic (hence the communication with people who actually live with these conditions) so that our patients can emotionally bond with them. Through their behavior in the story, we hope to illustrate unique solutions to common problems. In this way, we create a common experience for large groups of people and illustrate effective life strategies through these role models. The first project, Point Source, concerns multiple sclerosis, and the book will be available in early May, 2004. The documentary on MS begins shooting in mid March, 2004.  Future projects will touch on other conditions.
 

Specific Projects:

2004
Point Source- A medical thriller incorporating characters with multiple sclerosis, in book and movie form. Book available May, 2004

YourMovieProject.com- An MS documentary due out this fall.

2005
Adverse Event- A medical thriller incorporating characters with cancer that deals with the clinical research process, in book and movie form. Book due out late 2005.

2006
Natural Causes- A medical thriller incorporating characters with chronic pain that deals with the dietary supplement industry. Book due out late 2006.
 

In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Pellegrino is also President of a clinical research site in Hot Springs Arkansas. We invite you to visit our research website, Central Arkansas REsearch.

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