Jennifer Brea

I directed Unrest, a Sundance award-winning documentary film: http://unrest.film and am currently developing a few fiction projects. I also co-founded #MEAction, a global, grassroots organization to build community and help a population that is largely disabled, homebound, or bedbound to advocate more effectively. http://meaction.net. I became a filmmaker after becoming suddenly bedridden five years ago, while I was a graduate student in political economy and statistics at Harvard. I am passionate about film, storytelling, community organizing, and the internet as a powerful social space for the disabled; the intersections of health and the environment, health and women's rights, and health and human rights, and how the medical system can do better.