Out of My Head

Q&A filmmakers Susanna Styron & Jacki Ochs with JBFC Programming Director Brian Ackerman

2018. 77 m. Susanna Styron. US. English. Rated NR.

Series

Filmmaker Susanna Styron sets out to investigate the devastating migraine attacks that have her daughter in their grip. As mother and daughter seek understanding and ever-elusive treatment, we follow them into a bizarre and fascinating world populated by doctors, neuroscientists, other migraineurs, and such unexpected characters as Lewis Carroll, Sigmund Freud, and Joan Didion. We learn that, rather than a terrible headache, migraine is a complex, deeply stigmatized neurological disease afflicting nearly a billion people worldwide. This kaleidoscopic journey, told through interviews, cinema verité, art and animation, explores the history, impact and raw emotion evoked by this unpredictable and confounding condition.

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Q&A filmmakers Susanna Styron & Jacki Ochs with JBFC Programming Director Brian Ackerman

Monday, May. 21 2018, 7:00

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Susanna Styron recently wrote and directed the short film House of Teeth, starring Deborah Headwall and Amanda Kristin Nichols. Her career as a director began with Columbia Pictures’ Shadrach, starring Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell (premiered at the Venice Film Festival). Other directing credits include A&E’s 100 Centre Street, created by Sidney Lumet, web series All Downhill from Here, and award-winning documentary 9/12: From Chaos to Community. Susanna teaches screenwriting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Jacki Ochs is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work includes Vietnam: The Secret Agent, Letters Not About Love, and Jazz Summit. She has received the Sundance Special Jury Prize, SXSW Best Feature Documentary, and American Film Festival Best New Director. Jacki executive produced Keith Beauchamp’s Emmy-nominated Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till and Kristi Zea’s Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray. She is a two-time MacDowell Colony and Guggenheim Fellow and Executive Director of Human Arts Association.