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Brain injury is often considered a “hidden disability” as the cognitive and other impairments caused by an injury to the brain may have no obvious visible sign. “Because brain injury is invisible, a lot of the time it doesn’t get properly diagnosed, sometimes people think people afflicted with this injury are faking it—or making things up,” says Franklin, a fifteen year survivor of a severe traumatic brain injury incurred in a traffic accident.

As a result of his injury, Franklin suffers from constant fatigue and is prone to ‘distractability’ in noise or movement filled environments. He has been unable to work since his injury, and describes the pressures of working on a documentary as “challenging beyond belief.”

The documentary focuses on the lives of four brain injury survivors—all participating members of the “East Bay Brain Injury Support Group” in California. The survivors featured discuss their deficits and the social challenges they face. “One thing I have learnt about brain injury—no two injuries are the same,” says Franklin.

“In this documentary we hear about the lives of survivors in their own voices, we didn’t set out to make a medical documentary about this disability, we wanted to make sure survivors themselves are able to be heard,” says co-director Lyell Davies.

“There are a lot of brain injury support groups around the country, and we would like to see them screening this video—thereby allowing survivors to see themselves in a positive, realistic and empowering way,” Davies adds.

For more information about this documentary contact: info@braininjurydialogues.org

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