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Screening of Sometimes I Shake
November 9, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
I AM ALS and People People Media are excited to invite you to a special virtual screening of the feature-length documentary Sometimes I Shake, followed by a live Q&A with the film team, and ALS community members. The event will be on November 9th at 8 pm ET.
Sometimes I Shake is a moving documentary about music professor Dan Nelson who lived with and then died from Parkinson’s and ALS. It’s also about so much more. It’s about love, friendship, flaws, fear, joy, sadness. It’s about the moments that make us smile without restrain, question our choices, and collapse in tears. It’s about all the things that make us so beautifully human.
The panel will be made of Jann Nelson Zabriskie (Dan Nelson’s wife and caregiver), Jared Callahan (Director and Producer of Sometimes I Shake), Shelly Hoover (co-lead of I AM ALS’ Veterans Team and person living with ALS), and Jill Brattain (Founder of Still Standing, member of I AM ALS’ Veterans, Community Outreach, Community Review, and Clinical Trials Community Teams, and former caregiver).
You will receive a link to watch the movie 24 hours before the event. The link will expire after those 24 hours, so make sure you watch it! The film is 1 hour and 27 minutes long. Watch the trailer here.
We hope you will join us for this incredible experience and share your reactions to the film with us. Please share this invitation with your friends and loved ones and follow the film on Twitter @shake_sometimes.
Here is a synopsis:
Music professor Dan Nelson successfully navigates his life and profession around an ever-increasing shake caused by his Parkinson’s disease. Suddenly, he is devastated by the additional, and terminal, diagnosis of ALS. We journey through Dan’s final days as he decides if he will marry the woman he loves, when to end his career in music, and how to invest the remaining months of his life.
In an inspirational tale full of vigor, humor, and raw honesty, this archival documentary follows Dan’s wild pilgrimage toward death, and along the way, discovering how to fully live.