"You may walk into a screening of I REMEMBER ME thinking you're going to see a film about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but actually the film transcends the disease and speaks to something even more universal - anyone who has ever endured any difficulty will be forever touched by the experience."
- Elizabeth Karlsberg, Santa Barbara News-Press

"A whistle blower at the Centers for Disease Control revealed that $13 million was illegally diverted from CFS. Yet TV comics still joke about the disease as a form of laziness. Ironic, isn't it, that Kim Snyder wasn't too lazy to make this film while the CDC and the medical establishment are only now stirring into action."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

"Simultaneously beautiful and haunting - Demystifies Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with a compelling, almost palpable force."
- Elizabeth Karlsberg, Santa Barbara New-Press

"A compelling documentary that combines heartbreaking and soul-stirring personal stories with investigative reporting about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Very affecting - I couldn't stop watching."
- Ali Joseph, TNT' Rough Cut

"I now believe in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I was one of many who somehow absorbed the notion that it was an imaginary illness. I am ashamed of myself"
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

"Fueled by the same rage at an unresponsive system that has birthed many a great social documentary, filmmaker Kim Snyder has taken up the mantle for the over 800,000 sufferers of CFS. Afflicted with CFS herself, Snyder interweaves her own years of fighting with the stories of others who face the same challenge."
- The Screening Room, New York City

Synopsis (provided by the film's distributor)

Between 1984 and 1986 over 300 people in Lake Tahoe, Nevada became acutely ill. Over fifteen years later, many of them have not fully recovered, individuals across the country have become ill, and the cause remains a mystery. Herein begins the bizarre tale of an elusive malady that in 1988 the US Centers for Disease Control named Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (aka CFS, CFIDS, ME).

I Remember Me is the first full-length documentary to explore the controversial and mysterious history of CFS, an illness that, according to the CDC, is now forty times greater in prevalence than previously estimated.

"How do you come to know fact?", the filmmaker asks. Without scientific proof, she concludes "you're left with personal anecdote". So Snyder sets off on a four-year journey to investigate. Through poignant testimonies of dozens of individuals - including film director Blake Edwards (Pink Panther, 10), and Olympic gold Medalist and Women's World Cup Soccer star Michelle Akers, whose brilliant career was recently cut short by the illness, (set to the evocative music of legendary jazz Musician Keith Jarrett who was also sidelined by the illness for four years) - a chilling human drama unfolds which continues to baffle scientists worldwide.

In her search for answers, Snyder unearths clusters of the illness dating back to 1936. Residents of a sleepy Florida town are united forty years later to reflect on the illness that devastated hundreds in 1956 and was never diagnosed. We hear strikingly similar accounts from doctors in Incline Village, Nevada and Lyndonville, New York, a rural town where more than 200 people became ill in the mid-80's.

The story builds to an emotional climax as Steven, the severely disabled Connecticut teen, attempts to make his high school graduation by way of ambulance and gurney.

More than an account of an epidemic unfolding, "I Remember Me" speaks to the universal themes of loss, human perseverance, and our difficulties in grappling with uncertainty. 

Film "I Remember Me". It's $30.99 plus $5 shipping. Call 1-800-343-5540 or go to http://www.zeitgeistvideo.com

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