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| ====== Pain Warriors Video Documentary ====== | |
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| A Visionary Media Inc. Film By Producers Tina Petrova & Director Eugene Weis | |
| eloquently weaves together heart - breaking stories of an all but invisible demographic: | |
| those who struggle to stay alive daily, amidst life long chronic pain & chronic illness. | |
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| To summarize the documentary //Pain Warriors//: The Other Side of the Opiod Crisis. | |
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| Largely invisible, sunned and disbelieved, //Pain Warriors// enters into the desperate lives of pain patents fighting for their very survival; families [such as mine] torn apart by suicide and the troubled worlds of compassionate doctors who stand up for them, even at the cost of incarceration. | |
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| The late Karen Paddock, that hosts this site, is one of the five stories. This is //**NOT**// a warm & fuzzy movie to watch. See the Testimonials below as to why. | |
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| ====== Locations to Watch ====== | |
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| Watch //Pain Warriors// at one of the following locations: | |
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| * [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/pain-warriors/id1506122098|iTunes]] The trailer here starts with Karen writing the book, //[[http://mystory.kpaddock.com|Karen's Journal]]//, that she did not know she was writing. | |
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| * [[https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Pain_Warriors?id=Ud85kd5e-ZY.P|Google Play Store]] | |
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| * [[https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Warriors-Dr-Mark-Ibsen/dp/B0874BD64D/|Amazon Prime]] | |
| * [[https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Warriors-Tina-Petrova/dp/B084WPJW9L|Amazon DVD]] | |
| * [[https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Warriors-Blu-ray-Tina-Petrova/dp/B084QN6MFD|Amazon Blu-ray]] | |
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| * [[https://vimeo.com/ondemand/painwarriors|Watch Pain Warriors from anywhere in the world, via Vimeo On Demand]] | |
| * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuFanVvz0JI|Short trailer on YouTube]] | |
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| Note that the cost may vary with your location and which of the above sources you choose. The distributor Gravitas Ventures sets the price, we have no control over it. | |
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| ====== Internet Movie Database ====== | |
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| After watching **please** write a review for us on [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8438478/|Internet Movie Database (IMDb)]], to lift our ratings, or ask friends who have viewed the film to do so. That link also shows the current reviews. | |
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| We have signed //Pain Warriors// to Gravitas Ventures distribution to help us to get it to wide audience, and positive reviews will help us get //Pain Warriors// on Netflix and/or PBS etc. | |
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| ====== What is a PAIN WARRIOR? ====== | |
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| A Pain Warrior is someone : child, mother , father, brother sister, friend- who plods on day in and day out, in chronic illness or chronic pain, with no hope of lasting relief or a cure in sight. Living in intractable pain is not for sissies. Intractable pain is usually life long. | |
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| Those of us who wake up each day and go to sleep in pain, are like an elite group of Navy Seals; we battle the demon of pain with all our strength , gather our courage to not give up, minute to minute -even though many of us just want to lay down and surrender the battle. | |
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| Other than a few loved ones beside us, no one really knows what we go through and no one really cares... least of all society at large. We are invisible ...we are shunned... we are misunderstood. | |
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| Making this film is the FIRST STEP in ADVOCATING FOR OUR DEMOGRAPHIC in a highly VISIBLE and AUDIBLE way. | |
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| Our new feature film that will expose the underbelly of the BEAST OF PAIN . | |
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| We are PAIN WARRIORS. | |
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| ====== Testimonials ====== | |
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| These testimonials are from the few people that took me up on the offer to watch the new documentary //Pain Warriors//, of which Karen's story is a part, before its public release. I'm hoping //Pain Warriors// will raise awareness of the issues of Chronic Pain, CSF Leaks and is worthy of all whom suffer... | |
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| <blockquote>I am off from the first weekend of my show season and made the time to watch this. Wow, just wow! I have spent my whole life talking to people who have either physical or emotional pain. I know that if you just scratch the surface of someone who has a seemingly normal life, you will find a different story just waiting to be told. I didn't know it was soooo pervasive! | |
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| The idea that it is 100M Americans living with chronic pain is mind-boggling. The fact that each one of those touches at least a few other lives implies that the whole nation is dramatically impacted by chronic pain. I'm assuming that number represents physical pain and doesn't even touch the ones with issues like anxiety and depression.... which in my observation is pretty consuming these days as well.... | |
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| I must admit, I cried numerous times during this video. The most during your segments, because I feel like I know a small part of you and what you have gone through.... | |
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| Of course, all the stories are sad and tragic and American life and the medical community has let so many down.... is there a point of return? | |
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| Thank you for sharing this early with me. I hope of people see it after the festival seasons and awareness is raised. And maybe, just maybe, some doctors will examine their practices. And maybe, just maybe, families will stop avoiding "the one" who always looks well, but is always having a health struggle and labeling it all in their minds....</blockquote> | |
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| <blockquote>Bob, | |
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| I just watched the documentary. It’s powerful, and brought me to tears several times, not only you telling of Karen’s suicide but the boy and his sister, Hunter and Willow. It’s humbling, what people get through, or don’t get through. | |
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| As an asthmatic, I have had a lifetime of a repetitive -- but far from continuous, and not always particularly painful – condition. I do know how even the sheer persistence of the condition can wear you down; not just the condition but the persistence of the condition, making normal life difficult or impossible. | |
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| People who haven’t experienced it, themselves or second-hand, really don’t know how to understand it. For people who take normal health for granted, it may require a great effort of the imagination. This film may help some of them make that effort. Let’s hope so. | |
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| Thanks for letting me see it.</blockquote> | |
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| <blockquote>Dear Bob, | |
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| I just watched the entire film and found it very moving, very effective, and well-done as far as my knowledge of films go. It was so engrossing, at times brought tears and I think really educated the average person like me who, had I not known your story earlier, would not have been anywhere near understanding this problem. I do have a relative who has spoken of chronic pain and probably didn’t give her enough full awareness as I would know from this film). Thank you so much for sharing it with me. I really think this should be part of a world premier festival. There wasn’t time to mention that your having shared your knowledge with medical people to help inform medical folks more and hope to keep informed of how that goes at...</blockquote> | |
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| ====== Reviews ====== | |
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| * [[http://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=33600|Pharmacist Steve]] | |
| * [[https://www.painfullyliving.com/2020/05/a-war-cry-pain-warriors-will-not-be.html|A War Cry! Pain Warriors Will Not Be Silencedby Pain Fully Living]] | |
| * [[https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2020/5/25/pain-warriors-a-civil-rights-movement-for-our-time|Pain News Network: Pain Warriors a civil rights movement for our time]] | |
| * [[https://prizewarriors.com/pain-warriors-a-chronic-pain-documentary|"... I’d like to say that I had the pleasure of watching Pain Warriors, but I’d be lying. I was lucky enough to see the documentary film by Tina Petrova and Eugene Weis recently, but it certainly wasn’t a pleasant experience. I found this documentary terribly difficult watch. It is certainly not badly made or directed. It’s just a little too close to home for me.... " - - Review of Pain Warriors by a suffer of Chronic Pain in the UK. | |
| See comment below for where to watch it.]] | |
| * [[https://fedupwithfatigue.com/pain-warriors-review/|Review by someone that has CSF Leaks.]] | |
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| ====== People in the poster ====== | |
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| This is the green poster at the top of the page. | |
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| Top left: Hunter and Dr. Jacobs \\ | |
| Top right: Dr Mark Ibsen \\ | |
| Middle left: The late Sherri L Little \\ | |
| Very middle: Master Lee Chi Wai \\ | |
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| Middle Right: Lisa Blackstock \\ | |
| Bottom Left: Yanekah \\ | |
| Bottom right: Bob Paddock \\ | |
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| ====== How did we get here? ====== | |
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| This is the producer Tina Petrova explaining how this documentary got its start. | |
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| ====== Tee Shirts ====== | |
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| Yes, people it is a real movie, and real movies have tee shirts: :-) | |
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| [[https://www.zazzle.com/pain_warriors_movie_tshirt-235703400634851806|Buy Female Tee Shirt here]], | |
| [[https://www.zazzle.com/pain_warriors_movie_t_shirt-235412568233952504|Buy Male Tee Shirt here.]] | |
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| Buy a Tee Shirt to show your support of those with Chronic Pain. The funds are going toward paying of the debts from the production of the documentary. | |
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| ====== More Information ====== | |
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| [[http://kpaddock.com/doku.php/book|Details on Karen's Journal]] that may be read freely [[http://mystory.kpaddock.com|here]]. | |
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| * {{ :pwmovie:pain_warriors_epk_tp2.pdf |Details about the movie production [PDF]}}. | |
| * {{ :pwmovie:pw_pr_.pdf |Press Release [PDF]}}. | |
| * {{ :pwmovie:proof_d012418_postcard_painwarriors_4x6.pdf |Postcard Ready for printing [PDF]}}. | |
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