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Thu Jan 15

Astrid Media presents

The Accidental Advocate

A story of love, hope, and the politics of stem cell research

Location	Date and Time
Embarcadero Center San Francisco's Financial and Waterfront Districts San Francisco, CA 94111 map cross street: Running from Battery to Drumm Streets, in between Sacramento and Clay Streets district: Embarcadero	Thu Jan 15 (7:00 PM) - The film is 93 minutes long

Description

When Claude Gerstle, a surgeon and athlete, suffers a tragic bicycle accident that leaves him paralyzed from the neck down, he and his daughter, Jessica, discover hope in the politicized area of science called stem cells. "The Accidental Advocate" is a wheelchair odyssey of a father and daughter who track down the thinkers, the politicians, the crusaders and the naysayers in an effort to understand the potential of the science and why a political quagmire is stalling a cure.
The film sorts the hope from the hype, the ideas from the ideology. The promise of stem cell research has united diverse patients and families — rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, religious and secular, a group of millions of Americans — creating a very vocal national movement to reverse limits on the federal funding of the research. The advocates appearing in the film range from the famous — including Parkinson's sufferer Michael J. Fox, to the unsung — including Michelle Mundt.