Vascular Malformations — Part 1: A Calling

Kids with vascular malformations suffer from deformities that can be fatal but are often misdiagnosed and left untreated. This short documentary tells the story of a boy with a severe craniofacial anomaly, and one research team's efforts to develop a cure.  

Interviewee: Dr. Arin Greene, Harvard Medical School and Department of Plastic Surgery at Children's Hospital Boston

This is part 1. In part 2, Dr. Greene goes into more depth about the science and possible therapies: Part 2: The Angiogenesis Hypothesis.

2009

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.