2012 · Film & Health Storytelling
HowToDiabetes
A short film and storytelling project about living with Type 1 diabetes — built to help newly diagnosed kids and parents see the day-to-day reality past the medical pamphlets.
Overview
Telling the part the pamphlet leaves out.
When someone is newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, the literature handed to them tells the medical story — A1Cs, ratios, infusion sets. It rarely captures the human story: what the first month actually feels like, how friendships shift, how routines re-form.
HowToDiabetes was a short film built to fill that gap — a calm, honest, first-person walk through the daily mechanics and the quiet adjustments that come with a chronic diagnosis.
My role
What I did.
- Concept, script, and narrative structure.
- Directed shoots across home, clinic, and field settings.
- Edited the cut and finished sound and color.
- Distributed the film online for newly diagnosed families.
Featured
The film.
HowToDiabetes · Vimeo
Stills
Frames.
Results
The numbers.
Lessons
What this taught me.
Storytelling beats statistics when the goal is understanding. The right two minutes of film can do what a stack of pamphlets cannot — give a stranger a felt sense of someone else's life.
That principle still shapes how I write product pages, brand copy, and onboarding flows today.
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