Productions 2010

Sleeping Beauty

1 x 60 minutes for BBC3

Producer/Director: Emily Smith
Executive: Lucy Willis

Observational documentary following the extraordinary life of sixteen year old Louisa Ball who suffers from the extremely rare Kleine Levin syndrome, also known as Sleeping Beauty syndrome.  Louisa can fall asleep for up to two weeks at a time – on the brink of adulthood and with her GCSE exams looming this is a film about a young girl missing out on life – and her father’s desperate search for a cure.