The film, which she worked on with her partner, cinematographer Guy Mossman, focuses on a single human trial conducted by ViaCyte, an American biotech company that’s pioneering a stem cell-derived cell replacement. “Toronto doctors on track of diabetes cure” was the headline for the lead story in the Toronto Star on March 22, 1922. Frederick) Banting and (Charles) Best, whose discovery of insulin a century ago was front-page news.
“I don’t think that a functional cure will be available to the public in five years, because you have to go through multiple phases of human trials before that happens.” “I think that the diabetes community might argue that I’m propagating false hope, but I fully believe that within the next five years there will be a press conference akin to what happened with Banting and Best,” said Hepner. In the past few years, though, thanks to the director’s latest project, Hepner’s starting to think a cure might be on the horizon. Hepner says that, within the diabetes community, people joke that a cure is always five years off. When documentary filmmaker Lisa Hepner was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 21, she was told the cure was likely five years away.
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