DEFINING PAIN

(2015)

As part of Community Voices documentary workshop at Chapman University's Dodge College of film and media arts, Defining Pain is a short film following the life of young female artist, Lauren Potts. Lauren manages her blossoming career in the art world, drums in an up-and-coming band, "NightAir", and finds the time to also push herself physically, all while battling an invisible disease called CRMO (chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis). Throughout the course of this short film, Lauren defines what living with pain means to her and explains why her illness will never hold her back from doing the impossible.