Ozone- a Medical Breakthrough? is a feature length documentary
recently released. Its subject is ozone therapy - a controversial
treatment used in several countries for many years but still largely
ignored by the mainstream.
Ozone is a molecule formed by three atoms of oxygen instead of the
usual two. Ozone therapy consists of pure oxygen mixed with a tiny
amount of ozone. Researchers in many nations have been reporting
benefits from the treatment for a variety of medical conditions
including arthritis, cancer, rheumatism, diabetes, gangrene, strokes
and AIDS, but in North America, the treatment remains unapproved and
largely ignored by the medical mainstream.
Ozone- a Medical Breakthrough? Takes a critical look at the science
behind this controversial treatment. Some people claim ozone has
saved their lives, and a growing number of Canadian and American
doctors are quietly using the treatment, despite the risk of losing
their license and freedom.
Some source material will come from the award-winning film Ozone and
the Politics of Medicine, which was selected as one of the
outstanding documentaries of 1994 by the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences.
The 29 minute film received very limited distribution, and new
information and footage will make a new important feature
documentary.
The documentary is endorsed by the National Film Board of Canada,
but has received no direct funding. It is also supported by
Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society, a Canadian charitable
organization.



THE STORY
After decades of use throughout the world, most North Americans
still remain largely unaware of a medical treatment that is being
used for an astonishing spectrum of disorders including arthritis,
gangrene, cancer, hepatitis and more recently, AIDS. Scientific and
clinical evidence indicate ozone therapy could be a significant
breakthrough in the battle against major deadly diseases, yet there
has been little media attention in North America, and it remains
unapproved and largely ignored by the medical mainstream.
Many people are aware of ozone as an atmospheric layer that protects
us from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, and some also know of
ozone's role in urban air pollution, but few are aware of ozone's
sterilizing properties. A small amount of ozone, mixed with pure
oxygen, has been used for decades to successfully inactivate
bacteria and viruses both in industry and in medicine.
Water quality engineers consider ozone to be the safest and most
effective form of water purification; three thousand cities and
towns around the world use ozone to sterilize their drinking water,
including Paris, Moscow, Montreal, London and Los Angeles.
The principal reference book on the subject, The Use of Ozone in
Medicine (by Dr. R. Viebahn, PhD pub. Haug, 2nd Rev. English Ed.
1994) cites over 300 medical references that support the use of
ozone for more than forty different medical conditions, from bed
sores to brain strokes, herpes, cancer, circulatory disorders and
AIDS. More than 10,000 medical practitioners are now using ozone
therapy extensively worldwide.
A 1980 study ( M. T. Jacobs) verified by the German Society of
Pathologists tallied results from a survey of the treatment of
384,000 patients who had received more than 5 million ozone
applications. 90% of the therapists surveyed reported "good to very
good" results, and the side effects rate was .0007 per application -
one of the lowest of any medical treatment!
Two peer-reviewed journals (Blood 1991 and the Journal of Hematology
1992) have published evidence that ozone will inactivate HIV in
vitro without harming healthy cells. Hospital studies in London
England and Montreal have shown the benefits of ozone use in certain
circulatory conditions.
Russia and Cuba already use ozone extensively in their medical
systems, and these two countries are responsible for some of the
most compelling recent studies. A Russian delegate at the 12th World
Ozone Congress in France (1995) stated that 100,000 patients have
been treated in Russian hospitals.
Canadian researchers have been investigating ozone for more than ten
years through the Ministry of health, Agriculture Canada, the
National Research Council and the Ministry of National Defence. In
1993, the Ministry of National Defence used monkeys to show that
ozone could achieve 100% sterilization of blood contaminated with a
deadly version of HIV, and make it safe for transfusions. Other
research indicates ozone's ability to strengthen key factors of the
immune system including interferon and Interleukin-2. However, ozone
remains unapproved for general medical use, the media have ignored
the issue, and the public remains uninformed.
In the United States the National Institutes of Health, with a
mandate to investigate promising new treatments, has yet to initiate
any ozone research. Despite extensive submitted documentation, the
Food and Drug Administration refuses to recognize any therapeutic
merit for ozone. Until expensive controlled human trials are
conducted, ozone will remain unapproved in the United States.
Every day, people are suffering and dying of treatable diseases, and
thousands are obtaining ozone from doubtful sources in the medical
underground with obvious risks.
The potential impact of ozone therapy on modern medicine is
staggering. No other therapy has reported benefits in so many
different areas of medicine, but much basic science still needs to
be done. Who will do it? And when?


THE PROJECT
Ozone, a Medical Breakthrough? Has now been released in film and
video intended for international television broadcast and
distribution.
Filming began in 1986, and seven years later resulted in a half hour
version, Ozone and the Politics of Medicine. This film won Best
Informative Documentary at the 1994 Atlanta Film Festival, as well
as a Silver Award from the U.S. Educational Film Festival, and the
Chris Award from the 1994 Columbus International Film Festival. Its
greatest distinction was selection as One of the Outstanding
Documentaries of 1994 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences, which publicly presented the film in Los Angeles in March
1996.
Why make a new version? The original half hour film remains un-
broadcast, and the story deserves to be expanded. Filming started up
again in 1995 in England, France, Germany, the United States and
Canada to update the story. Additional trips to Russia and Cuba have
resulted in documentation of fascinating medical results. The
project will also develop a broader and more compelling perspective
directly addressing the concerns of broadcasters.
The essence of the story is the scientific and clinical evidence of
the doctors and scientists who have blazed the trail, as well as the
response from the medical mainstream. We also visit with patients
who believe ozone has saved their lives, as well as with patients
for whom it was too late to help.
The project is so far the only broadcast-quality, feature length
documentary on the subject. The international broadcast and
distribution potential is contingent on properly promoting the
release, with press kits to reviewers and journalists, and follow-up
with newspapers, magazines, radio and TV. The objective of the
campaign is to create greater public awareness of the subject and to
position the story on the international agenda.



KEY PLAYERS
Commodore Mike Shannon, MD,
Former Deputy-Surgeon General of Canada, Coordinator of government
ozone research 1986-1995

Dr. Anthony Fauci
Director, U.S. National Institute For Allergies and Infectious
Diseases, the U.S. government department responsible for AIDS
research

Dr. Michael Carpendale
Former Chief of Rehabilitative Medicine, San Francisco Veteran's
Administration Hospital Co-author, Ozone Inactivates HIV at Non-
Cytotoxic Concentrations (The Journal of Anti viral Research, 1991)

Dr. Bernard Poiesz
Director of Syracuse University Oncology Center, Co-author,
Inactivation of HIV Type 1 by Ozone In Vitro (Blood Journal Oct. 11,
1991, p. 1882)

Dr. Horst Kief
Director, The Kief Clinic
Iffezheim, Germany
Dr. Kief has treated thousands of patients with ozone

Dr. R. Viebahn, PhD
Author, The Use of Ozone in Medicine
(2nd Rev. English Edition 1994)
Director, Hansler Company
Iffezheim, Germany
Dr. Manual Gomez Moraleda
Former Director,
The Ozone Research Center of Cuba

Mr. Ed Marshall
Current President and CEO
Medizone International Inc.
Stinson Beach, CA




FILMED HIGHLIGHTS
• A visit to the William Hitt Clinic in Tijuana, Mexico, in
October 2000 includes patient testimonials and an interview with Dr.
Hitt, who has successfully used ozone to profoundly reduce viral
load for more than 40 Hepatitis-C sufferers.
• Segments from Europe, including the 1995 World Ozone
Congress in France: interviews with delegates from France, England,
Spain, Russia, Cuba and visits to major clinics and profiles on
specific patients.
• A visit to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (annual
budget $11 billion) and an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci,
Director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious
Diseases.
• A conversation with Commodore Mike Shannon, MD, Canada's
former Deputy Surgeon General, who has coordinated over two million
of dollars worth of research. "I firmly believe that ozone therapy
has a valuable role to play in the medical management of AIDS."
• State-of-the-Art animation showing the cellular interaction
of ozone with components of the immune system, bacteria and viruses.
Created digitally and then transferred over to 16mm film for the
highest quality.
• A look at alternative education: respected U.S. ozone
specialist, Dr. Frank Shallenberger leads a roomful of medical
professionals through the step-by-step application of ozone
autohemotherapy.
• A visit to Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., where Senator
Tom Harkin is leading a crusade for greater access to alternative
medicine and for a larger allotment of federal money for the
research of alternative treatments. He was partly responsible for
the creation of the NIHΉs Office of Alternative Medicine in 1992.





THE PRODUCTION TEAM
• Producer/ Director
Geoffrey Rogers has 15 years documentary production experience on
six continents. He is a graduate of the University of British
Columbia Film and TV Studies Degree Program, with additional studies
in art history, philosophy and theater. He started the ozone project
15 years ago, and has conducted the principal research, fund
raising, production and distribution ever since. Other directing
credits include the Public Advocacy TV campaign produced by the
Media Foundation (16/35mm) and Planting Teak , on Costa Rica tree
farming.
His work as a cinematographer includes, the Variety Club Telethon Ad
Campaign (35mm) Snowboarding Japan 1996-2000, Howling at the Sun
(16mm), Quiet Heroes (Beta) as well as The Anti Vaccine Movement
(BetaSP). He was also assistant director and cinematographer for the
award-winning National Film Board of Canada production, The Rise and
Fall of American Business Culture (PBS broadcast).
• Associate Producer
Chuck Wintner is an acclaimed California film producer and
distributor of health-related documentaries which include Victims,
Angel Dust and the classic What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About
Cancer (hosted by Eddie Albert), which won Best Investigative
Documentary at the 1992 Houston Film Festival and was Silver
Medalist at the 1992 New York Film Festival.
• Editor
Lara Mazur has edited more than forty features and documentaries
which have received more than fifty major awards and nominations
including Genies, Geminis, Golden Sheafs and other awards at
international festivals. Credit titles include, The Burning Season,
Cadillac Girls, The Tramp at the Door and The David Milgaard Story.



PROJECT ADVISORS
• Production Advisor
Kalle Lasn has produced documentaries which have won awards at more
than twenty major festivals, including The American Film Festival,
The Chicago International Film Festival and The Competition for
Films on Japan. His projects have been produced primarily through
the National Film Board of Canada, and screened on PBS, CBC, NHK,
and other networks internationally. Titles include Crime in Japan,
The Rise and Fall of American Business Culture, Rituals, Children of
the Tribe and Japan, Inc: Lessons for North America.
He is Executive Director of The Media Foundation, an award-winning
public media advocacy group which has been the subject of stories by
The New York Times, the BBC and Paris-TV, and whose magazine
Adbusters has won the prestigious Utne Readers Award for Service
Journalism.
• Medical Advisor
Dr. R. Hayward Rogers, MD has more than forty years of hands-on
medical experience with an emphasis on nutrition and holistic
therapies, and was the first medical doctor in Canada to use ozone
therapy. He has degrees in sociology, social work and medicine from
the University of British Columbia, where he is Assistant Clinical
Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine. He has won the
Canadian Lifestyle Award from the Canadian Ministry of Health, as
well as The Bronze Award the highest honor for community service
from the Greater Vancouver Medical Association. He is also Founder
of the Center for Integrated Healing, the first clinic of its kind
in Western Canada to receive government funding for a facility
advocating the use of integrated healing modalities. In June 2001,
he was awarded the Order of British Columbia as a pioneer of
alternative cancer therapies.
• Medical Advisor
Dr. Michael Carpendale, MD is former Chief of Rehabilitative
Medicine at the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Francisco
and has conducted ozone research for 23 years. In 1991 he co-
authored the landmark paper Ozone Inactivates HIV at Non-Cytotoxic
Levels (with Dr. J Greenberg, Journal of Anti-viral Research Vol.16
Number 3). He was also chairman of the medical sessions of the 11th
World Ozone Congress held in San Francisco Sept. 1993.
THE FILM'S AESTHETIC
The look is clear and unambiguous. Cinema veritι has in its essence
the raw power of the documentary form. We have conflicting testimony
from expert witnesses, the emotional struggle against illness and
pain, and a growing political scandal that combine for an intense
visual experience.
The varying conditions under which the footage was collected define
the scope, integrity and perspective of the project. 16mm footage of
interviews contrasts with grainier video clips from TV news shows
and foreign sources. State-of-the-art digital animation and graphics
will combine with interviews and reality footage to create a richer
texture, and a sense of being there in the midst of an international
story that is still unfolding today. As the program develops,
tension steadily increases and related information heightens the
stakes of a genuine international drama.
The components of emotion, scientific discovery, and political
ramifications all add power to the story line. The pro and con, the
give and take will crystallize a situation that has huge
implications for modern medicine and the health of millions of
people.
Time is a major player in this documentary. Through metaphor and the
actual passing of time we see fifteen years of information-gathering
unfold in 58 minutes, with compelling and growing tension. The
audience will actually see the passing of time on the faces of some
of the key players. Three participants have died since the project
began, adding poignant emphasis.
This is truly an issue with life and death consequences.
Why release this project on film? Although the project has limited
theatrical potential, the credibility and exposure that major
international film festivals provide can be invaluable to this
particular type of subject matter. The prestige of selection by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would not have been
possible for the original project without a film print.


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