CANNES, France -- The entertainment industry attracts all sorts of
unusual investors, but the people behind a new movie premiering at the
Cannes Film Festival couldn't be further removed from the Hollywood
scene: They are Kansas doctors eager to tell a story about stem cell
research.
Their fictional film, "Hope," is making its world premiere in the sales
market in Cannes (meaning it is not showing in public and press
screenings), and when the lead physician behind the film says that
lives are at stake, it's not typical show business melodrama.
"America and the world have lost eight years of important research,"
says Dr. Shelley Chawla, a Topeka neurologist who was partly motivated
to make the film after watching his Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
patients suffer from the devastating diseases. "I want to help my
patients," the doctor says.
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