The BEST episodes directed by Patrick Collerton

The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off
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#1 - The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off

Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries - Season 2004 - Episode 21

A film about Jonny Kennedy, who had a terrible genetic condition called Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) - which meant that his skin literally fell off at the slightest touch, leaving his body covered in agonizing sores and leading to a final fight against skin cancer. In his last months Jonny decided to work with filmmaker Patrick Collerton to document his life and death, and the result was a film, first broadcast in March, that was an uplifting, confounding and provocatively humorous story of a singular man. Not shying away from the grim reality of EB, the film was also a celebration of a life lived to the full.