Out of Breath

Director: George Nierenberg

Producer: Susan Margolin

Out of Breath takes an intimate and emotionally engaging look into the personal struggles of people whose lives have been severely impacted by sleep apnea. Their stories reveal how this stealthy disease has not only threatened their health but disrupted their marriages, families and careers.

The film interweaves thought-provoking conversations with preeminent sleep experts, examining the huge toll that sleep apnea has taken on communities and society as a whole. The film investigates the medical industry’s inadequate response to this public health crisis and explores the lack of treatment innovations. Out of Breath will put sleep apnea squarely where it belong – in the public eye and on the minds of health care professionals, so that the medical field will finally focus on giving one billion sleep apnea sufferers the up-to-date treatments they so urgently need.