Samson
Dogs with full paralysis are offered two options: Fusion surgery or euthanasia. Man's best friend deserves more options.
Samson Final edit for release
Category: Documentary
Title: Samson
Synopsis by: Chandra Vandry
Length of film: 66 minutes, 58 seconds
Chandra Vandry and her husband William, a couple from Austin Texas are researchers and own a non profit research foundation searching cures for Chronic pain diseases, Traumatic Brain injuries, Eye diseases, and PTSD. Samson documentary gives hope, and dealing with Canine paralysis. They are also filmmakers of the award winning documentary, Got pain?
Samson Documentary faces the dark issues of paralysis with dogs, and few solutions other than fusion surgery which does not reverse paralysis, main or euthanasia. William and Chandra Vandry faced a challenging issue with their own dog Samson, who had suffered from Canine ‘stroke’, or FCE (fibrocartilagenous embolism). The neurological Veterinarian report read a lesion was localized to the C1-T2 spinal cord segments related to Myelopathy, which is an injury to the spinal cord due to severe compression that may result from trauma, congenital stenosis, degenerative disease or disc herniation. Samson had stage five or full paralysis.
In the film, Chandra speaks about Pottingers cat study, animal nutrition, and cheaper grade dog foods regarding dog’s health. She also discusses how is FCE treated in Veterinary science.
Veterinarian neurologist’s diagnosis in the film discussion on Samson's paralysis were not positive.
Ninety-six percent of recurrences developed within 3 years after surgery.
Samson film discusses Canine joint diseases history, and also giving hope to all pet owner’s with paralyzed dogs.
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Chandra VandryDirectorGot pain? documentary
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Chandra VandryWriterGot pain?
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William VandryWriterGot pain?
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Chandra VandryProducerGot pain?
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William VandryProducerGot pain?
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Chandra VandryKey CastGot pain?
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William VandryKey CastGot pain?
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Project Type:Documentary
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Runtime:1 hour 6 minutes 58 seconds
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Completion Date:February 22, 2020
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Chandra Vandry is a filmmaker with her husband William from Austin, Texas. Chandra co-directed the award winning documentary Got pain?, which will be released in 2020.
"I love animals, and for William and I to make this film compresses tears, hopelessness, hopefulness, and I hope and believe will leave a brighter feeling for paralyzed dog owners in the future."