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13:08 Friday 18
May 2012

The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off

The award-winning documentary comes to DVD!
 
“Few television programmes in history have managed simultaneously to be so hard to watch and so rewarding.” The Guardian
 
Jonny Kennedy is a man with a lot to do. He's got just four months to move home, befriend Nell McAndrew, fly a plane, visit Downing Street – and plan his own funeral.
 
36-year-old Jonny is an extraordinary man with a terrible condition - Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) - which means his skin literally falls off at the slightest touch, leaving his body covered in agonising sores and leading to a final fight against skin cancer.
 
In 2003, Jonny decided to work with filmmaker Patrick Collerton to document his last months in an uplifting, confounding and provocatively humorous story of a singular man.