What is it to be alive?

Breathing is a passionate documentary film directed by Bafta winning fiction director Morag McKinnon & Grierson nominated documentary director Emma Davie following the final months in life of their old friend Neil Platt, who is dying from Motor Neurone Disease. The film interweaves the wider story of our genetic code, and the hope of finding a cure through major developments in genetic science by Prof Chris Shaw.

How can we control our own destiny?