CF Champion | Documentary Film Crew Louisville
Cameron was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at five weeks old. By the time this video was made, he was nine — running cross-country, living like any other kid his age, and starting every single morning with 35 minutes in a percussive vest, three back-to-back nebulizer treatments, and a feeding tube that ran through the night. Nobody watching him run would know any of it.
CRAFT — Cystic Fibrosis Research and Treatment — is a Louisville-based nonprofit dedicated to raising private donations to fund CF research and, ultimately, a cure. This piece was produced to put a face on that mission. Cameron is that face.
We told Cameron's story through his mother — her voice, her pride, and the quiet weight of managing a child's serious illness while watching him sprint across a finish line like nothing is wrong. It's the kind of subject that could easily become maudlin, but the video earns its emotion honestly, staying close to the specific details of Cameron's daily routine and letting those details do the work. The percussive vest that shakes the whole house. The three consecutive nebulizer masks before school. And Cameron's own words: "When we have a cure for CF, I don't have to do this vest every morning."
For a nonprofit, this is exactly what fundraising video needs to be — concrete, personal, and impossible to forget. The goal isn't awareness. It's action. And that requires a story with a real person at the center of it.
This piece reflects our long history of healthcare and nonprofit video production in Louisville, Kentucky, and our ability to handle sensitive human stories with the care they deserve.
About This Project
Client: CRAFT — Cystic Fibrosis Research and Treatment
Type: Nonprofit fundraising film, patient story
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Services: On-location production, documentary-style filming, editing
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Video Transcript:
WEBVTT Cameron loves running.
I love to watch him run.
He amazes me. With all the struggles he has with lungs and everything, he can run forever.
Cameron was born November 8th, 2006. When he was five weeks old, he was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.
Today, he's a nine-year-old that's happy and runs cross-country and does everything that any other nine-year-old would do.
Nobody else would know any of the stuff that he does here at home.
Cameron has several treatments he has to do every day. About 4:00 in the morning, his feeding tube is done.
He has to do 35 minutes of a percussive vest that by the end, it's shaking the whole house. He has to wear a nebulizer mask that is a mist full of salt, and right after that, he has to do another one, and then right after that, he has to do a third one. He acts like a normal kid while he does all this stuff. Cameron, look at this.
Medicine has come an extremely long way, and the medicine that is available now is all funded by private donations like us and all of the families that are donating. Craft's all about raising money to find a cure for cystic fibrosis. Cameron talks about having a cure for CF all the time. "When we have a cure for CF, I don't have to do this vest every morning." And I say, "Yep. Hopefully one day, Cameron."
When Cameron crosses the finish line, I am overwhelmed. I'm always amazed. I just am proud of him.
He's faced with so many challenges in his life, and yet he still is just like any other kid, and he's a champion for that.