Me, My Film, and My Massive Brain Tumor

Here are two things about me: I recently directed and co-wrote a film starring Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, and Callum Turner. It’s called “Eternity” and it’s set in the afterlife. I also recently had an apple-sized tumor removed from my head.

Back in July, my partner, Stephen, and I were about to go on a long-overdue holiday before the premiere of my film in Toronto that September. From script to screen, Eternity had consumed four years of our life, so we needed to celebrate it. In the weeks leading up to this, however, I had been beset by migraines. I suffered with severe vomit-inducing headaches for years, which doctors always dismissed as stress. But this new migraine was accompanied by terrible double vision. So the day before our flight, my partner took me to the eye emergency c