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This week, Pierce Brosnan and Kaya Scodelario star in the action adventure fantasy The King’s Daughter, with Brosnan as King Louis XIV, and Scodelario as the titular daughter, who must stop her father upon discovering his peculiar scheme for immortality- spolier alert: it involves murdering mermaids!

We’ve also got the powerful Gold Rush-era love story Redeeming Love, the heartfelt drama The Tiger Rising – about a boy (Christian Convery) whose life is changed forever after finding a tiger in a cage in the woods, and Salt in My Soul, a doc based on Mallory Smith’s posthumously published memoir about living with cystic fibrosis.

Holding onto their biggest hopes, dreams and happiness amidst their struggle with invisible illness is a powerful journey people can truly relate to during the current devastating COVID-19 pandemic.

The worst of times about CF is told emotionally.
The opening credits of “Salt In My Soul” explain how Mallory Smith (1992-2017) secretly recorded her struggle with cystic fibrosis (CF) in her diaries, computer, and audio recordings, and how in her final hours, she was given an experimental treatment, which would help fight against superbugs.

At the age of three Mallory Smith was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. As her dad put it, she was given a “death sentence.” Mallory refused to let her disease hold her back, however, and she spent the rest of her life looking for a way to survive her diagnosis.

Reading from her journals about living with cystic fibrosis for roughly twenty years, Mallory Smith sounds by turns pensive and fluid, her words and mood cresting and crashing in waves like the sea where she loved to surf.

Director, Will Battersby & Diane Shader Smith discuss with Jan Price their new documentary, “Salt In My Soul” – in L.A. and N.Y theaters on January 21st!

Salt in My Soul tells the remarkable story of Mallory Smith, whose memoirs by the same name were published posthumously to offer equal parts solace and sobering reality as she details her life with cystic fibrosis.

Based on Mallory Smith’s posthumously published memoir of the same name, SALT IN MY SOUL, the film offers a rare look inside the mind of a young woman trying to live fully while dying.

When she was just three years old, Mallory Smith was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. What transpires in director Will Battersby’s documentary, Salt in My Soul, is a family’s fight for their daughter’s life.